Editorial Note: This post is by Adam Urato. There are other Adam Urato posts on RxISK (see Antidepressants and Autism and Autism Awareness Day) about the use of antidepressants in pregnancy and by women of child-bearing years. This post appeared first on Mad in America. The image is from an article by Gideon Koren that seriously proposes putting the image of a pregnant woman on … [Read more...] about Massacre of the Innocents
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Better to Die RxISKing It 2
Editorial Note: This post continues from Better to Die RxISKing It. This plea for a Peoples' Movement with those suffering adverse effects on drugs reporting them was the substance of a talk given a month ago to the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry in Los Angeles. Venus in furs Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs was published in 1870. It … [Read more...] about Better to Die RxISKing It 2
Better to Die RxISKing It
Editorial Note: This post continues from last week's Persecution of Heretics. It's about how only a Popular Movement with those suffering adverse effects on drugs speaking up can save us now. It adapts a talk given a month ago to the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry in Los Angeles. It loses something without its slides. But it was recorded and may be … [Read more...] about Better to Die RxISKing It
The Persecution of Heretics
Editorial Note: For the past two months while there have been a series of authors on RxISK posts, David Healy has run a Persecution of Heretics series on davidhealy.org. The heresy is that drugs come with side effects - that they are poisons that can be put to close to magical use if both doctor and patient know they are dealing with a poison - See Persecution: Professional SUI … [Read more...] about The Persecution of Heretics
Pink Viagra or Pink Elephant?
On October 27 – 28 the FDA held a “Patient Focused Drug Development Meeting” on the issue of Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD). It’s one of about of a dozen such meetings they’re hosting over the next two years in what’s billed as an effort to be more responsive to patients. Most will focus on conditions that are life-threatening (sickle-cell anemia, Parkinson’s, breast cancer) … [Read more...] about Pink Viagra or Pink Elephant?
Rethink at Rethink?
Editorial Note: This post from James Bennett of RxISK's team explores the increasingly problematic area of sexual functioning on antidepressants and other drugs. The efforts to take down the Wikipedia page on Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) suggest that the sexual side effects of antidepressants worry industry more than anything else. Why this should be is something that … [Read more...] about Rethink at Rethink?
The Tooth Fairy
Editorial note: While many people in the UK make it a point of honor to say they never read The Mail, when it comes to its health and femail pages The Mail can be quite astonishing. For some of us who have followed the stories on RxISK linking SSRI use to alcoholism, the Mail's pages feature an extraordinary parade of women crashing cars and killing others, or divorced by … [Read more...] about The Tooth Fairy
If Anxious Check Drugs: PPIs and Diuretics
Editorial Note: One of us had a very successful colleague who over time became more and more anxious and sought advice. It was difficult to see why this person should become anxious suggesting there was a physical factor involved. Repeated physical investigations showed nothing, except low magnesium. The only possibility left seemed to be the PPI, the person had been put on for … [Read more...] about If Anxious Check Drugs: PPIs and Diuretics
Asexuality: A Curious Parallel
Editorial Note: This post is by James Bennett who is organizing RxISK research on PSSD. In the last two decades there has been an explosion in the number of children being prescribed a range of drugs including antidepressants, antipsychotics and stimulants. There is also a dramatic increase in the number of children exposed to these drugs, especially antidepressants, before … [Read more...] about Asexuality: A Curious Parallel
Life on Drugs
Editorial Note: This extraordinary account of what it can be like to live on psychotropic drugs came by email out of the blue from Jim Seko. For the record, it looks from here that Jim cannot have had schizophrenia. His original problem almost has to be an acute and transient psychosis. The tragedy of these states is that they sometimes do lead to a life dulled by … [Read more...] about Life on Drugs