This post continues with the Lonesome Heroines theme - Consent. It needs reading in conjunction with Peter Selley's Coming Clean on Neonatal Deaths. The fact these posts deal with vaccines is semi-irrelevant - they are about a development model, a playbook, set up with SSRIs that industry now apply across all products. Our Bodies, Ourselves, a book by the Boston Women's … [Read more...] about Uterine Roulette and Consent
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Lonesome Heroines, Forgotten Women and Consent
This post needs reading along with Silent Health and Silencing Safety. The Forgotten Woman in Silent Health is the Lonesome Heroine here. Informed Consent Someone, seriously injured by a medicine he had taken, got in touch this week asking if it was possible to take an action against his doctor or in some way get compensation for his drug inflicted damage. He was sure he had … [Read more...] about Lonesome Heroines, Forgotten Women and Consent
Silencing Doctors Silencing Safety
This post runs hand in hand with Women and Children First by Peter Selley. Both posts link to a BMJ Consent Article and Vaccine contre la bronchiolite: Pfizer Essais en zone d'ombre by Ariane Denoyel for Blast, a French investigative journalism unit. Peter Selley first contacted me in April 2020. As I now know Peter has an impeccable background in common sense. He and his … [Read more...] about Silencing Doctors Silencing Safety
Empathy for Drug Induced Injuries
Dr. Healy, I am writing to you after receiving distressing messages from my son, who asked for help with regards to names of specialists or supports to help him with his extreme PSSD condition. This may seem like helicopter parenting, but I feel compelled to write in regards to the devastating impact your message had on him. He is in utter despair over what has happened. … [Read more...] about Empathy for Drug Induced Injuries
A Medical Triumph SSRIs and Alcohol
Over the last decade David Healy.org and RxISK.org have both featured a series of posts about SSRIs and alcoholism and about Anne Marie Kelly. There has been Out of my Mind Driven to Drink and related posts, Petra's Story and Every Drink Spiked on DavidHealy as well as Driven to Drink: Antidepressants and Craving for Alcohol, Prescription Drugs Spiking your Cocktail, and Did … [Read more...] about A Medical Triumph SSRIs and Alcohol
Freeing Teresa: The Quality of Care
Samizdat is co-publishing Freeing Teresa with Franke and Bill James. There is a complementary Freeing Teresa: Human Rights Should not be Disabled post on davidhealy.org. There has also been a prior RxISK post about Teresa - Human Rights Should be for Everyone. Today we will also add a Human Rights Category to RxISK posts. Freeing Teresa is a true story about Franke’s … [Read more...] about Freeing Teresa: The Quality of Care
Treatment Complications: Good Expert Needed
I recently had a request for input on akathisia and withdrawal related issues that for some reason charmed me into responding. The back and forth however began to sink into a quicksand that can put me off responding. There is an old aphorism about experts – a true expert is s/he who knows how little s/he knows. Sounds cute but it’s not what anyone who consults someone they … [Read more...] about Treatment Complications: Good Expert Needed
When the Personal becomes Political
This short talk was delivered 10 days ago. The video is Healy - Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction is here. Slide 1: One of these two is on an antidepressant and unable to make love. Like SSRIs and Homicide, the sexual effect of SSRIs impacts significantly on people not on a drug. Or one of them was on an antidepressant and years later is still not able to make … [Read more...] about When the Personal becomes Political
New Test to Confirm a PSSD Diagnosis
A 2016 RxISK post discussing how common post-ssri sexual dysfunction (PSSD) might be, highlighted Colpi et al., 1991, and Yilmaz et al., 1999 showing fluoxetine and clomipramine, both serotonin reuptake inhibitors, reduce genital sensation. These studies feature in our 2018 paper: Enduring sexual dysfunction after treatment with antidepressants, 5α-reductase inhibitors and … [Read more...] about New Test to Confirm a PSSD Diagnosis
Withdrawal, PSSD and Cholinergic Drugs
Health Warning I don’t know a great deal about the issues in this post. Experts by Experience and The Marketing of Anticholinergic Maleficence along with Psychotropic Drug Follies will give some feel for the background that makes it difficult to be certain about anything linked to the cholinergic drugs. The Past Present and Future article will need to be downloaded to take to … [Read more...] about Withdrawal, PSSD and Cholinergic Drugs