A Public Service or A Lethal Scam?
July 8, 2021 | 19 Comments

RxISK was emailed about a post on SSRI Stories recently.  Julie Wood runs SSRI stories, which features newspaper or related public domain material about suicides, homicides or other events linked to SSRI or other psychotropic drug intake. The email read as follows: Your using an article about my family members suicide as a propaganda piece and […]

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Clinical Trial Fraud
June 28, 2021 | 13 Comments

This is part two of Johanna Ryan’s posts on Ghosts in the Clinical Trial Machine or Clinical Trial Fraud.  Last weeks post reported on how doctors in three states have been convicted of handing in fake clinical-trial results from fake patients.  This week we’ll examine how small-time crooks like these ended up doing world-class medical […]

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Ghosts in the Clinical Trial Machine
June 21, 2021 | 17 Comments

This is the first part of a two part series on clinical trial fraud from Johanna Ryan, with part 2 next week.  Jo is RxISK’s clinical trial and shoddy clinical practice sleuth – see The Maintenance Man.   Recently the U.S. Department of Justice called attention to a small but worrisome crime wave.  Health care fraud […]

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Sex, No Sex, Sex, No Sex….
April 21, 2021 | 19 Comments

Accessible New Resource RxISK has a new resource – a literature resource.  PSSD Literature.  You can download any of these articles and take them to any doctor, lawyer or other person you see.  While in this area on RxISK, have a look at the other material under Tools. Anyone who becomes aware of any other […]

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Antidepressants: Education and Disability Certificates
March 22, 2021 | 38 Comments

This post covers difficulties primarily on antidepressants that medicines can cause to people in schools or universities who end up unable to study or do course-work, as well as the difficulties people can have trying to get off medicines, a process that can be pretty disabling. The materials linked to this post are being put […]

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Heather Roberts: Heroine for our Times
November 17, 2020 | 13 Comments

This post is to honor the life, work, and words of our dear friend and regular blog contributor, Heather Roberts, who sadly we have learned died peacefully at her home on 20th October after a short illness. Heather campaigned alongside us in memory of her son, Olly, who had a severe adverse reaction to the […]

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Where’s Anonymous?
September 7, 2020 | 13 Comments

The following email arrived last week from someone who is unknown to me – has never filed a RxISK report about PSSD, never contributed to the RxISK Prize, never previously been in touch that I know of – at least under the name offered – doesn’t sign off, and is unwilling to engage in a […]

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RxISK and Sharks
August 23, 2020 | 31 Comments

  Two posts last week on RxISK Biohacking and david healy Stormy Weather raised issues about the Enduring Sexual Dysfunctions (ESD) linked to SSRIs and related drugs (PSSD and PGAD), finasteride and related drugs (PFS), and isotretinoin (PRSD). In the biohacking post both sides of the “debate” were concerned about the people with these conditions […]

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Bio Rip-off, Bio Delusions, Bio Hack?
August 16, 2020 | 80 Comments

This ambiguous picture comes up when you search under grave robbing – nothing you can make money out of is sacred.  But its entitled grave digger. Digger, robber, it can be hard to tell. We had an email a few days ago about a young man desperately seeking help who had in good faith took […]

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Causes Sexual Dysfunction, Suicide and Birth Defects?
March 3, 2020 | 35 Comments

Everyone who reads RxISK posts will know that SSRI and related drugs (some antibiotics, painkillers, antihistamines and most antidepressants) can cause sexual dysfunction. This has been known since 1961. And that they can cause suicide.  This has been known since 1959. And that they can cause birth defects. The first publication by an Australian obstetrician, […]

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Gateway to the Soul
February 3, 2020 | 79 Comments

Read the accompanying Sex, Withdrawal and Boundaries post first.  We are looking for anyone interested in the material raised there to comment on or add to the set of questions below. We are so insensitive to the fact that our skin and gut principally, but also bladder and maybe the inner linings of our lungs, […]

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Sex, Withdrawal and Boundaries
February 3, 2020 | 31 Comments

“Do you think studying monolayers of cells will tell you why you fall in love with a girl?” The quote comes from Rudolf Hess, who won the Nobel Prize for physiology in 1949.  His students remembered him as telling them never to study a neurotransmitter or even a cell without thinking about where this bit […]

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Everything’s in Hand: Isotretinoin and the Usual Guff
January 4, 2020 | 32 Comments

Niks aan de Hand – Nothing out of hand. This item has just appeared in the BMJ:  An expert group has been reconvened to review recent safety data relating to the acne drug isotretinoin (Roaccutane) and evaluate the risk of sexual and psychiatric adverse effects, including suicide. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency’s isotretinoin […]

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Ecclesiastical and Pharmaceutical Risk Benefit Calculations
August 27, 2019 | 6 Comments

The Catholic Church has been convulsed in recent years by sexual abuse scandals. There are two aspects to this.  One has been the harm inflicted on children from the abuse but in many instances as much if not more damage has arisen from the secondary harms these children and later adults have incurred in their […]

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Isotretinoin petition
Post-Retinoid Sexual Dysfunction (PRSD) Petition
October 29, 2018 | 26 Comments

There are long-standing reports of sexual dysfunction linked to the use of isotretinoin, a retinoid drug used in the treatment of acne. FDA and MHRA received the first reports of sexual dysfunction involving isotretinoin in 1983 and 1985 respectively, and according to a publication in The Lancet, Roche had received 150 reports of problems affecting the […]

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Stop suicide
Akathisia, Depression & Suicide: The List
September 27, 2018 | 36 Comments

This post closes our series on akathisia. Along with posts on davidhealy.org, the other posts were: Akathisia Anthem 500+ Drugs that Cause Depression and Suicide – AKA Akathisia Akathisia Challenge Even Politicians get killed by Akathisia In 500 drugs that cause depression and suicide, we mentioned building a new list of drugs that can cause […]

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Even Politicians get killed by Akathisia
September 18, 2018 | 11 Comments

Editorial Note: – This continues our series of the lethal effects of akathisia running on RxISK and davidhealy.org – with special reference to Little Red SSRIding Hood and Even Docs get killed by Akathisia. Akathisia and treatment induced suicide took a political turn over the weekend, along with the issue of whether teenagers should be informed […]

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Akathisia Challenge
September 11, 2018 | 13 Comments

A post on May 31st on davidhealy.org, The Greatest Failure in What Used to be Called Medicine, and the following post on the Spectre of Dissent, triggered two conversations. One was about the appropriateness of the imagery used. The other was a long conversation initiated by Tim and then developed by Heather about what to […]

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500+ Drugs that Cause Depression and Suicide – AKA Akathisia
September 4, 2018 | 13 Comments

Billiam James’ Akathisia Anthem released last week and available HERE is timely.  Since this headline in Newsweek in May 2013, things have got worse.  In America since 2015, life expectancy has been falling and in other developed countries it has stopped rising. Recent American studies have fingered rising suicide rates as one factor in this […]

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Akathisia Anthem
August 29, 2018 | 10 Comments

A link to the Akathisia Anthem song and video is available on RxISK’s Akathisia page.  There will be follow up posts on RxISK and DavidHealy over the next two weeks. Akathisia anthem Akathisia, Akathisia You make me wanna Make me wanna Akathisia Thank you doctor for this little pill But the fact of the matter, it’s […]

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Venus O'Hara
Venus Not Rising
March 12, 2018 | 21 Comments

Editorial Note: Returning to the theme of the RxISK Prize… Reading the weekend newspaper, some months back, my eye was caught by a flame red haired women in a turquoise dress who said her occupation involved testing sex toys. The article was impossible to ignore and there was nothing for it but to contact Venus […]

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Better Times Will Return
Better Times Will Return
January 4, 2018 | 38 Comments

The following blog post comes from Mary Hennessey. It’s a wonderful example of the generosity we have seen in response to our RxISK Prize campaign, in support of men and women who have been left with permanent sexual dysfunction after using antidepressants, finasteride, or isotretinoin. Commissioned textile art piece – to be sold I commissioned […]

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RxISK Prize: Campaign & Challenge
November 28, 2017 | 9 Comments

The RxISK Prize campaign took off 3 months ago.  The generosity of donors from all walks of life – many out of work because of the impact of these conditions on them – has been astonishing. There have also been substantial anonymous donations. While many of those affected have lost faith in doctors and pharmaceutical […]

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RxISK Map: Relationship Based Medicine
November 14, 2017 | 15 Comments

Editorial Note: This is the third in a RxISK Map series of posts – See Reformation Day and Here We Stand. These link closely to the RxISK Prize. There are two aspects to finding a cure for an adverse event. One is understanding the biology. The other is getting it established that the effect happens. […]

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Here We Stand, We Can Do No Other
November 7, 2017 | 28 Comments

Editorial Note.  This post runs hand in hand with Vampire Medicine and Cisparency on David Healy.org.  It is the second of three posts, following on from Reformation Day laying the basis for a RxISK Map which is linked to the RxISK Prize. When you are facing down the barrel of a tank… Pharmaceutical companies, medical […]

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RxISK Reformation Day
October 31, 2017 | 31 Comments

Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed a set of theses to a Church door calling time on a scam. A scam that had the backing of the political and religious authorities of the day. When challenged his response was “Here I stand, I can do no other”. Today is Reformation Day. The drama in […]

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RxISK Prize: Stigma and Recovery
October 25, 2017 | 26 Comments

This continues the series of posts about the RxISK Prize.  It lays the way for the RxISK Prize and Map which will feature next week Stigma PSSD, PFS, PRSD and PGAD come with a heavy burden of stigma.  This is a problem AIDS activists met head-on and conquered in an extraordinary fashion.  It had never […]

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Map of 300 cases
RxISK Prize: Global Impact
October 16, 2017 | 44 Comments

Globalization is not a word that’s in favor at the moment. In the face of this very recent economic development that seemed to be sweeping the board in the 1980s and 1990s, we now want to reassert national boundaries, hang onto “our” jobs, and keep out others – sometimes those who have done a great […]

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RxISK Prize: Relationships
October 9, 2017 | 37 Comments

The RxISK Prize campaign has now had over $10,000 from 51 donations coming from 48 donors in 12 different countries. People from Korea to Argentina are engaging with the issue. We will give more details later in the week. It seems clear that Adverse Events – Drug Wrecks – are a Global Disorder, the greatest single source […]

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RxISK Prize: No Nos
October 4, 2017 | 16 Comments

The RxISK Prize throws up one surprise after another. I would have thought as organizations that save lives and pillars of the economy, it should be relatively easy to contact a pharmaceutical company. It isn’t. I have lots of contacts in organizations that liaise with pharma and used to have many contacts in pharma but […]

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