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500+ Drugs that Cause Depression and Suicide – AKA Akathisia

September 4, 2018 18 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 fall. In March 2013 in a post … [Read more...] about 500+ Drugs that Cause Depression and Suicide – AKA Akathisia

Akathisia Anthem

August 29, 2018 11 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 making me ill The fact of the matter is I can’t, … [Read more...] about Akathisia Anthem

The WARM Network: Withdrawal and Recovery Meetings

June 27, 2018 18 Comments

Crazy and it was

New Initiative: The Withdrawal and Recovery Meeting (WARM) Network of Groups By Jennifer Bryant and Laurie Oakley This is a new initiative to give anyone who would like to start an in-person withdrawal group in their community a way to get started.  We have created a free "toolkit" that contains a Guide for Facilitators, Suggested Group Format, Suggested Readings, List of … [Read more...] about The WARM Network: Withdrawal and Recovery Meetings

The Woman Who Was: Looking back from Prescription Cascade

May 21, 2018 17 Comments

  Editorial Note:  This is M's story.  She outlines a Prescribing Cascade.  In an email she also asks a question: does anyone have any evidence of SSRI withdrawal causing Vit D deficiency?   HRT HRT started it all.  Peri menopausal at 45, my GP did a FSH test and prescribed Climagest – oral oestrogen and progesterone.  Hot flushes disappeared and I felt myself … [Read more...] about The Woman Who Was: Looking back from Prescription Cascade

PGAD: Clitoridectomy or ECT?

December 22, 2017 15 Comments

Editorial Note:  Following on from The Princess and the Frozen Pea, this is a second post in a PGAD series.  There will be one more on the range of conditions mentioned here that are often linked to PGAD - interstitial cystitis, pelvic floor dysnergia, prostatitis and others. See also PGAD Video Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD) has been associated with SSRI use … [Read more...] about PGAD: Clitoridectomy or ECT?

The Princess and the Frozen Pea: PGAD

December 15, 2017 10 Comments

Imagine: sitting with friends – maybe a couple of people you have never met before also present – having supper. You’re uncomfortable; it’s hard to sit still. You try hard to concentrate on the conversation – the political turmoil erupting around you, or a film someone’s just been to see – but you can’t. Because the discomfort between your legs is unbearable. It fills every … [Read more...] about The Princess and the Frozen Pea: PGAD

Prescription for Murder ABCD

August 8, 2017 42 Comments

  If you look at the adverse events section of the sertraline - Zoloft - label you will see in small print that sertraline has been linked to psychosis, hallucinations and aggressive reactions. Its there in small print.  These links have been there since the mid-1990s. Vanishingly few doctors understand what is going on here.  They see a label saying something … [Read more...] about Prescription for Murder ABCD

What a Surprise: RxISK taking entrepreneurs

June 12, 2017 7 Comments

It is worth wading through some slow moving stuff at the start of this post to get to the juicy bits. The Things Drugs Do Drugs do things.  Company marketing divides these things into the one good thing the company wants you to focus on - good for a company bottom-line and the ninety-nine other "side effects" that we are doing our best to minimize. This issue came up in … [Read more...] about What a Surprise: RxISK taking entrepreneurs

Drug Wrecked: Where Does Change Come From?

April 24, 2017 52 Comments

Shipwrecked by the Cure

Editorial Note:  There are two elements to RxISK.  One is identifying adverse events in order to keep people safe and to widen our knowledge about what drugs do. But just as important is taking on a power structure that some of us get a glimpse of when we raise the possibility of an adverse event and our doctors dismiss us, or get nasty, and close ranks.  The idea behind a … [Read more...] about Drug Wrecked: Where Does Change Come From?

Greg’s Dilemma: Feeling Blue

December 31, 2015 27 Comments

Antidepressant site specific action

Magic bullet In Greg's Dilemma 1 and Dilemma 2, Greg outlined more than one dilemma linked to getting hooked to antidepressants and benzodiazepines. The responses to these posts were all over the shop - from pull yourself together, to entrust your life to God, to support for descriptions of positions others find themselves in. The responses also split in terms of what the … [Read more...] about Greg’s Dilemma: Feeling Blue

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