Is Recovery from Medication Possible?
January 14, 2022 | 15 Comments

In response to recent posts, especially A Time for PSSD, Laurie Oakley got in touch with the following thoughts.  Laurie has had a series of six posts on Pharmaceutical Rape on davidhealy.org starting in February 2015 but mostly from early January 2016.  These outline her own difficulties recovering from medication induced injury and the equal […]

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No sex please (we're on antidepressants)
Sex Please but We Are on Antidepressants
January 5, 2022 | 3 Comments

This anonymous post stemmed from a RxISK report, which came in following A Time for PSSD last week. If anyone else, female or male, has started an antidepressant before or early in puberty with things not working quite as a result – anything from being asexual through to intrusive uncontrollable orgasms – you can file […]

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A Time for Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction?
December 28, 2021 | 13 Comments

This post has been put together by L who in the last few years has been an inspiration to many people suffering the ill-effects of a number of different drugs.  Like mythical heroines she has many different aliases.  When it comes to the harms done to us, behind heroes like Zorro or the Scarlet Pimpernel, […]

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Diagnostic Criteria for Enduring Sexual Dysfunction
December 19, 2021 | 10 Comments

Background We noticed that a lack of diagnostic criteria was increasingly being mentioned in the published literature on post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD). The condition was being described as difficult to diagnose because there was no commonly accepted definition. At the same time, a number of new websites and online discussions were appearing, many of which […]

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Prescribed Harms and Vaccine Hesitancy
October 18, 2021 | 47 Comments

In 2015, there was a series of posts on davidhealy.org Pharmaceutical Rape, Pharmaceutical Rape is not a Metaphor, Pharmaceutical Rape: Cast of Characters, Pharmaceutical Rape: The Good Patient, Pharmaceutical Rape: Doctors Still Know Best, Pharmaceutical Rape: Discrimination, Pharmaceutical Rape: Ending our Tolerance. The following year GlaxoSmithKline lawyers deposed me in the Dolin case, spending hours […]

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Regula(to)r Woman or Mother: Wright as Raine
October 11, 2021 | 8 Comments

This post needs to be read in conjunction with Companies and Mothers on davidhealy.org. Most people think pharmaceutical companies are evil and regulators are on our side.  Both are intensely bureaucratic.  They hide behind procedures.  Judge for yourself which has the most humanity. June Raine CEO, MHRA 10 South Colonnade Canary Wharf  London E14 4PU […]

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Mandates for Vaccines
September 26, 2021 | 42 Comments

Vaccine mandates feature prominently in the news at the moment. These are contentious for some health personnel, nurses and doctors among others, who are refusing to be vaccinated and willing to lose jobs if need be. France and the United States, countries not typically associated with an authoritarian approach, have made Covid vaccines compulsory. Some […]

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Mind Softens Warning about Sexual Side Effects of Antidepressants
September 13, 2021 | 11 Comments

Mind is a mental health charity based in England and Wales. For several years, their information on antidepressants has included a warning that sexual side effects may continue after stopping an SSRI or SNRI – Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). We recently contacted Mind after noticing a change to the wording. See the emails below. […]

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Once We Were Warriors Tackling Prescription Drugs
August 16, 2021 | 6 Comments

The title of this echoes We Were Warriors but also Once Were Warriors. The post dovetails with What’s a Life Worth, Morgan vs Morgan, and next weeks Escaping the Prescription Drug Maze. All will be on the Politics of Care Forum. The post copies a letter sent to J Mercer MP last week, with images […]

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What’s a life worth? Is anyone listening?
August 9, 2021 | 19 Comments

This post is by Tracey G.  Tracey approached me and as you’ll see others in October 2020 for materials on antidepressants to give her Member of Parliament, Johnny Mercer.  She had been in touch in 2018 – “lost in the world of not being taken seriously or believed with regards to a possible protracted withdrawal”.  […]

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Insomnia the Royal Road to Pills and Nightmares
July 26, 2021 | 16 Comments

This post links to Bob Fiddaman’s Forty Winks last week.  Insomnia is one of our all time biggest problems. We all need Kind Nature’s Chief Restorer to knit up the ravelled sleeve of care.  There is all sorts of health advice out there about how you owe it to yourself to get a good nights […]

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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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The Insomnia Diaries
June 14, 2021 | 18 Comments

Insomnia is a huge problem.  Insomnia triggered by the drugs supposed to treat it is another huge problem.  A RxISK post featuring enduring sleep difficulties after antidepressants has been very heavily accessed and commented on. Miranda Levy puts all three sleep problems in the frame in a way that all too many will recognize.  Eight […]

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Antidepressants and Dental Problems
June 6, 2021 | 8 Comments

The issue of dental problems linked to medications has previously been discussed on the blog. “After the rot sets in” told the story of someone on the antipsychotic olanzapine who developed crumbling and rotting teeth. “Can antidepressants make you less attractive” touched upon dental problems linked to antidepressants. “Gray Hair, Rotting Teeth, Semi-Blind and Demented” […]

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Farewell Marchino
April 30, 2021 | 100 Comments

Nearly a week ago a group of Italians sent this post written after one of their number gave up his struggle with PSSD and the system.  We’ve been very slow posting it – partly because of the emotions it stirs. Its quiet beginning and contained fury at the end conjured up Marc Antony’s speech after […]

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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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M. A. D. and Treatment Resistant Depression
March 15, 2021 | 16 Comments

MAiD is Medical Assistance in Dying.  That little ‘in’ is doing a lot of work. The recent MAiD in Canada: Treatment Resistant Depression post attracted the following comment from Gus – book28@telus.net – that was just too good to leave as a comment. Let’s DisGus Are you people for real? Is this MD for real, […]

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Gripped by and Discarded by GlaxoSmithKline
March 5, 2021 | 16 Comments

Paroxetine, aka Seroxat in the UK and Paxil in the US, SSRIs, adverse reactions, rage attacks – words to which I wish I had been introduced without so much hurt attached. Late in 2001, aged 21, one of our sons, Shane – one of a family of five placed in long-term foster care with us […]

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MAiD in Canada: Treatment Resistant Depression
February 19, 2021 | 13 Comments

See accompanying MAiD in Canada and Sex. Illustration: Meds © created by Billiam James The provision of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) is under review in Canada with debate about access for patients with mental illness. An amendment to the draft legislation eliminating the exclusion of people with mental illness was proposed by Senator Stan […]

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: Avoid Doctors?
February 15, 2021 | 37 Comments

Antidepressant Withdrawal and Dependence is one of the greatest public health crises of our time.  Ed White has recently featured in the UK recounting his experiences he drifting into dependence on antidepressants and finding that the people best placed to help him and you were others in same position supporting each other through groups on […]

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Healthcare’s Castaways: Shipwreck of the Singular
February 1, 2021 | 12 Comments

Shipwreck of the Singular, which Samizdat has just published, took more time to write than all my other books combined. The others tumbled out – often in just a few weeks. Unpublishable Pharmageddon took 3 weeks. But it then took 4 years to find a publisher. I took on an agent to help get a […]

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Health Canada warns about Persistent Sexual Dysfunction after SSRIs & SNRIs
January 18, 2021 | 4 Comments

Health Canada has just concluded its review of persistent sexual dysfunction after stopping SSRIs and SNRIs. Let’s look at some of the background. January 2019 On 25 January 2019, we were contacted by the Marketed Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Bureau at Health Canada. They had become aware of our 2018 paper, “Enduring sexual dysfunction after […]

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I Am Your Patient Too
December 24, 2020 | 25 Comments

This 2020 closes in the middle of Covid19 and with the package leaflets of SSRI and SNRI antidepressants just updated in Europe with a new but evasive Warning: ‘Cases have been observed where symptoms of sexual dysfunction have persisted after discontinuation of treatment‘. Doctors, did you notice? Here I am.  My sexual symptoms caused by […]

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$100K and a List of Doctors
December 14, 2020 | 43 Comments

$100,000 target reached We are pleased to announce that the RxISK Prize, which was launched on 12 September 2017, has reached it’s goal of $100,000. This consists of money that has been donated as well as pledges from two generous donors who have provided written agreement to hand over money in the event that a […]

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TRP Drugs and Herbs for Withdrawal and PSSD
November 25, 2020 | 24 Comments

We first mentioned Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Channels/ Receptors in several RxISK posts about withdrawal and they feature on the RxISK Complex Withdrawal Page under Ion Channels.  The table on that page gives a fascinating list of herbs and other compounds that could conceivably play a part in stabilizing people who are having withdrawal problems. […]

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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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Managing SSRI Withdrawal: Another Way
November 4, 2020 | 42 Comments

This post by J is about his withdrawal.  He takes a different approach to the ones outlined in Side Effexor Withdrawal through to Helping H – an engineering approach rather than a therapy one.  Next week we will feature a post about some of the TRP (Transient Receptor Potential) Channels he mentions.   I usually work […]

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