Mandates for Vaccines
September 26, 2021 | 2 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 | 4 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 | 17 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 | 35 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 | 39 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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Functional Neurological Disorder?
October 14, 2020 | 12 Comments

A recent RxISK post on SSRI triggered Movement Disorders – My Doctor Thinks I’m Faking It – put together by Stevie Lewis, attracted less attention than we expected. This may be because it featured strange movements and few of us figure we are in a good position to make sense of strange movements. The movements […]

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Dear Abby: Antidepressants and Marriage
September 30, 2020 | 3 Comments

News flash: A big-city American newspaper (the Chicago Sun-Times) has written about the side effects of antidepressants, and how they can destroy marriages.   It wasn’t on the Health page, or on the Business page where most of the important drug news appears.  It was in Dear Abby’s advice column. You’ll find the letter from the […]

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Grey Hair, Rotting Teeth, Semi-Blind and Demented
September 23, 2020 | 55 Comments

The Human Body is not meant to be taking ‘stuff’ all the time, whether medicines or biohack stuff or whatever. Forget the image of a magic bullet that flies to the one spot where it is needed and causes no collateral damage, every medicine poisons. The trick is to use medicines only when the damage […]

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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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