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 companies, seeing the donations come in has restored a … [Read more...] about RxISK Prize: Campaign & Challenge
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Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction: Getting a Diagnosis
When reading about the experiences of people with Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), one of the common themes is the difficulty that some sufferers have faced in trying to obtain a formal diagnosis. However, this isn't always the case. There seems to be a disparity between the experiences of different PSSD sufferers when engaging with the healthcare profession. The same holds … [Read more...] about Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction: Getting a Diagnosis
Here We Stand, We Can Do No Other
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 academics, the government and the media will pitch … [Read more...] about Here We Stand, We Can Do No Other
RxISK Reformation Day
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 Luther’s challenge lay in the perception that indulgences were just the tip of the … [Read more...] about RxISK Reformation Day
RxISK Prize: Stigma and Recovery
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 been done quite like this before by anyone. In the early 1980s few … [Read more...] about RxISK Prize: Stigma and Recovery
RxISK Prize: Global Impact
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 deal to create our prosperity in the first place. This is understandable. … [Read more...] about RxISK Prize: Global Impact
RxISK Prize: Relationships
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 of morbidity and mortality on the planet but few apart … [Read more...] about RxISK Prize: Relationships
RxISK Prize: No Nos
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 it's been impossible to get a list of how to contact … [Read more...] about RxISK Prize: No Nos
RxISK Prize: The Golden Rule
This post follows Launching and How You Can Help which are also now on our Prize page on the Main Menu. Launching the RxISK Prize has been eye opening. Everyone who has donated or will donate will hopefully get some sense of this. If you're not getting it, you need to remember this Prize is yours not ours. Those donating money and those donating sweat own what is happening … [Read more...] about RxISK Prize: The Golden Rule
RxISK Prize: How you can help
As will be clear from some of the helpful comments on the first post about a RxISK Prize, you are going to have to work with us to make this work. Your input can take several forms. The greatest need The biggest block to making the Prize work is the same block everyone suffering from the problem faces - which is that despite being about sex, being horrific, and probably … [Read more...] about RxISK Prize: How you can help