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My Trip Through the Polypharmacy Blender

July 6, 2015 35 Comments

Blender

By Rory Tennes I was asked by David Healy to write my own story after he read my comment on another RxISK story. I agreed but have been surprised how hard it was to sit down and do it. I knew the story, the words were in my head. Yet I avoided getting started. Perhaps it was because of the painful emotions I knew it would bring to the surface. Or maybe because it reminds me … [Read more...] about My Trip Through the Polypharmacy Blender

Drugs and Smell: Smells of SHIT

June 22, 2015 19 Comments

Cartoon skunk

Medication can mess up your sense of Smell. This post links to the Magna Farta post on david healy, which tells the story of Zicam and Matrixx Pharmaceuticals. For anyone interested in adverse events, this is one of the most important stories in medicine. It also links to the SHIT Happens and SHIT happens 2 posts. There are three Tables. The first shows drugs that cause Anosmia … [Read more...] about Drugs and Smell: Smells of SHIT

Because Veterans Are Worth It

June 8, 2015 7 Comments

Cesar Ruvalcaba

Editorial Note from Johanna Ryan: Cesar Ruvalcaba is a veteran of the U.S. Army, 10th Mountain Division, and served in Somalia in the early 1990’s. He’s now a dedicated antiwar activist and a member of Vietnam Veterans Against War (VVAW). He told this story May 25 at a Memorial Day rally in Chicago organized by antiwar veterans. As Cesar indicated, many Iraq-era veterans … [Read more...] about Because Veterans Are Worth It

The Year of My Life that was Stolen

May 19, 2015 19 Comments

Katinka Newman

This post is by Katinka Blackford-Newman, who can be seen here running a half-marathon to raise money for RxISK but who also since the events described here has been involved in several criminal trials, believing that it is important that juries get to hear stories like hers when faced with the challenge of assessing what contribution a drug might have made to a crime. There … [Read more...] about The Year of My Life that was Stolen

Abilify from the Inside Out

April 20, 2015 64 Comments

doctor holding timebomb

Editorial Note: This is part 2 of Johanna Ryan's series that started with Dodging Abilify. Abilify is at present the best-selling drug in North America - how come? In last week’s column, Dodging Abilify, I described the fan-club enthusiasm for this drug among doctors I’ve met, my own reluctance to try it, and what I’d learned about Abilify from casual research. This week … [Read more...] about Abilify from the Inside Out

Dodging Abilify

April 14, 2015 56 Comments

Abilify cartoon lady

Editorial Note: This post is by Johanna Ryan, who has a unique ability to capture the American Nightmare. The best-selling drug in the United States isn’t a blood pressure pill, a painkiller or even an antidepressant. It’s Abilify, an antipsychotic agent with $6.3 billion in 2013 sales. Granted, Abilify isn’t the most prescribed pill, but its #1 status is sealed by popularity … [Read more...] about Dodging Abilify

Pilots and Antidepressants

March 30, 2015 12 Comments

Aircraft

Editorial Note: This post is by Julie Wood, the central figure behind SSRI Stories in its current incarnation. SSRI Stories has collected and posted 47 stories about pilots flying and crashing while on antidepressants. The majority are airplanes but several of the crashes involve helicopters. With the current focus on the possible contribution of psychoactive drugs to the … [Read more...] about Pilots and Antidepressants

An Irish Epidemic: Suicide and Homicide on Antidepressants

March 17, 2015 20 Comments

St. Patrick

Editorial Note: This post is by Leonie Fennel. Ireland is currently in the midst of an unprecedented suicide/homicide epidemic. Parents are uncharacteristically killing their children; husbands are killing their wives; brothers are killing their brothers; mothers are killing themselves and their babies, all at an alarming rate. Dr Michael Curtis, Deputy State Pathologist, … [Read more...] about An Irish Epidemic: Suicide and Homicide on Antidepressants

We should talk about Brintellix: Antidepressants and Suicide

March 9, 2015 45 Comments

Brintellix

My father was born in 1955. He is medium height, loves his family, fishing and hunting. In 1980 he came to America with his wife and two children to pursue a better life. In the 1980s he would say he drank too much. He stopped because he knew he had a problem. In late 1993 the company he worked for closed so he decided to open his own machine shop. My father worked by … [Read more...] about We should talk about Brintellix: Antidepressants and Suicide

Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Prozac Story

March 2, 2015 272 Comments

woman with fire in background

Editorial Note: Over two years ago we posted Antidepressant Withdrawal: V's story. It has close to 100 comments making it one of the topics that has attracted the most interest. Right now the New York Times is running a series on Breaking up with my Meds that is attracting a lot of comment. This is a hot button issue with many people desperate to get off antidepressants and … [Read more...] about Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Prozac Story

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