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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

The Once and Future Abilify: Depot Injections for Everyone?

May 11, 2015 5 Comments

Abilify Maintena

Written by Johanna Ryan, May 9, 2015 This column is partly a report on the marketing of Abilify, the atypical antipsychotic that has become America’s best-selling drug. It’s also an appeal for advice and feedback from the RxISK and Mad in America communities, and a call for some brainstorming about strategy. The plans laid out by drugmakers Otsuka and Lundbeck for Abilify’s … [Read more...] about The Once and Future Abilify: Depot Injections for Everyone?

Abilify, Tourette Syndrome and You

May 4, 2015 3 Comments

Bureaucrat thinks

Editorial Note: This post follows on from one of the most compelling RxISK stories ever - Abilify, Tourette Syndrome and Me, posted last week. It comes in two parts. The first by last week's author and the second by the series editor, Johanna Ryan. In our efforts to get our story told, raise awareness about the dangers of antipsychotics, and fight for better treatments for … [Read more...] about Abilify, Tourette Syndrome and You

Abilify, Tourette Syndrome and Me

April 27, 2015 14 Comments

Tourette Syndrome

Editorial Note: This post is by DG. It's number three in the Abilify series, following Dodging Abilify and Abilify from the Inside Out. I was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome (TS) as a child. It was always manageable. I did well in school and was actively involved with music programs at church and school. At 17, my tics suddenly became severe and despite extensive testing, … [Read more...] about Abilify, Tourette Syndrome and Me

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

Better to Die RxISKing It

December 15, 2014 8 Comments

I love to hear a doctor beg

Editorial Note: This post continues from last week's Persecution of Heretics. It's about how only a Popular Movement with those suffering adverse effects on drugs speaking up can save us now. It adapts a talk given a month ago to the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry in Los Angeles. It loses something without its slides. But it was recorded and may be … [Read more...] about Better to Die RxISKing It

Life on Drugs

October 20, 2014 13 Comments

Ball and chain

Editorial Note: This extraordinary account of what it can be like to live on psychotropic drugs came by email out of the blue from Jim Seko. For the record, it looks from here that Jim cannot have had schizophrenia. His original problem almost has to be an acute and transient psychosis. The tragedy of these states is that they sometimes do lead to a life dulled by … [Read more...] about Life on Drugs

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