This post is linked to An Archipelago of Realities on DH.org. The link may not be clear when you start reading Archipelago but half way down it will be apparent. What is being said on Archipelago about SSRIs applies just as much to benzodiazepines here. Geriatric medicine came into being in the 1980s and with it a new word – polypharmacy – a phenomenon particularly … [Read more...] about Potentially Inappropriate Deprescribing – PID
Withdrawal
Why Shrink Yourself to Better than Well?
This post is by Harriet Vogt. Emmanuel Macron’s recent political right turn towards ‘Old France’ includes a renewed focus on stimulating French reproduction – a ‘réarmement démographique’. Free fertility checks for 25 year olds, and funding for research into ‘bodily chemicals than can hinder fertility’. Not, of course, the pharmaceutical chemicals that most IVF clinics … [Read more...] about Why Shrink Yourself to Better than Well?
Sex, Fertility, France and Serotonin Timeline
In a recent press conference, Emmanuel Macron said that France faced a Fertility Crisis and needed a Demographic Rearmament - see Liberty, Equality, Fertility. The Timeline below traces an important contribution from the medicines we take to that crisis, left unmentioned in his speech - and the role of an important player, the Industry making those medicines. The Early … [Read more...] about Sex, Fertility, France and Serotonin Timeline
Medicine, Civilization and Cradles
Hush-a-bye baby on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle, and all. We face a problem as important or more important than Climate Change - the changing climate in healthcare - see Pharmageddon and Our Healthcare Climate. For a decade, RxISK has been pointing to a polypharmacy pandemic, … [Read more...] about Medicine, Civilization and Cradles
A New RxISK for a New Year
Our New Year’s resolution is to strengthen and expand RxISK.org. We want the website to reach more people who have problems or questions about their prescription drugs, and to offer them more resources. Even more important, we want to expand its role as a hub for you to share information about you experiences, hopefully in a way that might serve as a springboard for … [Read more...] about A New RxISK for a New Year
Uterine Roulette and Consent
This post continues with the Lonesome Heroines theme - Consent. It needs reading in conjunction with Peter Selley's Coming Clean on Neonatal Deaths. The fact these posts deal with vaccines is semi-irrelevant - they are about a development model, a playbook, set up with SSRIs that industry now apply across all products. Our Bodies, Ourselves, a book by the Boston Women's … [Read more...] about Uterine Roulette and Consent
Empathy for Drug Induced Injuries
Dr. Healy, I am writing to you after receiving distressing messages from my son, who asked for help with regards to names of specialists or supports to help him with his extreme PSSD condition. This may seem like helicopter parenting, but I feel compelled to write in regards to the devastating impact your message had on him. He is in utter despair over what has happened. … [Read more...] about Empathy for Drug Induced Injuries
Treatment Complications: Good Expert Needed
I recently had a request for input on akathisia and withdrawal related issues that for some reason charmed me into responding. The back and forth however began to sink into a quicksand that can put me off responding. There is an old aphorism about experts – a true expert is s/he who knows how little s/he knows. Sounds cute but it’s not what anyone who consults someone they … [Read more...] about Treatment Complications: Good Expert Needed
Withdrawal, PSSD and Cholinergic Drugs
Health Warning I don’t know a great deal about the issues in this post. Experts by Experience and The Marketing of Anticholinergic Maleficence along with Psychotropic Drug Follies will give some feel for the background that makes it difficult to be certain about anything linked to the cholinergic drugs. The Past Present and Future article will need to be downloaded to take to … [Read more...] about Withdrawal, PSSD and Cholinergic Drugs
How the Safety of Drugs was Destroyed
Emer Cooke, the CEO of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is Irish. This is Dublin's famous Halfpenny Bridge which for some reason features in an article outlining the history of the phrase Tail wags Dog which seems appropriate for what followed. I wrote to Emer recently about a bizarre letter I received from Kinapse - A Brush with EMA - who run EMA's medical literature … [Read more...] about How the Safety of Drugs was Destroyed