FDA: REMS – Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies for high risk medications

  The report’s findings suggest that pharmaceutical companies have largely ignored recent federal requirements designed to manage the safety of high-risk medications. Americans are at greater risk of injury from dozens of drugs with serious side effects, ranging from birth defects, suicides, homicides to blindness. Read more…   For example 10% of Caucasians are non […]

Jury Awards $1.5 Million in Suicide Malpractice Suit

Suicide malpractice suits are notoriously difficult to win. Juries, like most people, want to hold individuals responsible for their self-destructive behavior. They are reluctant to blame a suicide on a drug or on a doctor’s negligent behavior. This courtroom victory is consistent with a change that I have been witnessing in my media and public […]

Freshman Oklahoma Senator Nathan Dahm-Exhilerating Constitutional Senator (Gun control issue)

Freshman Senator, Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm “Three branches of American Government as outlined in the constitution and the bill of rights are “We the People”, the States and the Federal Government” Remember, warning… if Federal stealth legislation is passed relaxing barriers to background checks, then government agencies can access electronic school or medical records. […]

Charles L. Whitfield, MD: Psychiatric drugs as agents of Trauma

Charles L. Whitfield: Private Practice of Trauma Psychology, Psychiatry, and Addiction Medicine; Consultant and Research Collaborator at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3462 Hallcrest Dr., Atlanta, GA 30319-1910, USA and Board of Directors of the Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence, Baltimore, MD, USA Tel.: +404 843 3585; E-mail: c-bwhit@mindspring.com International […]

Psychiatrist Dr. David Healy: SUICIDES/HOMICIDES: THE HIDDEN GORILLA & WHAT WOULD BATMAN DO?

THE HIDDEN GORILLA: Most drugs that can cause suicide, including the antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, antipsychotics, smoking cessation drugs and others, can also cause violence. The akathisia, psychotic decompensation, or emotional disinhibition these drugs trigger that lead some to suicide, lead others to violence (see Healy et al 2006).  Read The Hidden Gorilla… WHAT WOULD BATMAN DO? Why […]

Fatal Intoxication: Soldiers dying in their sleep from psyche drugs

Such deaths have been occurring for years, but they were recently brought to light by a West Virginia couple who shared the story of their son, Andrew White, with ABC News. Andrew died in 2008 of fatal drug intoxication. The Whites blame the prescriptions their son was on for his death. According to a report […]

Soldiers: Lariam (Malaria Drug) Drug induced Psychosis-Cytochrome P450

An anti-malarial drug that has been withdrawn from routine use by the U.S. military because of concerns about potentially dangerous side-effects continues to be prescribed to Canadian troops serving in malaria-prone regions.The drug, called mefloquine or Lariam, has been associated with psychiatric and physical side-effects that prompted the U.S. military to withdraw it from general […]