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Why are we allowing this to happen to our children...NO MORE EXCUSES

2011-12-03T20:50:00.000-08:00

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Important AstraZeneca Seroquel Litigation Settlement Offer Rejection Update

2011-08-21T12:41:00.000-07:00

Hat Tip to soulful sepulcher for finding this older network news video

Important AstraZeneca Seroquel Litigation Settlement Offer Rejection Update

As many of my faithful and regular reading already know...I try to make a earnest effort in keeping in the time honored tradition of providing important and breaking developments/happening related to the no so subtle & questionable deeds that have transpired in the pharmaceutical industry and in this case; AstraZeneca...

Today I would like to bring to your attention some very informative and important blogs or forums related to recent developments in the AstraZeneca Seroquel Lawsuits...so without further ado let me wholeheartedly recommend that you read the following blogs and forums to arm yourself with knowledge related to you and your loved ones health & safety...

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soulful sepulcher blog has been all over this story for some time now.....don't miss her breaking news reports, informational scoops, and thoughtful commentary related to these matters...

Quote: AstraZeneca "Made patients into guinea pigs in an unsupervised drug test"-Michael Levy

Diabetes from taking antispsychotic Seroquel: CDC stats on life with diabetes

$5967.00 for a lifetime body damage - diabetes settlement: Exclusive documents from the Seroquel Lawsuit Blog --AstraZeneca payout equals chump change

and so many more writings you are sure to enjoy...

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Seroquel Lawsuit Blog

Hat Tip to Seroquel Lawsuit Blog for photo

This blog contains so much information/links/facts/documents directly related to this litigation and much more pertaining to the sordid story behind the Seroquel crimes. You could easily spend a few days consuming the wealth of information it provides..

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In the News: from Reuters

http://blogs.reuters.com/alison-frankel/tag/seroquel/

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Finally, to balance things out and add a dose of satirical humor into the mix..

There is Topix Seroquel Lawsuit Forum

Here is a small smattering sample of the nonsensical insightful bantering this forum may provide for your reading enjoyment:

We need to keep this forum scrolling along based on the spammer contractual agreement creed code page 453 paragraph 3 line 6.

"always revert to the spammer sworn by laws which state when you don't have or can win an argument; just keep the conversation moving along...remember if you can beat the message...slay the messenger" :)"

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"AZ reached private deals with plaintiffs firms that controlled big Seroquel dockets, offering token amounts of money to plaintiffs in exchange for their lawyers agreeing to drop out of the litigation."

http://tinyurl.com/3ucwupp

Your life, Your injury, Those life long conditions you must burden including diabetes, related conditions, and even death caused by AstraZeneca's Seroquel are worth but a mere TOKEN....not a fair amount...not anything close to justice....no admission of any wrong doing by AstraZeneca...and as an added bonus your silence is bought for this mere TOKEN in the process...

If you really feel your life is worth a mere TOKEN...if all those years you have suffered waiting upon justice to do "DO THE RIGHT THING" is worth a mere TOKEN....then by all means, jump all over this settlement...

There is no more debate, hiding the facts, or smoke & mirrors platitudes now...your life without a shred of doubt has been placed on the litigation discount bargain rack....Price: a mere TOKEN

For a mere TOKEN...AstraZeneca & these many law firms walk away handsomely rewarded and confident they can continue this criminal "Business as Usual" model.

Look at the facts...look at the numbers....look in the mirror....Do you see a mere TOKEN peering back at you....or do you see a worthy dignified human being worthy of respect and justice...

Contrary to what "others" are telling you here; you (the injured party) get to decide whether this mere TOKEN serves your "Best Interest".

The spam parade crew will continue their "SELL THE SETTLEMENT' propaganda campaign right after this important message & words from are forum sponsor....

"do you feel like a cloud of depression is following you around....do you maybe sometimes feel a little anxiety when making public speeches in front of large ruckus crowds....maybe that other series of potent & dangerous antidepressant drugs you have been taking aren't making you feel absolutely perfect and better than good....that's why we want you to ask your doctor for PoisonXR....proven to be no more effective than a placebo in clinical studies...insert quiet sedative background music: this is usually the section where we tell all about PoisonXR's nasty & debilitating side effects, but that might just make you feel depressed or anxious...so just try PoisonXR....and roll the dice for yourself..."

We now resume regularly scheduled spam wars programing....

HAVE A NICE DAY :)

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Was just sitting here waiting on the edge of my seat for the packet to arrive and spending some quality time watching the setting spammer trolls roll in...LMAO....wonder when that damned packet will arrive....My packet is going to be better than your packet you know...BPB is going to give me a much better packet than all the others packets you know....I heard it will come soon...now I'm just dreaming about all the great stuff I can buy when my packet arrives....I may have to knit me up one of those padded packet jackets to hold my wondrous packet....I called (where in the world is) Carmen Sandiego over at the BPB client assistance and Fred's Pizza delivery service answer line...I was assured for the 17th time this year my packet was being delivered to me ASAP by a personal limousine service.

They said it would come in an expensive Italian leather bound packet holder embossed with 14 carat gold lettering...I'm sure this will be the day it will arrive...in fact I'd bet my failing pancreas and high glucose level on it...I figured since I'm here in such hopeful spirits, I'd just repost a little truth while I was waiting with baited & breathless anticipation...thanks for asking & being concerned about my precarious packet predicament...
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Great Packet News

GREATS NEWS!! I was sitting here in my easy chair motorized entertainment center that I obtained in a legal settlement with an unnamed or con I mention boat manufacturer due to confidentiality agreement I signed onto more than decade ago. Though I am allowed to reveal it was a horrible fishing accident where a great white shark leaped over an obviously defective railing and bit my damned legs off.

I was able to retain some highbrow-ed ligament legal counsel in that particular case because of the huge settlement I received from an undisclosed and confidential vacation package corporation suit settled over a horrible & maliciously irresponsible incident that transpired while I was traveling through the outback in Australia when out of preventive no where a wild Dingo ate my Baby...

OH Yeah, back to the GREAT NEWS...I was looking out the window when I caught the glimpse of a shiny brand new limousine with balloons and confetti ejecting from the sunroof headed my way from off in the pristine distant...

Well in a lick-a-Ty split second I popped in my glistening white teeth that I had received in an employment injury settlement from a unnamed confidential behemoth multinational candy manufacturing corporation where I was a taste tester. They should have warned me that stuff could have cavity side effects related the suffering loss of my treasured chompers.

So anywho, I hooked up my chair super charger and headed out to the road in front of my glorious double wide abode to greet them from the middle of the HWY...

In no time at all you could hear the magical sound of screeching tires and the sweet smell of burning rubber inches from my statuette joyous pose in anticipation of an incredible and long overdue packet arrival.

Yet, to my sad dismay and tremendous disappointment...the limo was just full of lawyers and scantly clad harlots off for a wild night out on the town celebrating some huge settlement victory they just won over a bunch of ambulance chasers adversaries and as they stated laughingly "Pathetic Chump Losers" that they also revealed were pharmaceutical drug victims or something to that effect...

At that moment, to be quite honest...I felt my very gizzard sink into the howling bowels of my suffering reality...

But just when all appeared lost; a disdainful melody of cheap boom box chiming Christmas music was heard in faint distinct. I knew from prior litigation experience and a confidential settlement agreement with this particular company over some bad product temperature control procedures and inflicted emotional distress this had to be no other than Handy Dandy Mike's Tricycle ice cream vender and newspaper delivery service headed my way.

Yes Sir, I was absolutely correct as that Tricycle headed straight toward me as I scooter-ed my way up to the front porch to join my faithful one eyed dog “Uni-corn”… who just so happened to have suffered the loss of his eye from an unprovoked altercation with the neighborhood Tom Cat named “PUSS” a few years back…. In that particular litigation myself and the dog settled out of court for a hefty undisclosed and confidential amount…..

Anywise, Handy Dandy Mike road on by at top peddling speed while flipping me a nice gesture greeting bird and threw a crumpled up wad of ice creamed stained papers in close proximity to my now missing feet….

Well low and behols...it was my danged Packet! May Glory be to God, and the Litigation Almighty @ BPB headquarters; my day had been made whole, fulfilled, brimming over with Halleluiah jumping beans joy, and free of all immediate burdens….

Now what to do?

Says right here I have 3 hours from the time the Packet was tossed at me to return this document signed and notarized to be part of this settlement agreement monopoly

Coming soon in Part 2 of GREAT PACKET NEWS

SIDE NOTE: AstraZeneca embroidered crying towels will be distributed at the end of this heart wrenching and touching true cross my toes story...

GREAT PACKET NEWS – PART 2

Word sure does spread like a wild fire in a hornets nest around these parts. before you could shake a crooked stick, all my Grifter neighbors (GregloryWV, Myra SmCoxx, Paddy Cakes, Billy Bob RR Jerkins, Snake Oil Sam SPAM , David Brinnen CEO, & Ambulance Chaser Baily Barnum & Baily LLC ) where knocking down my door wanting to celebrate my newly discovered dubious good fortune.

All of my law-challenged friends, neighbors, and cohorts were also mysteriously & magically involved intimately in this & many other related pharmaceutical litigation matters (call it Karma, Kismet, Kermit, a gravitational paradox, or just some parole office chatter the has brought this Mary Sunshine band of misfits together).

Anywho, this loving, supportive, & nurturing factious extended family of various legally falsified documented SSDI verified and constitutionally protected second class citizens were bubbling over with enthusiasm to find out what my newest lotto prize winning settlement entailed.

As I swiftly scurried about tidying up & hiding away any pertinent & important valuables that weren’t other wise nailed or screwed down that might offer subsequent pilfering opportunities during this gleeful atmospheric gathering of community conscience; We all sat around spending some quality time gleefully laughing & smiling to the crackling sounds of celebratory beer can pop tops opening, each pouring down a few eye watering fine jug shots of 99% pure moonbeam, and then munched away on various bags and boxes of scrumptious diabetic FDA approved snack foods.

So without further mountain a dew suspense…I proceeded to UN-crumple the packet envelope fully intending to unveil my “Praise be to the almighty whatever” Packet offer information.

Then all the sudden it occurred to me like momma beating me over the head with a wooden spoon or experiencing a unfortunate super sized “Depend” accident moment, that I was still under the omni puss (or was that octopus) of an unspecified confidentially clause undetermined in this implied pycho-babble legalized retention syndrome speak cover-up document.

Of course being the conniving bastard SOB that I am purported and unconfirmed to be; I knew there was little doubt I could subvert the implied intentions of this keep your damned lips zipped covenant, and proceeded to share in board undesirable context the parameters of my settlement tally with everyone….
So here it is Folks….

DRUM ROLL PLEASE…..

stay tuned - to be continued in Part 3

GREAT PACKET NEWS – Part 3

I’m getting way more than you…. In fact that $39.99 some of you out there having been crowing like a dawn rooster about or your reported $3999.00 under cooked fried chicken offer… that isn’t even in the same ballpark or mud bog in relationship to my settlement offer…..

In undisputed fact my offer in much closer to the total accumulated debt of the United Corptopian States of America, than it is to that poultry figure y’all having been tossing around like you were making love to somebody elses' wife/husband or related mammalia species ….

So take that & smoke in your crack pipe or other related crack Orpheus or Orifice.

In a futile attempt at rapping up this important presentation of unverified pertinent shared information here; and after pushing the last drunken carcass off my porch out unto the yard weeds & other strewn paraphernalia; I sat down to ponder in short order & within the constricted settlement return time frame what the heck in tar nation was I going to dew.

So I decided to roll my easy chair be-hide my abode to my self contained temple of spiritual enlightenment & converted cold war bomb shelter to pray/chant/meditate before an accumulation of shrines, idols, religious artifacts, and wee gee boards related to all the popular denominations of spiritual guidance available in today’s crazy consortium of faith based pandemonium.

As I pondered the settlements I had received in prior litigation related to the lead poisoning and asbestos contamination from this poorly constructed spiritual facility of sanctimonious bull plucky. I knelt humbly and hillbilly before the sacrificial alter of all known wisdom; time honored historical indoctrination, and the all mighty one and only God, or similar facsimiles of the aforementioned stated deities for guidance.

Who would of thunk that in a million eons the Good Old Boy sitting on that pearly gated Throne of all predetermined fate and destiny would be listening to inconsequential me…

The “MAN” appears to me in a vivid kaleidoscope flaming vision of such overwhelming magnitude that I was frozen in awe struck earth shattering interest & attention.

The soulful vision directed me to immediately discard all my evil ways and reject blood money of evil and nefarious intent…...

to go on a pilgrimage across this land…and burn this demon inspired “Packet” document at the steps of AstraZeneca headquarters located in Wilmington Delaware, and declare before all mankind and the sub-species of corporate board members that God has instructed them in no uncertain or negotiated terms to “LET MY PEOPLE GO”.

So for now or until another all consuming Deity comes along with an alternative opinion, option, or concrete uncompromising demands; I must in all good conscience REJECT THIS OFFER, based on doing the right thing… based on the greater good, health, and safety of all people…

THE END or just the beginning...

Now, back to your regularly scheduled spammer programming…

AstraZeneca Seroquel Litigation Update

2011-08-12T15:35:00.000-07:00

America, a Nation Hooked on Anti-Psychotics - how did we allow this to happen?

2011-07-13T07:57:00.000-07:00

America, a Nation Hooked on Anti-Psychotics - how did we allow this to happen?

Hat Tip pharmagossip via english.aljazeera.net

Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux.

Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses - primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder - to treat such symptoms as delusions, hallucinations, or formal thought disorder. Today, it seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics. Parents are told that their unruly kids are in fact bipolar, and in need of anti-psychotics, while old people with dementia are dosed, in large numbers, with drugs once reserved largely for schizophrenics. Americans with symptoms ranging from chronic depression to anxiety to insomnia are now being prescribed anti-psychotics at rates that seem to indicate a national mass psychosis.

It is anything but a coincidence that the explosion in antipsychotic use coincides with the pharmaceutical industry's development of a new class of medications known as "atypical antipsychotics." Beginning with Zyprexa, Risperdal, and Seroquel in the 1990s, followed by Abilify in the early 2000s, these drugs were touted as being more effective than older antipsychotics like Haldol and Thorazine. More importantly, they lacked the most noxious side effects of the older drugs - in particular, the tremors and other motor control problems.

The atypical anti-psychotics were the bright new stars in the pharmaceutical industry's roster of psychotropic drugs - costly, patented medications that made people feel and behave better without any shaking or drooling. Sales grew steadily, until by 2009 Seroquel and Abilify numbered fifth and sixth in annual drug sales, and prescriptions written for the top three atypical antipsychotics totaled more than 20 million. Suddenly, antipsychotics weren't just for psychotics any more.

Not just for psychotics anymore

By now, just about everyone knows how the drug industry works to influence the minds of American doctors, plying them with gifts, junkets, ego-tripping awards, and research funding in exchange for endorsing or prescribing the latest and most lucrative drugs. "Psychiatrists are particularly targeted by Big Pharma because psychiatric diagnoses are very subjective," says Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, whose PharmedOut project tracks the industry's influence on American medicine, and who last month hosted a conference on the subject at Georgetown. A shrink can't give you a blood test or an MRI to figure out precisely what's wrong with you. So it's often a case of diagnosis by prescription. (If you feel better after you take an anti-depressant, it's assumed that you were depressed.) As the researchers in one study of the drug industry's influence put it, "the lack of biological tests for mental disorders renders psychiatry especially vulnerable to industry influence." For this reason, they argue, it's particularly important that the guidelines for diagnosing and treating mental illness be compiled "on the basis of an objective review of the scientific evidence" - and not on whether the doctors writing them got a big grant from Merck or own stock in AstraZeneca.

Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and a leading critic of the Big Pharma, puts it more bluntly: "Psychiatrists are in the pocket of industry." Angell has pointed out that most of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the bible of mental health clinicians, have ties to the drug industry. Likewise, a 2009 study showed that 18 out of 20 of the shrinks who wrote the American Psychiatric Association's most recent clinical guidelines for treating depression, bipolar disorders, and schizophrenia had financial ties to drug companies.

In a recent article in The New York Review of Books, Angell deconstructs what she calls an apparent "raging epidemic of mental illness" among Americans. The use of psychoactive drugs—including both antidepressants and antipsychotics—has exploded, and if the new drugs are so effective, Angell points out, we should "expect the prevalence of mental illness to be declining, not rising." Instead, "the tally of those who are so disabled by mental disorders that they qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) increased nearly two and a half times between 1987 and 2007 - from one in 184 Americans to one in seventy-six. For children, the rise is even more startling - a thirty-five-fold increase in the same two decades. Mental illness is now the leading cause of disability in children." Under the tutelage of Big Pharma, we are "simply expanding the criteria for mental illness so that nearly everyone has one." Fugh-Berman agrees: In the age of aggressive drug marketing, she says, "Psychiatric diagnoses have expanded to include many perfectly normal people."

Cost benefit analysis

What's especially troubling about the over-prescription of the new antipsychotics is its prevalence among the very young and the very old - vulnerable groups who often do not make their own choices when it comes to what medications they take. Investigations into antipsychotic use suggests that their purpose, in these cases, may be to subdue and tranquilize rather than to treat any genuine psychosis.

Carl Elliott reports in Mother Jones magazine: "Once bipolar disorder could be treated with atypicals, rates of diagnoses rose dramatically, especially in children. According to a recent Columbia University study, the number of children and adolescents treated for bipolar disorder rose 40-fold between 1994 and 2003." And according to another study, "one in five children who visited a psychiatrist came away with a prescription for an antipsychotic drug."

A remarkable series published in the Palm Beach Post in May true revealed that the state of Florida's juvenile justice department has literally been pouring these drugs into juvenile facilities, "routinely" doling them out "for reasons that never were approved by federal regulators." The numbers are staggering: "In 2007, for example, the Department of Juvenile Justice bought more than twice as much Seroquel as ibuprofen. Overall, in 24 months, the department bought 326,081 tablets of Seroquel, Abilify, Risperdal and other antipsychotic drugs for use in state-operated jails and homes for children…That's enough to hand out 446 pills a day, seven days a week, for two years in a row, to kids in jails and programs that can hold no more than 2,300 boys and girls on a given day." Further, the paper discovered that "One in three of the psychiatrists who have contracted with the state Department of Juvenile Justice in the past five years has taken speaker fees or gifts from companies that make antipsychotic medications."

In addition to expanding the diagnoses of serious mental illness, drug companies have encouraged doctors to prescribe atypical anti-psychotics for a host of off-label uses. In one particularly notorious episode, the drugmaker Eli Lilly pushed Zyprexa on the caregivers of old people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, as well as agitation, anxiety, and insomnia. In selling to nursing home doctors, sales reps reportedly used the slogan "five at five"—meaning that five milligrams of Zyprexa at 5 pm would sedate their more difficult charges. The practice persisted even after FDA had warned Lilly that the drug was not approved for such uses, and that it could lead to obesity and even diabetes in elderly patients.

In a video interview conducted in 2006, Sharham Ahari, who sold Zyprexa for two years at the beginning of the decade, described to me how the sales people would wangle the doctors into prescribing it. At the time, he recalled, his doctor clients were giving him a lot of grief over patients who were "flipping out" over the weight gain associated with the drug, along with the diabetes. "We were instructed to downplay side effects and focus on the efficacy of drug…to recommend the patient drink a glass a water before taking a pill before the meal and then after the meal in hopes the stomach would expand" and provide an easy way out of this obstacle to increased sales. When docs complained, he recalled, "I told them, ‘Our drug is state of the art. What's more important? You want them to get better or do you want them to stay the same--a thin psychotic patient or a fat stable patient.'"

For the drug companies, Shahrman says, the decision to continue pushing the drug despite side effects is matter of cost benefit analysis: Whether you will make more money by continuing to market the drug for off-label use, and perhaps defending against lawsuits, than you would otherwise. In the case of Zyprexa, in January 2009, Lilly settled a lawsuit brought by with the US Justice Department, agreeing to pay $1.4 billion, including "a criminal fine of $515 million, the largest ever in a health care case, and the largest criminal fine for an individual corporation ever imposed in a United States criminal prosecution of any kind,''the Department of Justice said in announcing the settlement." But Lilly's sale of Zyprexa in that year alone were over $1.8 billion.

Turning people into zombies

As it turns out, the atypical antipsychotics may not even be the best choice for people with genuine, undisputed psychosis.

A growing number of health professionals have come to think these drugs are not really as effective as older less expensive medicines which they have replaced, that they themselves produce side effects that cause other sorts of diseases such as diabetes and plunge the patient deeper into the gloomy world of serious mental disorder. Along with stories of success comes reports of people turned into virtual zombies.

Elliott reports in Mother Jones: "After another large analysis in The Lancet found that most atypicals actually performed worse than older drugs, two senior British psychiatrists penned a damning editorial that ran in the same issue. Dr. Peter Tyrer, the editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry, and Dr. Tim Kendall of the Royal College of Psychiatrists wrote: "The spurious invention of the atypicals can now be regarded as invention only, cleverly manipulated by the drug industry for marketing purposes and only now being exposed."

Bottom line:Stop Big Pharma and the parasitic shrink community from wantonly pushing these pills across the population.

by James Ridgeway
http://www.jamesridgeway.net/index.htm

Stop the Psychiatric Labeling of Kids - Let Kids, Just Be Kids -

2011-07-12T14:12:00.000-07:00

Stop the Psychiatric Labeling of Kids - Let Kids, Just Be Kids

America is swallowing a deadly poison pill marketed & provided by the Pharmaceutical Industry and Psychiatry

2011-05-23T15:08:00.000-07:00

America's Most Poisonous Pill

America is swallowing a deadly poison pill marketed & provided by the Pharmaceutical Industry and Psychiatry

From thefix.com comes this must read article outlining the corporate and medical abuses now being orchestrated by the pharmaceutical industry and Psychiatry upon America & the World. I encourage you read the whole article at the link thefix.com and further yet read this book upon it's release.

This is not new breaking news for those that have been following this tragedy for the past few decades; but this is a well written and informative article you'll want to pass along to family, friends, and colleagues

Christopher Byron is a prize-winning investigative journalist and New York Times best-selling author. This article is excerpted from his forthcoming book, Mind Drugs, Inc.: How Big Pharma and Modern Psychiatry Have Corrupted Washington and Destroyed Mental Health in America.

Klonopin has been striking down more than just troubled celebrities, however. In 2008, reports began to surface of soldiers returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder who were dying in their sleep, the victims of a psych-med cocktail of Klonopin, Paxil (an antidepressant), and Seroquel (an antipsychotic) that is routinely prescribed by VA hospitals.

Hospital emergency room visits for benzodiazepine abuse now dwarf—by a more than a three-to-one margin—those for any illegal street drug.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union reportedly used temazepam (another benzodiazepine drug) extensively to keep political dissidents in a drugged-out state in government-run psychiatric hospitals. Both the CIA and the KGB are also said to have also used the sleeping pill in prisoner interrogations and in research into mind-control, brainwashing and social engineering.

Why has all this happened? In large measure you can thank the 47,000 members of the American psychiatric profession for this dreadful state of affairs. Neither the pharmaceutical industry nor the psychiatric profession would be anywhere near as lucrative as they are today without their mutual support system. Together they have created a marketing juggernaut that over the last 20 years has spawned a seemingly nonstop gusher of profits that is only now beginning to slow—and probably only temporarily.

The scholarly journals of the psychiatric profession were filled with early warnings, beginning almost 50 years ago, from those who could see where the encroaching influence of the drug companies was destined to lead the profession. Now, even the medical journals themselves have been corrupted by the hidden hand of Big Pharma. In 2008, the New York Times reported that a survey of the six top medical journals showed that on average almost 8% of the bylined articles published in their pages were ghostwritten by freelance writers, then published under the names of cooperating doctors and researchers to give the pro-drug messages contained in the articles the appearance of impartiality. The scheme is bankrolled, of course, by the company that makes the drug.

Consider Dr. Joseph Biederman, the world-renowned Harvard University psychiatrist and father of modern psychopharmacology for children, who, it now turns out, has been taking secret “consulting fees” from drug companies for years. Biederman is widely credited with legitimizing the concept of “bipolar disorder” as a chemical imbalance in the brain that can be corrected with psychiatric drugs. But documents uncovered by Senate investigators probing ties between the psychiatric profession and the drug industry, which have resulted in an explosion in medically approved uses for psychiatric drugs for children, show that Biederman received more than $1.6 million in undisclosed payments since 2000 from the pharmaceutical companies manufacturing the drugs he was encouraging parents to give to their children if they appeared to be “bipolar.”

It's obvious that this system incentivizes doctors financially to keep prescribing drugs in order to keep patients returning for med-checks. But Big Pharma offers a whole host of additional income opportunities. Last year, ProPublica, the Pulitzer Prize–winning public-interest investigative website, did an extensive report on the financial compensation drug companies shower on physicians. Well-titled “Dollars for Docs,” this series included a database of more than 17,000 doctors who accepted “speaker fees” and other money from eight drug companies in 2009 and 2010 totaling $320 million.

That accounting is only the tip of the iceberg, however, as most pharmaceutical companies have refused to disclose their physician payments. Not surprisingly, most doctors interviewed by ProPublica denied that their medical decisions and prescribing habits were influenced by drug company payments. The new healthcare reform bill calls for greater transparency, requiring all drug-makers to disclose all fees paid to all doctors by 2014. Until then, you can type your doctor’s name into the database to find out if he or she is on the pharma take, and for how much.

POGO calls out GSK Paxil Study 329 & conflicted doctors behind the charade

2011-05-13T15:09:00.001-07:00

POGO calls out GSK Paxil Study 329 & the conflicted doctors behind this charade

In my last post I highlighted the call for the retraction of GSK Paxil study 329 & censoring the so called KOL doctors behind this criminal, unethical, & immoral medical charade perpetrated for profit by the pharmaceutical industry.

Now Paul Thacker & Pogo have joined the chorus of those demanding answers, accountability, and change: http://bit.ly/jpvqCT

Author of Ghostwritten Study Runs for Parliament in Canada

By Paul Thacker May 12, 2011

The night before I spoke last week at the University of Toronto conference on corporate funded ghostwriting in medicine, the university held a dinner at a French bistro for the conference speakers. It was election night in Canada and everyone at the table was buzzing about Dr. Stan Kutcher, a psychiatry professor at Dalhousie University who was running for Parliament.

Under legal threat from Dr. Kutcher, The Coast, a small Canadian newspaper, retracted and then apologized for a story that investigated a study Dr. Kutcher published on Paxil. Known as “Study 329,” this clinical trial was funded by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and concluded that Paxil is "generally well tolerated and effective for major depression in adolescents."

Unfortunately for Dr. Kutcher, GSK was sued in the United States for hiding evidence of the link between Paxil and suicide. Numerous internal emails and documents are public and Study 329 now pops up in most discussion whenever experts talk about corruption in medical research.

Warning to readers: hold your nose. Study 329 really stinks.

If you’re new to the issue, corporate funded ghostwriting involves a pharmaceutical company that hires a PR firm to write medical studies. The PR firm then presents the manuscript to academic physicians to sign their names on as authors. Sometimes, the authors make only minor changes. The professors get credit for a publication to add to their CVs, and the pharma company gets a study that is “authored” by physicians who are leading researchers in their field and appear to be independent.

The practice of ghostwriting drives up the costs of healthcare, because these studies trick doctors into prescribing drugs that may be more costly, and sometimes less safe. These studies can also be used to seek approval by the FDA and payment from federal healthcare programs.

In the case of Study 329, GlaxoSmithKline used the study as a tool to market Paxil for use on children, until both the FDA and its British counterpart warned doctors to stop prescribing Paxil to children because it could cause them to commit suicide.

Last November, POGO sent a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) asking why taxpayers were funding researchers involved in Study 329 when it was ghostwritten and flawed.

Anyways, the retracted article in The Coast detailed some of Study 329’s problems and quoted Alison Bass, a former medical writer at The Boston Globe. Ms. Bass wrote an extensively referenced book titled Side Effects on the scandals and corruption involved in Study 329. The book was widely reviewed by media such as The New York Review of Books and The Canadian Medical Association Journal.

But her book isn’t the only detailed account of ethically questionable behavior in Study 329.

In January 2007, the BBC ran an investigative report on Study 329, calling it "one of the biggest medical scandals of recent times." The BBC released several internal company documents purporting that GlaxoSmithKline knew that Study 329 was flawed years before the results were published. The BBC also quoted Fiona Godlee, editor of the British Medical Journal, who called Study 329 a “problem” in scientific research.

The list of studies and experts critiquing Study 329 goes on and on.

I vote for Paxil!

So with such an extensive public record on corruption in Study 329 (just use Google, for goodness sake!) how did Dr. Kutcher characterize Study 329?

“I don’t think that study caused any particular controversy,” he said. “There certainly is a group of people who would like to cause a controversy around it, but science is nasty, brutish and long.”

Nasty and brutish? No doubt. Especially, when all those documents and reports on Study 329 are splashed across the Internet.

Still, The Coast apparently ran afoul of Canadian law by publishing a negative story so close to the time of an election. After The Coast retracted and apologized, Dr. Kutcher dashed off a press release.

“It comes as a great surprise that The Coast is confusing opinion with science,” he wrote. Dr. Kutcher then crowed, “[T]his is something we are more accustomed to hear from the American right wing than the Canadian left wing.”

Yep. Right. Uh-huh.

Intrigued, I called the contact person listed at the bottom of the press release, Layton Dorey. When I asked if he had looked into the problems with Study 329, he said that I should contact Dr. Kutcher at his university.

“Did you see the BBC documentary on Study 329?” I asked.

Long pause…more pause…finally… “I’m not in a position to discuss that,” Mr. Layton said.

We then agreed that I would email him questions. He never responded.

I also sent questions to Dr. Kutcher. I then called to confirm that he had received them.

Yesterday morning, Dr. Kutcher’s attorney sent a terse email, writing that Dr. Kutcher would not be commenting further on The Coast article. I extended another offer for Dr. Kutcher to respond to questions about Study 329.

Nothing.

For the edification of readers, Canadian voters, and parents whose children were prescribed Paxil, we have provided those questions below. Feel free to provide any answers you feel are pertinent in the comment section of POGO’s blog.

Questions for Stan Kutcher regarding press release and Study 329

Dr. Kutcher,

I need to ask you some questions regarding the press release on Tom Bosquet's [sic] article and the comments by author and former Boston Globe medical reporter, Alison Bass. I am an investigator at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) in Washington. I'm working on a deadline for this, so I need your responses by tomorrow 5 p.m. EST.

In case this is the wrong email, or if you are out of town, I am copying the head of your department to ensure you get them before the deadline.

1. In the press release, you note that Alison Bass is "a writer who is among those most frequently cited by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights." What exactly are you implying with this statement?

2. Do you have any information that Alison Bass is a Scientologist and/or is a supporter of Scientology's public campaign against the field of psychiatry?

3. Alison Bass wrote a book alleging corruption in Study 329 titled Side Effects. The book received positive reviews in, among other places, The New Journal of Medicine, The New York Review of Books, The Boston Globe, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Were there errors in this book, and if so, could you please explain?

3. Your press release also states: "Dr. Kutcher intends to launch a defamation suit against the publication as a result of its inflammatory innuendo and the potential to damage his personal, professional and political reputation." Does you plan a defamation lawsuit against Alison Bass for the book Side Effects?

4. In January 2007, the BBC ran an investigative report on Study 329, calling it "one of the biggest medical scandals of recent times." Do you feel that the BBC, like The Coast, is guilty of "inflammatory innuendo"? If not, why not? Please be as expansive as you wish, in your response.

5. Dr. Fiona Godlee, editor of the British Medical Journal, told the BBC that Study 329 is an example of a "problem" in scientific research. “[W]e have to work very hard not only to uncover cases such as this but to work out how to prevent things like this happening in the future,” she said. How do you respond to Dr. Godlee's charges against your study?

6. Jon Jureidini, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Adelaide, and Leemon McHenry, lecturer in philosophy at California State University Northridge, published a study in 2008 that examined Study 329 and charged that the authors selectively reported results that favored GlaxoSmithKline. They have called for Study 329 to be retracted. How do you respond to their charges?

7. Drs. Jeffrey Lacasse and Jonathan Leo published a study in PLOS Medicine last year charging that Study 329 was ghostwritten by a company paid by GlaxoSmithKline and misrepresented data. How do you respond to their charges and do you plan to write a letter to PLOS Medicine to set the record straight?

8. Last November, POGO sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health charging that Study 329 was ghostwritten and "clearly flawed." We attached several document to our letter to support the claims of ghostwriting. Do you have documents to counter our claims? If so, will you make them part of the public record?

9. Are you required to disclose your financial conflicts to your university as is required here in the United States? If so, what was your financial relationship with GlaxoSmithKline at the time of Study 329's publication? How much money have you received from pharmaceutical companies in the last two years?

10. Within two years of Study 329's publication that found efficacy for Paxil in adolescents, the United Kingdom government warned British physicians to not prescribe Paxil for children due to fears of potential suicide. In May 2004, our own FDA issued a similar warning. Why do you think these two regulatory bodies came to dramatically different conclusions from your own published research?

Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it. Again, I need a response to our questions by tomorrow at 5 pm EST. If you have any other questions, please feel free to give me a call.

Sincerely,

Paul

Paul Thacker is a POGO Investigator.

Retract GSK Paxil Study 329 Now.... Hold unscrupulous and conflicted Doctors accountable

2011-05-08T11:09:00.000-07:00

Retract GSK Paxil Study 329 Now.... Hold unscrupulous and conflicted Doctors accountable

1 Boring Old Man Blog has sounded the alarm bell; those that stand for ethical research, "DO NO HARM" instead of "Make More Money", those that stand against conflicts of interest, Bad Medicine, and Criminal Big Pharma Controlled Health Care Have heard the call & are now coming together with a multitude of ringing steeples in communities everywhere demanding not just substantive change, but accountability from those that have lied & deceived us from their scandalous medical ivory towers of profit & ego focused medicine.

1 Boring Old Man Blog

retract study 329…

and

retract study 329 – further thoughts…

It has been ten years since study 329 was published. Martin Keller has stepped down as Chairman. Mina Dulcan is no longer editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. GSK has paid out a lot of money in fines and admitted that the study was negative or worse. Every SSRI bottle has a warning about suicidal thoughts in adolescents on SSRIs. Jon Jureidini, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Adelaide, and Leemon McHenry, lecturer in philosophy at California State University, continue to push for a retraction [Of sophists and spin-doctors: industry-sponsored ghostwriting and the crisis of academic medicine, Conflicted medical journals and the failure of trust, Key opinion leaders and paediatric antidepressant overprescribing, Industry-sponsored ghostwriting in clinical trial reporting: a case study]. This story is well-summarized in the British Medical Journal by Melanie Newman [The rules of retraction].

Study 329 is still on the books, still saying, "Paroxetine is generally well tolerated and effective for major depression in adolescents." It’s a testimonial to the worst of times, and it needs to be retracted for the same reason that the statues and monuments of despots are destroyed when their regimes finally fall…

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There is no question that Study 329 and the reporting paper [Efficacy of Paroxetine in the Treatment of Adolescent Major Depression: A Randomized, Controlled Trial] is a paradigm for selective reporting, pharmaceutical industry’s interference in medical science, and a direct disavowal of the Hippocratic Oath. In addition, it reaches an indefensible conclusion – "Paroxetine is generally well tolerated and effective for major depression in adolescents." The question is, "Why hasn’t it been retracted?"

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I encourage you to read the many fine post & writings on his blog; it will undoubtedly open your mind & burden your heart.

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From soulful sepulcher blog:

A psychiatrist calls for Paxil study 329 retraction: many co-authors at CABF Scientific Advisory Council & in Dollars for Docs database

"Study 329 is still on the books, still saying, "Paroxetine is generally well tolerated and effective for major depression in adolescents." It’s a testimonial to the worst of times, and it needs to be retracted for the same reason that the statues and monuments of despots are destroyed when their regimes finally fall.." he wrote.

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Stan Kutcher, Stan Kutcher, Stan Kutcher… postscript « seroxat secrets…Blog

May 8, 2011 — admin

Sad to say poor Stan didn’t get elected in the recent poll in Halifax, Canada. He failed by an impressively large margin.

Still, I’m sure he’ll be back at some point and perhaps by then we will have seen Study 329 retracted… it is still on the books, still saying, “Paroxetine is generally well tolerated and effective for major depression in adolescents.

It’s a testimonial to the worst of times, and it needs to be retracted for the same reason that the statues and monuments of despots are destroyed when their regimes finally fall”.

So says a retired physchiatrist, 1 Boring Old Man, in this article.

I have to agree that it’s high time Study 329 was retracted – and Marty Keller and Stan and the rest of the doctors that put their names to it were put under the spotlight and called to account for their actions.

I know it’ll never happen, but I can’t shake the feeling that Keller and Kutcher played their parts (together with GlaxoSmithkline) in what amounted to a physical assault on me. The study said Seroxat didn’t work, but rather than admit the fact, all parties lied and cheated in order to shore up the profile of what I can only describe as a harmful chemical that should never have been allowed to be prescribed so widely.

The bottom line for Keller, Kutcher et al was the money Glaxo paid them to lie about the efficacy and safety of Paxil/Seroxat.

The bottom line for Glaxo was (and still is) the billions in profit it makes each year.

Who picks up the pieces? – I do, every day – and so do all the other patients that were harmed by what Keller, Kutcher and Glaxo all knew to be a dangerous drug that didn’t actually work.

Read more in Alison’s Bass’ book Side Effects - the complete story of Study 329

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It is past time to say enough is enough....make your voice heard from the town square to the Representative halls of Washington DC...corruption & greed adversely effecting the health of America can NO LONGER BE TOLERATED...

A retraction of study 329 would be a nice beginning. Yet, what actually needs to happen to bring any form of effective change at this juncture; is a huge asterisk being placed by the name of each KOL involved on everything they have been associated with since 329 (which would include hundreds of studies & journal articles).

You can’t stop a runaway locomotive by simply throwing this single study on the tracks. The pharmaceutical machine will roll on by like someone placed a penny on the tracks for entertainment. These (criminals) doctors knew exactly what they were doing; it’s past time for substantial consequences to be distributed among them.

The analogy: You can’t kill the Greek mythological creature Typhon (Big Pharma) and Echidna (psychiatry) and their multitude of off spring by severing a single head. For we know that simply removing one head from these ravenous beast will not slow their rampage, or refrain them from inevitably devouring us all under the pretext of genotype and bio-markers…in essence society is being found guilty of mental disease until proven innocence or otherwise....all for profit

Happy Mothers Day

2011-05-08T09:49:00.000-07:00

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

For all those unsung hero's who have freely given of themselves, while expecting very little in return: except maybe that have learned to cook, clean your room, and have stopped picking your nose in public. This Bud (as in flowers) is for each of you...

AstraZeneca Seroquel & the Atypical Anti-psychotic pharmaceutical Gang of Corporate thugs - The blockbuster drug scandal & crimes that won't go away!

2011-03-28T11:59:00.001-07:00

AstraZeneca Seroquel & the Atypical Anti-psychotic pharmaceutical Gang of Corporate thugs - The blockbuster drug scandal & crimes that won't go away!

Ever wonder how an "anti-psychotic" drug can become a five & one half billion dollar a year blockbuster. How an anti-psychotic drug is one of the biggest selling & most profitable drugs sold today in America. How a schizophrenia drug supposedly designed to treat less than 1% of the population is now one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world?

If you thought a 520 million dollar sweetheart deal with the DOJ over AstraZeneca's criminal practices wasn't enough, or an estimated 20,000 lawsuits for health damage & death caused by AstraZeneca's Seroquel wasn't enough; The story is just beginning to unfold with more clarity as the doors of truth slowly are opening to shine light upon AstraZeneca's Seroquel.

A new light is now being shined down upon the FDA & AstraZeneca, as they continue their profitable "smoke & mirrors" job focused with a deadly and insurmountable cost to American veterans, the elderly, our general population, and most painful of all; our children .

1 boring old man blog is doing a great in-depth series on AstraZeneca's Seroquel, other atypical anti-psychotics, the manipulation that went into their approval, and criminal marketing of these deeply tainted drugs. This series is an absolute must read for everyone that has any interest in how corrupt and criminal the pharmaceutical industry has become.

seroquel I: introduction to an “atypical”…
seroquel II: phase IIIa…
seroquel II [version 2.0]: guessing…
seroquel III: their best shot…
seroquel IV: ooching…
seroquel V: through the looking glass…
seroquel VI: the fda finale…
seroquel VI: an mid-course interlude…
seroquel VIII: sins of ommission…
seroquel IX: weighty matters…
seroquel X: matters cerebral Serebral…
seroquel XI: through a glass darkly…
seroquel XII: an opinionated postscript…
and the series continues on.......
selling seroquel I: background…
selling seroquel II: into the fray…
selling seroquel III: the data factories…
selling seroquel IV: way off label…
selling seroquel: a mid-winter break…
selling seroquel V: driving the brand…

selling seroquel VI: claims…
selling seroquel VII: indication sprawl…
selling seroquel VIII: CRO-Charts…
contents of an empty mind……
the clinical research industry: time-to-market and beyond…
the clinical research industry: the CRCs…
we interrupt this program for… gulp…
the clinical research industry: the cro running in the background…
the clinical research industry: an invisible empire…
the clinical reasearch industry: the ‘atypical’ decade…
patent medicines…
Seroquel XR: an extended release…

supercharged placebos…

atypical augmentation: statistical but irrelevant…
Zyprexa: the early earliest years…
Zyprexa: the other early years…
Zyprexa: incitement to malpractice…

Zyprexa: hyperglycemia and diabetes…
Zyprexa: so what’s wrong with Martha?…
Zyprexa: making history…
compasses…
rip van winkle…

Then there is some even more disturbing news coming from author Robert Whitaker's Blog @ Psychology Today http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mad-in-america

Why was this information hidden from the public for so long? What did Big Pharma & FDA know and hide? Why is the FDA not banning these drugs for use in children? Those are questions we must demand answers too now.

It's way past time to say "I'm Mad as Hell, & I'm not going to take it anymore"@ your elected representatives. It's past time to demand real accountability for the crimes being perpetrated against our citizenry by mega international pharmaceutical corporations. The time has come to end the profitable & deadly "business as usual" model employed by these corporations to avoid criminal prosecution.

Andreasen Drops A Bombshell: Antipsychotics Shrink the Brain

(take note of the comment section)

UPDATE: NEW study confirms the association of SEROQUEL treatment & impairment of glucose homeostasis:

Study confirms association of Seroquel, quetiapine treatment and impairment of glucose stability

From soulful sepulcher:

Seroquel trialed on Veterans with dementia residing in a Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center by Depakote maker ABBOTT

AstraZeneca earns $5.3 billion from antipsychotic Seroquel & the illegal off-label marketing fines keep stacking up

AstraZeneca Seroquel diabetes lawsuit victim receives letter: cases are not closed, this is not over

New Jersey Attorney General Announces Multi-State Settlement with AstraZeneca Over Allegedly Deceptive Marketing of Seroquel

AstraZeneca settles $68.5 million to U.S. States for illegal marketing of antipsychotic SEOQUEL: AstraZeneca denies allegations

Seroquel causes premature death: Study: 50 yr old diabetics die 6 years sooner: AstraZeneca pays chump change to victims

Seroquel trial suicide victim Dan Markingson's Mother Replies to University of Minnesota VP Mulcahy

What is it like to be a diabetes Seroquel victim? Miller Firm, Saiontz and Kirk of no use for victims

"adverse drug reactions related to diabetes mellitus are expected to accumulate from now on"-2002 Seroquel internal document-diabetes

The troubles for AstraZeneca, their drug Seroquel, & all the rest of this corporate crime syndicate are not going away anytime soon. No sleazy back room deal, high priced legal wrangling, paltry fine paid, PR spin/damage control apparatus, or political connection can hide their criminal guilt & the anguish caused by their illegal & unconscionable corporate behavior. Only an admission of guilt & consequential penalties/reparations can begin the healing process.

Want to know more....feel free to go back through the archives on this blog using search terms AstraZeneca or Seroquel....

AstraZeneca Seroquel - The blockbuster drug scandal & crimes that won't go away!

2011-03-28T09:22:00.000-07:00

AstraZeneca Seroquel & the Atypical Anti-psychotic pharmaceutical Gang of Corporate thugs - The blockbuster drug scandal & crimes that won't go away!

supercharged placebos…

atypical augmentation: statistical but irrelevant…
Zyprexa: the early earliest years…
Zyprexa: the other early years…
Zyprexa: incitement to malpractice…

Zyprexa: hyperglycemia and diabetes…
Zyprexa: so what’s wrong with Martha?…
Zyprexa: making history…

Andreasen Drops A Bombshell: Antipsychotics Shrink the Brain

(take note of the comment section)

UPDATE: NEW study confirms the association of SEROQUEL treatment & impairment of glucose homeostasis:

Study confirms association of Seroquel, quetiapine treatment and impairment of glucose stability

From soulful sepulcher:
Seroquel trialed on Veterans with dementia residing in a Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center by Depakote maker ABBOTT

AstraZeneca earns $5.3 billion from antipsychotic Seroquel & the illegal off-label marketing fines keep stacking up

AstraZeneca Seroquel diabetes lawsuit victim receives letter: cases are not closed, this is not over

New Jersey Attorney General Announces Multi-State Settlement with AstraZeneca Over Allegedly Deceptive Marketing of Seroquel

AstraZeneca settles $68.5 million to U.S. States for illegal marketing of antipsychotic SEOQUEL: AstraZeneca denies allegations

Seroquel causes premature death: Study: 50 yr old diabetics die 6 years sooner: AstraZeneca pays chump change to victims

Seroquel trial suicide victim Dan Markingson's Mother Replies to University of Minnesota VP Mulcahy

What is it like to be a diabetes Seroquel victim? Miller Firm, Saiontz and Kirk of no use for victims

"adverse drug reactions related to diabetes mellitus are expected to accumulate from now on"-2002 Seroquel internal document-diabetes

The troubles for AstraZeneca & their drug Seroquel are not going away anytime soon. No back room deal, fine paid, PR spin, or political connection can hide their criminal guilt & the anguish caused by their illegal & unconscionable corporate behavior. Only an admission of guilt & consequential reparations can begin the healing process.

Want to know more....feel free to go back through the archives on this blog using search terms AstraZeneca or Seroquel....

Bring Stigma 2 Them - & The NAMI & CABF affiliated campaign "Bring Change 2 Mind"

2011-02-19T12:20:00.000-08:00

Bring Stigma 2 Them - & The NAMI & CABF affiliated campaign "Bring Change 2 Mind"

About Time 2 bring a bit of truth 2 this propaganda campaign

http://www.bringchange2mind.org/ & http://bringchange2mind.bigcartel.com/

If you go to the links above; they will give the same old song & dance about chemical imbalance theory, genetics hypothesis, and that mental illness is just like cancer or diabetes. They will jump up and down professing these stigmatized individuals must take their medications for life ( better classified as the modern chemical lobotomy).....what they won't say, is that they really have no proof or reliable science to back up the claims they make. What they won't say is the drugs they are raving about can and do cause significant damage that do far outweigh their actual benefits.

Don't fall for the propaganda, don't fall prey to the labels, stigmatization, dangerous mental & physical consequences of these pharmaceutical industry shills.

Please do your own research and draw your own informed conclusions.

Don't become just another T-shirt slogan

What BC2M also don't tell you is that they have either been directly funded by Big Pharmaceutical Corporate Interest, or are tied closely to another supposed advocacy organization that is. They won't tell that their governing advisory boards are stacked full with doctors making incredible amounts of money working & speaking for the pharmaceutical industry.

They really really don't want you looking in their dirty linen closets and revealing the truth about their drug industry marketing efforts.

Of course labels would never cause anyone to face stigma correct?

American Court approves of forced torture & human rights abuse against it's citizens

2011-02-19T09:25:00.000-08:00

American Court approves of forced torture & human rights abuse against it's citizens

from mindfreedom:

Elizabeth and Forced Shock: An intro

Elizabeth Ellis of Moorhead, Minnesota has received more than a dozen involuntary court-ordered electroshocks in the Winter of 2011, including an outpatient forced electroshock on 12 January 2011.

Elizabeth, 67, is a retired school counselor and teacher, with a master's degree in counseling. She strongly objects to electroshock, and its impact on her memory and mind.

So on 28 January 2011, Elizabeth sat at home with her supportive husband Robert (photo on right). Elizabeth refused to report for another outpatient ECT - also known as electroconvulsive therapy.

Apparently, her "sit in" has cost Elizabeth her liberty on 18 February 2011. She faces "months" of "maintenance" forced electroshock.

Most recent news:

19 February 2011: Probably because Anoka psychiatric institution was full, we understand Elizabeth was driven quite some distance away from her home to a psychiatric facility. When we discover the name of the facility, we'll announce it.

18 February 2011 - Alert 3:

Tonight, MindFreedom was informed by Elizabeth's daughter, Susan Opp, that Elizabeth has been picked up and placed in a hospital.

Because the Minn. Governor's office has been non-responsive after three weeks, local advocates suggest concerned people contact Elizabeth's elected US Congresspeople:

US Sen. Al Franken web form:

http://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=email_al
St. Paul office phone: (651) 221-1016

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar: http://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/emailamy.cfm

U.S. Rep Collin Peterson: http://www.collinpeterson.house.gov/contact.html

Note: To use the Peterson web form, you need a district zipcode. You can address your comment 'c/o Elizabeth Ellis' and use her address:

606 20TH AVE S

MOORHEAD MN 56560

Timeline of Elizabeth Campaign, With Background Info

16 February 2011

Documents now on web: You may now download PDF copies of the signed court and agency documents that order the involuntary electroshock -- including on an outpatient basis -- of Elizabeth Ellis of Minnesota. Elizabeth faxed these documents to MindFreedom, anticipating that she may lose her liberty:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/shield/ellis/ee-documents

Plea from Elizabeth: Elizabeth e-mails a moving statement about the court decision to send out a sheriff to bring her in for forced electroshock.

MindFreedom issues Alert 2,about the court documents Elizabeth received threatening to lock her up again and forcibly electroshock her, because she refused her outpatient electroshock.

How Can the Mental Health System Get an "Egypt" Moment, blogs David Oaks, MFI Director: Oppressed people in Egypt rose up in nonviolent revolution. Then why not those concerned about the extreme and overwhelming torture people like Elizabeth experience from a corrupt mental health industry?

Now on Facebook: The Cause to stop the forced electroshock of Elizabeth Ellis, is on Facebook, please join in and comment.

12 February - Elizabeth on Web Radio: Hear Elizabeth Ellis interviewed on the first half of the MindFreedom Web Radio Hour, free here.

29 January 2011 - FDA Panel Says ECT Device "Hazardous": By coincidence, the exact day after Elizabeth said "no" to her forced outpatient electroshock, an FDA panel voted that the device is unsafe, and should finally be tested by the FDA for safety for the first time in its more than 70 years of use in the USA.

28 January 2011 -- The day Elizabeth and her husband stayed at home, and refused to report for her scheduled involuntary outpatient electroshock by Nadeem Haider at the electroshock clinic in nearby Fargo.

27 January 2011 Original Alert that MindFreedom e-mailed out about Elizabeth Ellis forced electroshock.

23 January 2011 - Elizabeth, who is a member of MindFreedom, announces on a stunned MFI international member teleconference that she is under a court order to have involuntary electroshocks on an outpatient basis. MindFreedom works with Elizabeth on an alert.

12 January 2011: Elizabeth does agree to her initial involuntary outpatient electroshock, going to nearby Fargo for an electroshock administered by psychiatrist Nadeem Haider.

5 January 2011: Elizabeth is released from Anoka psychiatric institution, with a 'provisional' release that says she must continue to receive involuntary outpatient electroshocks.

20 September 2010: Elizabeth is locked up in a psychiatric facility. She will eventually receive a dozen involuntary electroshocks during several months of institutionalization.

Elizabeth said her records show she even had to be held in a chair and dragged to the procedure, because she felt so strongly opposed. Her memory of these events has been shattered, and she has to rely on her records for this information.

Elizabeth and her daughter, Susan Opp, agree about the circumstances that led up to this psychiatric lock-up. However, mother and daughter strongly disagree about whether the lock-up was necessary, and whether involuntary electroshock was called for.

Elizabeth's 69-year-old sister had been dying from cancer for some time. Elizabeth was of course upset. While MindFreedom has not heard of any report of danger to self or others by Elizabeth, some felt that Elizabeth's emotional reactions at this time were "unusual," such as keeping her eyes closed in the hospital even while walking, or keeping her mouth open with her head at an angle.

Literally hours after Elizabeth's sister died, literally feet away from her sister's death bed in the hospital, Elizabeth's daughter, Susan, decided to hold her mom in a small room, and ask psychiatric personnel to lock up her mother on the spot for a psychiatric evaluation. Susan told MindFreedom she felt this made sense since it was convenient because Elizabeth was at the hospital anyway for her sister's death.

The mental health system claims that Elizabeth lost weight in the institution, and needed forced electroshock to live. Elizabeth said her weight loss was not life-threatening, and that since she's been out she's been healthy, active, and eating. Her husband Robert agrees, and supports Elizabeth's right to be free of electroshock.

According to Elizabeth, Susan herself is in the mental health industry, working at a mental health facility in Fargo called Prairie St. John's with people diagnosed with mental and addiction issues, and going to nursing school.

More info about Elizabeth campaign and electroshock:

Minnesota residents: MindFreedom Twin Cities is active and meeting, you can network with them here: twincitiesmn@mindfreedom.org

Minnesota & Forced Electroshock: Elizabeth is not the only Minnesotan ordered to have involuntary outpatient electroshock. MindFreedom International held a successful international campaign on behalf of Ray Sandford to stop his own forced shock. Read about Ray's campaign here.

MindFreedom has a united "Zap Back Initiative" chaired by shock survivor Mary Maddock, to network all individuals and groups fighting electroshock human rights violations. Join MindFreedom and then get on the MFI Zapback Email List, where the Elizabeth Campaign is being coordinated.

Lots more on the topic electroshock can be found on MindFreedom web site.

Outpatient Commitment: Because of the Tucson shooting tragedy, the month of January has been filled with media coverage promoting laws expanding involuntary outpatient psychiatric procedures, but hardly ever quoting representatives of groups run by mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors with the "other side of the story." But Elizabeth's struggle shows the logical conclusion of a simplistic solution that makes our homes into psychiatric institutions. Click here to read about media bigotry in mental health coverage of the Arizona shootings.

Support Elizabeth!

Pharma Giles - too good not to read

2011-02-18T19:05:00.000-08:00

Pharma Giles - too good not to read

Pharma Giles has out done even himself with this new post. I give it my highest satire recommendation. -->http://tinyurl.com/69pzbns
Then I strongly encourage you to click on over to the real deal @ the link Giles provides @ the bottom of his post.

Please Take Pause for a moment and ponder that this very well could be you or someone you love. Just ask Homer below.....

CABF bpkids - Big Pharma Front Group wins 250K Pepsi Grant - Feeding Pharmaceutical Corruption & Sacrificing Our Children Part 3

2011-01-03T07:58:00.002-08:00

CABF bpkids - Big Pharma Front Group wins 250K Pepsi Grant - Feeding Pharmaceutical Corruption & Sacrificing Our Children Part -3

Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (CABF) - Promotes themselves as the following -

(http://www.refresheverything.com/cabfhelpsmorekids)

CABF is a national, parent-led organization that provides information, support and advocacy for 500,000 website visitors annually. CABF advocates for youth with depression and bipolar and is highly respected for its scientifically credible information. Early intervention can save lives!

So where does this "highly respected scientifically credible information" come from?

Just read some of these many links listed below & find out:

Atypical America :1.3 million children 9 & under on antipsychotics!

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser: Advisor Gabrielle Carlson in ProPublica "Dollars for Docs" database: Eli Lilly

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser: Advisor Kiki Chang in ProPublica Dollars for Docs database : Eli Lilly

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser:Advisor Melissa DelBello in ProPublica "Dollars for Docs" database:Eli Lilly

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser:Advisor Robert L. Findling in ProPublica "Dollars for Docs" database: Eli Lilly

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser: Advisor Mani Pavuluri in ProPublica "Dollars for Docs" database:Johnson & Johnson

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser: Parent chat with Christoph Correll, recipient of drug company income

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser:Board of Directors & Scientific Advisor Dr.Mani Pavuluri:pharma income

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser: Advisor Janet Wozniak trialed Seroquel on 4 year olds

Atypical America :1.3 million children 9 & under on antispychotics!

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser: 2 board members part of FDA approval for antipsychotics for 10 year olds: Seroquel, Zyprexa & Geodon

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser: Scientific Advisor Vivian Kafantaris received drug company money & medication for adolescent drug trial

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser: Scientific Advisory Kiki Chang received money from drug companies

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser : Scientific Advisory board Biederman "one of the most forceful advocates of the aggressive treatment of preschoolers"

CABF Pepsi Project fundraiser: 2002 plea to FDA supported pediatric exclusivity incentives

CABF Pepsi Project fundraiser: Director Susan Resko earned $85,000 in 2007-defended Biederman

CABF Pepsi Project fundraiser: Scientific Council riddled with scandal & pharmaceutical conflict of interest

soulful sepulcher: CABF Pepsi Project fundraiser: Scientific Council riddled with scandal & pharmaceutical conflict of interest

CABF Pepsi Project fundraiser: Scientific Council riddled with scandal & pharmaceutical conflict of interest

CABF Pepsi Project fundraiser: Director Susan Resko earned $85,000 in 2007-defended Biederman

CABF Pepsi Project fundraiser: 2002 plea to FDA supported pediatric exclusivity incentives

CABF Pepsi Project Fundraiser: Furious Seasons readers, remember Marcie Lipsitt?

@Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry -http://tinyurl.com/2dh5mee

@Furious Seasons http://tinyurl.com/2ec5tk5

@EHM http://tinyurl.com/2crymrs

@dissident Voice -http://tinyurl.com/2crymrs

@soulful sepulcher -http://tinyurl.com/23w9h2t

@Furious Seasons - http://tinyurl.com/2ec5tk5

Here-http://tinyurl.com/2c8gqe9

http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2008/04/bipolar-child-key-opinion-leader-i-get.html

David Allen MD -http://tinyurl.com/24tm3cf

AfterAmerica's Blog -http://tinyurl.com/2a3bv7n

@soulful sepulcher - http://tinyurl.com/379c56t

@Pharmalot http://tinyurl.com/5u8sgt

The Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation ( CABF or bpkids ) time & time again has touted on Twitter how they receive NO MONEY from BIG PHARMA...( proclaiming their independence from Corporate influence) which I find to be incredibly misleading and an out right lie...CABF has received tons of money from BIG PHARMA to promote anti-psychotic use in young children. You need not look much further than their advisory board to determine how truly entrenched they are with Big Pharma Money & Influence.

So today it's made official that Pepsi (subsidiary Of Pepsi-co corporation ) has forever tied itself directly to CABF & the dangerous pharmaceutical corporate attack on the Youth of America.

The FDA should be made aware that part of this grant money is going to be used for direct mailings to Doctors across America to promote the Controversial Child Bipolar Diagnosis & the use of dangerous pharmaceutical interventions (which CABF & their deeply conflicted advisory board has lobbied the FDA in approving; even though there is no verifiable long term studies or related data related to the safe use of these drugs in children). Above I have post many links to important information about CABF & what they really stand for. I hope you take the time to investigate and find the truth for yourself.

As for Pepsi & their newly formed marriage to CABF? Here's just a short list of products I will be personally avoiding in the future:

Pepsi
Pepsi Max
Pepsi Max Cease Fire
Pepsi Natural
Pepsi One
Pepsi Throwback
Pepsi Wild Cherry
Caffeine Free Pepsi
Diet Pepsi
Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry
Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi
Sierra Mist
Diet Sierra Mist
Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash
Diet Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash
Diet Sierra Mist Ruby Splash
Slice - Diet Orange
Slice - Grape
Slice - Orange
Slice - Peach
Slice - Strawberry
Tropicana Fruit Punch
Tropicana Lemonade
Tropicana Light - Lemonade
Tropicana Light - Orangeade
Tropicana Orangeade
Tropicana Pink Lemonade
Tropicana Strawberry Melon
Tropicana Twister Soda - Diet Orange
Tropicana Twister Soda - Grape
Tropicana Twister Soda - Orange
Tropicana Twister Soda - Strawberry
Ocean Spray Apple Juice
Ocean Spray Blueberry Juice Cocktail
Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail
Ocean Spray Cran-Grape Drink
Ocean Spray Cran-Pomegranate Juice Drink
Ocean Spray Orange Juice
Ocean Spray Pineapple Peach Mango Juice Blend
Ocean Spray Ruby Red Grapefrui Juice Drink
Ocean Spray Strawberry Kiwi Juice Drink
Mountain Dew
Mountain Dew Code Red
Mountain Dew Distortion
Mountain Dew Live Wire
Mountain Dew Throwback
Mountain Dew Typhoon
Mountain Dew Voltage
Mountain Dew White Out
Caffeine Free Mountain Dew
Caffeine Free Diet Mountain Dew
Diet Mountain Dew
Diet Mountain Dew Code Red
AMP Energy
AMP Energy - Elevate
AMP Energy - Lightning
AMP Energy - Lightning Sugar Free
AMP Energy - Overdrive
AMP Energy - ReLaunch
AMP Energy - Sugar Free
AMP Energy - Traction
AMP Energy Juice - Mixed Berry
AMP Energy Juice - Orange
AMP Energy with Black Tea
AMP Energy with Green Tea
Mug Root Beer
Diet Mug Root Beer
Mug Cream Soda
Diet Mug Cream Soda
No Fear
No Fear Motherload
Sugar Free No Fear
Seattle's Best Coffee - Iced Latte
Seattle's Best Coffee - Iced Mocha
Seattle's Best Coffee - Iced Vanilla Latte
Tazo Brambleberry
Tazo Giant Peach
Tazo Organic Iced Black
Tazo Organic Iced Green
SoBe Adrenaline Rush
SoBe Sugar Free Adrenaline Rush
SoBe Energize Citrus Energy
SoBe Energize Green Tea
SoBe Energize Mango Melon
SoBe Energize Power Fruit Punch
SoBe Lean Fuji Apple Cranberry
SoBe Lean Honey Green Tea
SoBe Lean Raspberry Lemonade
SoBe Lifewater Acai Fruit Punch
SoBe Lifewater Agave Lemonade
SoBe Lifewater B-Energy Black Cherry Dragonfruit
SoBe Lifewater B-Energy Strawberry Apricot
SoBe Lifewater Black and Blue Berry
SoBe Lifewater Blackberry Grape
SoBe Lifewater Cherimoya Punch
SoBe Lifewater Fuji Apple Pear
SoBe Lifewater Goji Melon
SoBe Lifewater Mango Melon
SoBe Lifewater Orange Tangerine
SoBe Lifewater Pomegranate Cherry
SoBe Lifewater Strawberry Dragonfruit
SoBe Lifewater Strawberry Kiwi
SoBe Smooth Black and Blue Berry Brew
SoBe Smooth Orange Cream
SoBe Smooth Pina Colada
SoBe Smooth Strawberry Banana
SoBe Smooth Strawberry Daiquiri
SoBe Vita-Boom Cranberry Grapefruit
SoBe Vita-Boom Orange Carrot
Aquafina
Aquafina FlavorSplash - Grape
Aquafina FlavorSplash - Peach Mango
Aquafina FlavorSplash - Raspberry
Aquafina FlavorSplash - Strawberry Kiwi
Aquafina FlavorSplash - Wild Berry
Aquafina Sparkling - Berry Burst
Aquafina Sparkling - Citrus Twist
Frappuccino - Caramel
Frappuccino - Coffee
Frappuccino - Dark Chocolate Mocha
Frappuccino - Light Vanilla
Frappuccino - Light Mocha
Frappuccino - Mocha
Frappuccino - Vanilla
DoubleShot Coffee Drink
DoubleShot Light Coffee Drink
DoubleShot Energy - Cinnamon Dulce
DoubleShot Energy - Coffee
DoubleShot Energy - Mocha
DoubleShot Energy - Vanilla
DoubleShot Energy - Vanilla Light
Lipton Brisk Lemon Iced Tea
Lipton Brisk No Calorie Lemon Iced Tea
Lipton Brisk Raspberry Iced Tea
Lipton Brisk Sweet Iced Tea
Lipton Diet Green Tea with Citrus
Lipton Diet Green Tea with Mixed Berry
Lipton Diet Iced Tea with Lemon
Lipton Diet White Tea with Raspberry
Lipton Green Tea with Citrus
Lipton Iced Tea Lemonade
Lipton Iced Tea with Lemon
Lipton PureLeaf - Diet Lemon
Lipton PureLeaf - Extra Sweet
Lipton PureLeaf - Green Tea with Honey
Lipton PureLeaf - Lemon
Lipton PureLeaf - Peach
Lipton PureLeaf - Raspberry
Lipton PureLeaf - Sweetened
Lipton PureLeaf - Unsweetened
Lipton PureLeaf - White Tea with Tangerine
Lipton PureLeaf-0Cal Naturally Sweet Raspberry
Lipton PureLeaf-0Cal Naturally Sweetened Lemon
Lipton Sparkling - Berry
Lipton Sparkling - Diet Strawberry Kiwi
Lipton Sparkling - Strawberry Kiwi
Lipton Sweet Iced Tea
Lipton White Tea with Raspberry
Lay's potato chips
Lay's Kettle Cooked potato chips
Wavy Lay's potato chips
Baked Lay's potato crisps
Maui Style potato chips
Ruffles potato chips
Baked Ruffles potato crisps
Doritos tortilla chips
Baked Doritos tortilla chips
Tostitos tortilla chips
Baked Tostitos tortilla chips
Santitas tortilla chips
Stacy's pita chips
Fritos corn chips
Cheetos cheese flavored snacks
Rold Gold pretzels
Funyuns onion flavored rings
Sunchips multigrain snacks
Sabritones puffed wheat snacks
Cracker Jack candy coated popcorn
Chester's popcorn
Grandma's cookies
Gamesa cookies and wafers
Munchos potato crisps
Smartfood popcorn
Baken-ets fried pork skins
Matador meat snacks
Frito-Lay nuts
Frito-Lay, Fritos and Tostitos dips & salsas
Frito-Lay, Doritos and Cheetos snack crackers
Hickory Sticks
Hostess potato chips
El Isleno plantain chips
Lay's Stax potato crisps
Natural Lay's
Natural Cheetos
Natural Tostitos
Miss Vickie's potato chips
Munchies snack mix
TrueNorth
Tropicana Pure Premium juices
Tropicana Twister juice drinks
Tropicana Smoothies
Tropicana Pure Tropics juices
Dole juices (License)
Tropicana 100 juices
Naked Juice
Quaker Oatmeal
Quaker Instant Oatmeal
Quaker Oatmeal Breakfast Squares
Cap'n Crunch cereal
Life cereal
Quaker Oatmeal Brown Sugar Bliss
Quaker Oatmeal Honey Nut Heaven
Quaker 100% Natural cereal
Quaker Squares cereal
Quisp cereal
King Vitaman cereal
Quaker Oh's! Cereal
Mother's cereal
Quaker grits
Quaker Oatmeal-to-Go
Aunt Jemima mixes & syrups
Quaker rice cakes
Quaker rice snacks (Quakes)
Quaker Chewy granola bars
Quaker Dipps granola bars
Rice-A-Roni side dishes
Pasta Roni side dishes
Near East side dishes
Puffed Wheat
Harvest Crunch cereal
Quaker Baking Mixes
Spudz snacks
Crisp'ums baked crisps
Quaker Fruit & Oatmeal bars
Quaker Fruit & Oatmeal Bites
Quaker Fruit and Oatmeal Toastables
Quaker Soy Crisps
Quaker Bakeries

G2

Fruit Punch
Orange
Grape
Lemon Lime
Bluebery Pomengranate
Gatorade A.M. - Orange Strawberry
Gatorade A.M. - Tropical Mango
Gatorade G - Berry, All Star
Gatorade G - Cool Blue
Gatorade G - Frost Cascade Crash
Gatorade G - Frost Glacier Freeze
Gatorade G - Frost Riptide Rush
Gatorade G - Fruit Punch
Gatorade G - Ice Punch
Gatorade G - Lemon Lime
Gatorade G - Xtremo Mango
Gatorade G - Orange
Gatorade G - Strawberry
Gatorade Rain - Berry
Gatorade Rain - Lime
Gatorade Rain - Strawberry-Kiwi
Gatorade X-Factor - Fruit Punch+Berry
G Natural - Lemon Berry
G Natural - Orange Citrus
G Natural - Blackberry Raspberry
G2 Natural - Orange Pomegranate
G2 Natural - Citrus Mango
G2 Natural - Berry
Propel - Berry
Propel - Blueberry Pomegranate
Propel - Grape
Propel - Kiwi Strawberry
Propel - Lemon
Propel - Peach

That's just some of the Pepsi-co brand names listed above - Yes I know, Pepsi-Co is one huge international conglomerate that must believe they can do just about anything they want without consumer repercussions. That includes running this "Refresh Contest", where both good & bad organizations pit themselves against each other in marketing campaigns that are pretty much the brain child of the Pepsi marketing & PR teams.

One might wonder if they took the time to consider; how much money is actually going to these charities verses how much money is being spent marketing thier promotional contest?

I know without doubt when I have a choice in the future; I'll go with the 'Real Thing" & drink -->

The Very Best of 2010 - Robert Whitaker Best Book & Person of the Year - plus the Best Blogs

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The Very Best of 2010 - Robert Whitaker Best Book & Person of the Year - plus the Best Blogs

BOOK OF THE YEAR

About the Book

Anatomy of an Epidemic investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of adults and children disabled by mental illness skyrocketed over the past fifty years? There are now more than four million people in the United States who receive a government disability check because of a mental illness, and the number continues to soar. Every day, 850 adults and 250 children with a mental illness are added to the government disability rolls. What is going on?

The Mystery

The modern era of psychiatry is usually said to have begun with the introduction of Thorazine into asylum medicine in 1955. This kicked off a “psychopharmacological revolution,” or so our society is told, with psychiatry discovering effective drugs for mental disorders of all kinds. In 1988, the first of the “second-generation” psychiatric drugs--Prozac--was introduced, and these new drugs were said to represent another therapeutic advance. Yet, even as this “psychopharmacological revolution” has unfolded over the past 50 years, the number of people disabled by mental illness has soared.

In 1955, there were 355,000 adults in state and county mental hospitals with a psychiatric diagnosis. During the next three decades (the era of the first generation psychiaric drugs), the number of disabled mentally ill rose to 1.25 million. Prozac arrived on the market in 1988, and during the next 20 years, the number of disabled mentally ill grew to more than four million adults (in 2007.) Finally, the prescribing of psychiatric medications to children and adolescents took off during this period (1987 to 2007), and as this medical practice took hold, the number of youth in America receiving a government disability check because of a mental illness leapt from 16,200 in 1987 to 561,569 in 2007 (a 35-fold increase.)

The Investigation

The astonishing increase in the disability numbers during the past fifty years raises an obvious question: Could the widespread use of psychiatric medications--for one reason or another--be fueling this epidemic? Anatomy of an Epidemic investigates that question, and it does so by focusing on the long-term outcome studies in the research literature. Do the studies tell of a paradigm of care that helps people get well and stay well over the long term? Or do they tell of a paradigm of care that increases the likelihood that people diagnosed with mental disorders will become chronically ill?

PERSON OF THE YEAR

Robert Whitaker has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science, including the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and a National Association for Science Writers’ Award for best magazine article. In 1998, he co-wrote a series on psychiatric research for the Boston Globe that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

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