Links of the week

Links of note from this week:

• Pfizer Broke the Law by Promoting Drugs for Unapproved Uses – Bloomberg.com

• Contaminated Fish Found in Almost Half of U.S. Lakes (Update1) – Bloomberg.com

• High BPA levels linked to male sexual problems – washingtonpost.com

• Op-Ed Contributor – The Short Life of a Diagnosis – NYTimes.com — illustrates the arbitrariness of all diagnosis.

• Doctor-drugmaker ties: Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Reinstein received nearly $500,000 from antipsychotic drug’s

• Experts seek to learn from madness – Washington Times

• Doctor gives risky drugs at high rate — chicagotribune.com (Fact is all pscyhiatric drugs are overprescribed and potentially deadly)

• Christina Patterson: Why Negative Thinking Makes the World a Better Place

• Jonathan Safran Foer – Salon.com “Eating Animals,” is not a screed against meat. It is, rather, an indictment of the corrupt, large-scale factory farming that dominates the American meat market.

• Chemical restraints killing dementia patients | Society | guardian.co.uk

• Dementia on the rise — Grace Jackson argues that psychotropics are in part to blame (this link is to illustrate how ludicrous the above is. These drugs cause dementia)
  

• Senator Wants Pentagon To Review Antidepressants // Pharmalot These drugs heighten the risk of suicidal and homicidal ideation and action and we have armed lots of young men on them.

• Drug industry presses FDA to allow more online ads AP