- Metabolic Effects Significantly Lower With INVEGA(R) Compared To Olanzapine — This is NON NEWS we already know that Risperdal has less weight gain/metabolic problems than Zyprexa. This does not mean it’s safe. INVEGA is Risperdal’s patent extender so this is just to pump up business on their new EXPENSIVE still dangerous drug. If you’re gonna take one of them choose Risperdal and save yourself some cash.
- Grassley Presses Medical Schools On Ghostwriting // Pharmalot
- Use of fetus-harming prescription medications shockingly common, Canadian study finds — Docs routinely push psychiatric drugs on pregnant women, so I’m not sure why this is shocking, or to whom. I was on a cocktail of 6 drugs, several of which were high risk and my doctor used to encourage my getting pregnant pretty much every time I visited him after I was married? What was going on in his head?
- Junk food is addictive as heroin say scientists
- The Relentless War on Drug Users Is Escalating Violence in the US: It’s Time for Harm Reduction | Alternet
- Heart Disease A ‘Silent Killer’ In Patients With Severe Mental Illness — As I’ve pointed out other times these sorts of reports come out — why the glaring omission of the fact that drugs cause conditions that cause heart disease. Until these facts stop being ignored people will continue to take dangerous medications without even knowing that they are doing so.
- Nurses Welcome Government Action On Overuse Of Anti-psychotics, UK My mother-in-law was sedated upon admission to hospital in the UK about a year and a half ago. She entered alert for a fall. About 4 days later the sedation killed her. This can happen to anyone and it happens here in the US routinely as well.
- “If You Want To Be Popular, You Can’t Afford To Be Skinny.” – Wate-on – Jezebel — perceptions change.
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