Friday link round-up

Links for the week:

• The Hindu : Book Review : Exploring the spirituality-mental health space

• Children on Medicaid Found More Likely to Get Antipsychotics – NYTimes.com

• Drugging the Poor | Mother Jones

• Antidepressants may increase risk of stroke and death

• Alison Bass: Too many overdrugged kids, or the story of a dead-eyed little boy in Chelsea

• Psychiatry’s civil war – health – 14 December 2009 – New Scientist
• Atypical Antipsychotics For Depression: Now With “Considerable Evidence”
  “We know that antipsychotics are the new panacea for all things mental health-related, including depression. But critics kept pointing to a pesky lack of evidence that such treatments actually worked. Bristol-Myers Squibb, manufacturer of Abilify, has been running a disinformation campaign in medical journals to tout its drug as an antidepressant. Their attempts to paint a positive picture of Abilify’s antidepressant properties and its allegedly fantastic safety/tolerability profile have been simultaneously tragic and amusing….”