Russian Dissenter Put in Psych Hospital

A Russian opposition activist was committed to a psychiatric hospital before government protests, supporters said Friday — the latest in a series of incidents suggesting a punitive Soviet-era practice is being revived.

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Contrary to the impression promoted by the psychiatric and drug industries, psychiatric drugs do not work by correcting a chemical imbalance in the brain, Joanna Moncrieff of University College London wrote recently in an opinion piece for the BBC.

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Especially since most if not all of the prescribed medications for psychiatric "disorders" carry "significant weight gain" & diabetes as side effects.

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New studies are testing whether psychedelic drugs such as LSD and MDMA can treat OCD, post traumatic stress and cancer related anxiety.

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The study suggests youth taking certain types of anti-psychotic medications have three times the risk of developing abnormally high blood sugars or Type 2 diabetes and two times the risk of being overweight or obese.

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Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world's largest biotechnology companies.

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Here are the starting facts: Death by suicide is at record levels in the armed services. Simultaneously the use of antidepressant drugs is also at record levels, including brand names like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa and Lexapro.

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Rampant political correctness was responsible! I'm sure that affirmative action had something to do with it too!!

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Despite clear link between anti-depressants and mass shootings, media fails to ask if Hasan was on SSRI's

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Shooting at Fort Hood: How Will it be Spun?

In our fragmented society where there are political points to be scored on anything -- even a senseless tragedy like the shooting at Fort Hood -- there is bound to be some massive spinning coming over the next few days.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies whose mothers used antidepressants during pregnancy visit the doctor more often and have higher risks of certain health problems than other children their age, a new study suggests.

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Welcome to the "fakeosphere." Internet marketing veteran and analyst Jay Weintraub says fake blogs – or flogs – fake news sites and manufactured testimonials are the fastest-growing segment of Internet advertising.

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...your Money mostly, but it also sucks the life out of just about every demographic group it purports to help or rather "treat".

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Co-Concurrance and Deviants

Over the years much has been said concerning movies,television, the media in general and violence, while it has been brought to light that these things could possibly affect the workings of a so called healthy brain.First let us concider everyone has a healthy brain,nervous sys …

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Excerpts from Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

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The concept of parental alienation, which is highly controversial, is being described as one in which children strongly attach to one parent and reject the other in the false belief that he or she is bad or dangerous

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Examples of the conflicts of interest between pharma & the APA.

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Illinois Dept. Public Health releases guidelines for elderly care in light of recent claims of abuses.

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"Public trust and public dollars are at stake," Grassley said. "People rely on medical advice and taxpayers spend billions of dollars on prescription drugs and devices through Medicare and Medicaid.

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Sen. Charles Grassley is investigating the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the New York Times reports. He might want to look into Pfizer's $2.3 billion Bextra settlement as one of the suits within it made some juicy claims about how NAMI works.

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Yes, he had filled notebook pages with his private thoughts and feelings, repeatedly expressing profound alienation. But we'd never seen those notebooks. And yes, he'd written a school paper about a man in a black trenchcoat who brutally murders nine students.

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"...according to investigators in Mr. Grassley's office and documents obtained by The New York Times, drug makers from 2006 to 2008 contributed nearly $23 million to the alliance, about three-quarters of its donations."

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Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and he didn't read until he was seven. The instructors described him as mentally slow, unsociable and a dreamer. He was later expelled from school.

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"Still, the FDA refuses to take action. No new warnings are planned and prescriptions for Ritalin continue to spiral upward. Objections to the FDA's sluggishness are even starting to appear in conservative medical journals like JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Associ …

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"There was a sexual relationship that happened in the past and possibly carrying into the future. It was the motive for Dr. Eroshevich to provide excessive medication to Anna Nicole Smith." "There are ulterior motives for Dr. Eroshevich's actions.

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Dr Karadzic, 64, is charged with orchestrating atrocities including the siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were rounded up and slaughtered by Serb forces.

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