What is this garbage? A big red flag for the credibility of psychiatry is how many psychiatric providers' websites contain flagrantly false information.

Public records show that Patrizia Cavazzoni Director of the FDA Center for Drugs who Janet Woodcock appointed and who was involved in the unlawful approval of Aduhelm while in charge of post-marking safety for Zyprexa at Lilly met with the FDA and denied that Zyprexia was causing…

Why is that on X the folks that are psychiatric drug enthusiasts seem to have such trouble being emotionally regulated in their conversations?

I would have thought that given access to those wonderful ‘mood stablizers’ like Seroquel they would all be pretty chill and happy?

Opinion: The failure of Canada’s health care system is a disgrace – and a deadly one /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Drs Alexander and Hanson have used many thousands of words debating the utility of healthcare. Both make great points.

Obviously healthcare helps people. Obviously much of healthcare is low value.

Love this advice from RH on finding low-value care

“Canada[‘s MAID/suicide] program, supposedly enabling the terminally ill to die with dignity, increasingly resembles a dystopian replacement for care services, exchanging social welfare for euthanasia.” ⁦David Moscrop⁩ jacobin.com/2024/05/canada…

In case anyone else wants to email the NIH about the chemical imbalance misinformation appearing on their website re: SSRIs and autism - the email is [email protected] (post is in the comments)

Yes 💯Stop Medical Kidnapping ... on top of the scandal of Lisa Shore, whose death at inquest was ruled a *homicide*:
hthttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/sick-kids-saga-grows-ever-more-disturbing/article766249/
Lisa's death was followed closely by another...
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10 years ago today I finished a 5 day detox off of 1.25 mg of Klonopin. Little did I know that:

Akathisia was about to become my best friend
That I would be completely disowned by my entire social support system
That I would suffer the worst torture imaginable for years

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10's of 1000's of lawsuits, J & J are moving forward with a $6.475 billion proposed settlement. Janssen, their pharmaceutical segment given a $8 billion jury verdict for failing to warn about the risks of Risperdal, makers of controversial Esketamine, are unveiling a new look:

This piece is by the crime correspondent because the report covers all deaths in custody - but, unlike deaths in prisons, police custody, & immigration detention, there is no requirement for deaths of patients detained under the #MentalHealth Act to be independently investigated

Failed leaders like Rob Howard love to blame anyone but themselves
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
'People detained under the Mental Health Act dying at three times the rate of those held in prisons'

People detained under Mental Health Act dying at three times rate of those in prisons Amy-Clare Martin
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Quebec man chooses assisted death after emergency department stay leaves him with agonising pressure ulcer | The BMJ bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Project TABS 'We stopped using benzodiazepines years ago because of how deliriogenic they are. To see 86% of people on a ventilator getting a benzodiazepine is like going back to how we practiced in 1995.' benzoinfo.com/covid-19/#deli…

Grim. 🇨🇦 is losing health (+$) to alcohol.
The most effective way to change purchasing of alcohol? Increase price.
But in 2024, increase in alcohol tax was capped at 2% (with inflation, that's a 2.7% *decrease*)
Unsurprisingly, welcomed by BigAlcohol.
globalnews.ca/news/10455862/…

Interesting to note here that many psychiatric medications disrupt REM sleep.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Sleep deprivation, fragmentation, and restriction also had a significant effect for blunted emotional arousal. This reflects the impairment of top-down emotional processing following sleep loss.

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Currently the NHS must have recorded only a handful of cases of protracted withdrawal from antidepressants and psych meds which means the full scale of the problem is not visible. Important for correct diagnosis to be made and Yellow Card reporting