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Ex-Detective Accused of Rape to Blame Antidepressant

     Black Box Warnings on ANY Anti-Depressant are included for psychotic episodes, violence, aggression, and suicide. Along with language stating to the effect that these "side-effects" are "inherent in any diagnosis of_______________" ( whatever the drug is gener …

"Be Wary" of the American Psychiatric Association says Fox News

The obsessive need of the APA to increase diagnosis rates by the inclusions of "new" mental-illness maladies is finally being exposed for exactly what it is...a profit-driven process rife with inequities, lack of transparency, corruption, fraud, lack of proof, pharma kickbacks, p …

Metro State Hospital Report Details Coverup in Patient's Death

About 3 weeks ago, Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk CA was exposed for having an unusual number of: assaults by patients, assaults by staff, assaults of staff, sexual assaults, injuries received by patients which garnered no or inadequate emergency care, loss of patients me …

Assoc P: Grand jury transcript details CA salon rampage

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Seal Beach Police Department shows Scott Dekraai from Huntington Beach, Calif. Dekraai is charged with eight counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in the shooting rampage at Salon Meritage. A witness told an Orange County gra …

Psychiatry's Bible, the DSM, Does More Harm Than Good - The Washington Post

Due to the OVERWHELMING profits attached to the labeling of people with a diagnosis involving the psycho/pharma industry, the numbers of individuals with such a label rise every day/month/year.  We, who are lead to believe that a "mental-health" epidemic is occurring in the …

Group Organizing to Occupy APA's Psycho/Pharma Convention

Once a year, the traveling snake-oil tent known as the APA (American Psychiatric Assoc.) meets with their good and valued friends, the pharma industry for strategy klatches, backroom glad-handing and good ol' doc paid product lectures, classes on how to "up-treat" your customers  …

California State Mental Hospitals Plagued by Peril

This is the 3rd article in the last 18 months outlining the dangers of being incarcerated in a CA "mental-health" facility by the LA Times   So, last week we have an un-named "task force" calling for the increased powers to hold "patients" indefinitely with no release date …

Arkansas Judge Fines J&J $1.1B in Risperdal Case -AP

J&J trail of tears continues...perhaps that p&l statement wasn't so accurate afterall...OH WAIT, nevermind 

California's Involuntary Mental-Health Commitment Law is Target of "task force"

This article downplays several critical elements--1)without disclosure these participants are no other than questionable and suspect individuals seeking BROAD POWERS TO INCARCERATE CITIZENS WITHOUT DUE PROCESS 2) Even with disclosures such powers would qualify as  …

Pattern Recognition Technology 'MAY' Help Predict Future Mental Illness in Teens

The Australian & New Zealand Royal College of Psychiatry Austrailian "Man of the Year" Patrick McGorry tried this last year...it was soundly proven to be a complete SHAM and meant only to increase funding for the psycho/pharma industry...as they couldn't provide one shred of  …

911 Operators Vulnerable to PTSD Symptoms- APA Broadens "niche demographics" in Drumming Up New Customers

Recently, in world headlines , we've seen first hand the effects of a medicated military, and within the same month, two instances of a medicated flight-line.Now, it seems that, the APA and their deep-pocket bedmates, the psycho/pharma industry are taking this targeted demographi …

JetBlue pilot's rant puts focus on medical exams

The case of the JetBlue captain who came unglued at 35,000 feet has focused attention on what some aviation experts say is a flimsy system for detecting psychological problems in pilots.

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Medco to Pay $2.75 Million in CalPERS Bribery Case

The systemic corruption involved in the psycho/pharma industry reaches all levels and strata of society, knows no economic boundary, discriminates against no ages or genders. Adheres to no professional, ethical, or even common sense ideals...The greed wins EVERY TIME. 

J&J $1 BILLION Drug Settlement "Offer" Is Rejected by the DOJ and HHS Investigators

Why is it that a psycho/pharma company, J&J in this instance but ALL of them have done it, can harm and kill thousands if not MILLIONS of people with their product which they promoted and sold ILLEGALLY, and they get to "settle" with no other criminal charges prosecuted than  …

Western Psychiatric Clinic at University of Pittsburgh Scene of Gunman, Shooting, and Standoff

Have you wondered why these types of stand-offs, killings, and harm keeps coming regardless of the money spent by psychiatrists to TRY to keep them from happening. Have you ever noticed that the psycho/pharma industry will use these types of incidences as a tool when seeking add …

Draft Mental Health Bill 2011 Sterilizations, ECT, Psychosurgery at Any Age

They're at it again, those pesky Aussie psychiatrists. I don't know what it is that drives them to harm children at the rate and in the ways they are predisposed to do. Last year, Patrick McGorry's "Pre-Diagnosis" was handily put down due to the outcry of world alarm at his pro …

Dementia Patient Dies After Being Prescribed Anti-Psychotic Drugs

Once she discovered her mother was prescribed an off label medication, Jodi called the facility and ordered them to stop immediately.She was told, in no uncertain terms that that could ONLY be ordered by her mother's doctor and then denied access to the physician.

Drugmakers $8 Billion in Fraud Fines Still Isn't Enough

As a business model, pharma companies have long included DOJ investigations, fines, lawsuits, judgements and settlements into their cost/benefit analysis.Now, in an attempt to stem the tide of Pharma corruption and scofflaws officials are hitting them where their heart is--THEIR  …

Psychiatric Prescriptions Under State Investigation

This amounts to corporate systemic health care fraud and corruption at the expense of children used as fodder for profit for these pharma and "doctor professionals".Top prescribers wrote $47 million in Medicaid prescriptions for antipsychotic and anti-anxiety drugs in the two yea …

ADHD overdiagnosed in youngest kids in class

I've been saying and linking to this for the last couple of YEARS...aaaanyway... Part of the causes for this is, recently outed and banned former Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Biederman's falsified medicational "study" claiming it was perfectly safe for youth as young as two to be …

A Prescription for Corruption

"Emerging" markets are an obvious target for the psycho/pharma money-scope.I personally have seen recent campaigns into the Afghan, Pakistani, Malasian, and Chinese markets by drug cos.Beyond the usual $$, what perhaps is MORE desirable is the WILD WEST isolation from prying eyes …

The American Psychiatric Association Scam

One has but to take a cursory look at the APA's website to see the markets they are attracted to- school children, minorities ("Blacks"- a direct quote from their front page), the elderly, and pregnant mothers...all are shown in various states of "healthy" scenario's-- happy shin …

Older Medicated Drivers Five Times More Likely to be in Car Accident

In addition to being 1/3 more susceptible to deadly side effects, individuals medicated with psycho-active drugs above the age of 60 are 5 times more likely to be involved in an accident. The psycho/pharma profit machine cares not your age, social status, economic status or educ …

J&J Hid Risperdal Studies to Boost Drug Sales, Lawyer Says

 With OVER 1.25 BILLION** in judgements against J&J and/or the drugs developer Janssen, Respirdal (respirdone) remains one of the MOST PROLIFIC sales performers for its owners.  Who , BTW, buried negative study data, promoted their drug to children KNOWING its side …

Senate Watchdog Grassley Targets High-Prescribing Medicaid Docs

In case you didn't get the memo...script mill pusher "docs" are on the way out-like for 5-15 years. send their pharma bonus checks c/o Dept of Corrections

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