Tue 17 Mar 2009
Reports are now surfacing that Psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich played a huge role in the overdose that took Anna Nicole’s death.
The psychiatrist was writing prescriptions in false names and prescribed unwarranted amounts of highly addictive medications to Smith, knowing that she was an addict.
Tags: Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatrists in The News
Sat 17 Jan 2009
Eli Lilly was forced to pay $1.42 billion fine for marketing their anti-psychotic drug to elderly and children when the drug has no proof to help.
Instead, the drug can cause diabetes, suicide, and other harmful side effects.
Tags: Antidepressants, Psychiatric Drugs
Thu 4 Dec 2008
I just finished watching Bigger, Stronger, Faster. In it, the father of Taylor Hooton rails against steroids because he thinks they caused Taylor to commit suicide.
I feel bad for him of course, but am pretty pissed off that he seems to completely ignore that his son was taking Lexapro, a psychiatric drug KNOWN TO CAUSE SUICIDES.
Tags: Antidepressants, Depression, Psychiatric Drugs
Thu 21 Aug 2008
A patient dies while being left in a chair for 22 hours with no food or water. Some of the practitioners were instead caught on tape playing cards, watching TV and talking on the phone.
And if that isn’t enough, another doctor was caught hitting a teenage patient!
After all that, the practioners got only a slap on the wrist.
Tags: Psychiatric Restraints and Hospitalization, Psychiatric Treatment
Tue 17 Jun 2008
Anti-psychotic drugs appear not be effective at improving the behavior of people with learning disabilities than a placebo. Anti-psychotics are regularly used on people with learning disabilities who exhibit aggression, but no studies had previously been conducted to see if such treatment was effective.
More here: http://www.naturalnews.com/023407.html
Tags: Disorders & Diagnoses, Mental Health Screening