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Mar. 13/08 - Uncomfortably Numb (Excerpted from A Brief History of Anxiety) >>
Mar. 9/08 - Marketing Overdose >> is a short video series about how drug companies unethically promote drugs to the public, doctors and via patient groups.
Mar. 4/08 - Drug firms pressed on secret pill data >>
Feb. 27/08 - Drug giants warned: Tell the truth on medicines >>
Feb. 26/08 - Anti-depressants' 'little effect' >>
Jan. 31/08 - A Pill for Every Ill—Or an Ill for Every Pill? >>
Jan. 17/08 - Researchers Find a Bias Toward Upbeat Findings on Antidepressants >>
Jan. 15/08 - The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An epidemic in 26 letters (New book) >>
Jan. 8/08 - The Medicated Child: PBS Takes On Pharma >>
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Jan. 3/08 - Warning: Drug Ads Can Make You Sick >>
Dec. 19/07 - SSRI antidepressants linked to most school shootings >>
Dec. 18/07 - Dangerous drugs continue to be prescribed to seniors: CBC report >>
Dec. 7/07 - Reported suicides – more than 80 percent got psychiatric drugs, well over 50 percent got antidepressants >>
Dec. 7/07 - Prescription Abuse Seen In U.S. Nursing Homes >>
Dec. 7/07 - Exercise pill hope for depression >>
Dec. 7/07 - No proof for imbalance of serotonin the brain in depression (PDF) >>
Dec. 7/07 - Older women on tranquillisers are major road risk >>
Nov. 17/07 - WorstPills.org Reliable, objective, evidence-based and authoritative guide to prescription drugs (subscription-based) >>
Nov. 13/07 - Drugs for ADHD 'not the answer' >>
Nov. 7/07 - Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy Increases Risk to Infants: Study >>
Nov. 7/07 - Antipsychotic Drug Use and Mortality in Older Adults with Dementia >>
Nov. 7/07 - World Experts Demand End to Child Drugging in the US Part I >> — Part II >>
Nov. 7/07 - Rethinking Models of Psychotropic Drug Action >>
Nov. 6/07 - Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs >>
Oct. 7/07 - OxyContin drug company sued for millions >>
Aug. 1/07 - Seniors popping pills despite warnings >>
Aug./07 - Alcohol Use and Anxiety >>
July 22/07 - Australia in legal drug abuse crisis >>
July 17/07 - Class Action Filed for Users of Sleepees >>
July 13/07 - Drug Prescribing for Elderly Called in Calamitous State >>
July 10/07 - Prescription for Injury - new book by Colin Downes-Grainger >>
July 10/07 - Elderly patients get hooked on sleeping pills >>
June 13/07 - Benzos & Acid Reflux >>
June 3/07 - Elderly Doctors & Drug-Prescribing >>
May 23/07 - Benzodiazepine Dependency Cause for Concern in Quebec Senior Population >>
May 18/07 - The Role of the Pharmaceutical Companies in the Treatment of Mental Ill Health (Dr. Heather Ashton speech) >>
Mar. 29/07 - Bipolar Treatment Comes Into Question >>
Apr. 28/07 - U.S. wonders if Zyprexa drug data was accurate >>
Apr. 26/07 - Pharma Greed Gone Mad? >>
Apr. 5/07 - Neuroleptics - dangerous in Alzheimer's? >>
March 21/07 - Prominent Psychiatrist Forced to Finally Concede that Psychiatric Diagnoses are Not Based on Science >>
March 14/07 - Sleeping aids may trigger allergic reactions, dangerous behaviour >>
March 2/07 - Warning Issued Over Drug [Effexor] >>
Jan. 12/07 - Suicide rates in hospitals 'very high' >>
Dec. 18/06 - Zyprexa sales rep video - a must-see! >>
Dec. 13/06 - Health Canada issues warning for sleep supplement >>
Dec. 7/06 - Do SSRI antidepressants lead to an increase in violent behaviour? >>
Dec. 5/06 - SSRI Experts Head to Washington to Testify Before FDA Panel >>
Sept./06 - Anti-Depressants and Violence: Problems at the Interface of Medicine and Law >>
Sept./06 - Anti-Depressant Drugs Linked to Increased Risk of Death for Heart Patients >>
Aug. 31/06 - Atypical Anti-Psychotics: Prescribing in B.C. >>
Aug. 26/06 - Antidepressants during pregnancy may affect baby >>
2006 - Strategies for discontinuing long-term benzodiazepine use >>
Aug. 8/06 - Some say ending antidepressants daunting >>
July 11/06 - Financial ties to industry cloud depression study >>
July/06 - Do Anti-Depressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States? >>
June/06 - Statement by School Social Worker About Psychiatric Drugs & Children >>
June 30/06 - STAR*D Wars: The Corruption of the NIMH and the Failure of Anti- Depressants >>
June/06 - SSRI Disaster Stories >>
May 13/06 - "Prescribed to Death" wins top award for investigative journalism in Canada >>
May 8/06 - New Pharma Ad Rules Result in More Ads >>
May 18/06 - Users of popular sleep aid report problems at night >>
May/06 - U.S.: Selling to the Worried Well >>
May 8/06 - Doctors Say Drugmakers Are "Disease-Mongering" to Boost Sales >>
May 1/06 - Elderly at Risk Using Mood Drugs >>
Mar.-Apr./06 - Trends in Prescribing of Antipsychotic Medications for US Children >>
Spring 2006 - Survey Finds Drugs Often Prescribed Incorrectly >>
Mar.23/06 - Sleep Deprivation: The Great American Myth >>
Feb. 7/06 - Record Sales of Sleeping Pills Are Causing Worries >>
Feb. 6/06 - Prescription Drug Death Toll Rising….Women are dying in greater numbers from prescription drug overdoses than from street drugs such as cocaine and heroin >>
Jan. 12/06 - Antidepressant Madness Strikes Baseball Pitcher Jeff Reardon >>
Dec. 8/05 - CBC Radio's investigative report on "Canada's prescription drug problem," focusing on benzodiazepines >>
Nov. 17/05 - Many Kids Taking Sleeping Pills >>
Nov. 14/05 - Bitter Pills"…do the new anti-depressants work? And are they worth the risk? >>
Nov. 11/05 - Sedatives Risk Fears for Elderly >>
Nov. 8/05 - Ads for SSRI Antidepressants Are Misleading, Say Researchers >>
Oct. 26/05 - U.S. Alters Test Policy On Psychiatric Drugs, FDA Won't Require 6-Month Studies >>
Oct. 20/05 - Big Pharma's Calling the Shots >>
July 8/05 - Prescribed to Death >>
June 17/05 - Benzodiazepines Increase Symptoms of Restless Legs Syndrome. >>
June 1/05 - Addictive Drugs Given to U.S. Sleep-Deprived >>
May/05 - Women and Health Protection releases new paper on SSRIs >> (PDF)
May/05 - Are medical journals laundering information for pharmaceutical companies? >>