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American Man Moves to Brazil for Affordable Medical Care

Because of the cost in the United States of the medical care I need, and the medicines, I have discovered that I simply cannot afford to come back to the country of my birth.  Fortunately, Brazil has a lot to offer, including free medical care and medicines.Every two...

Seroxat / Paxil antidepressant – addiction is real.

Can your Doctor differentiate between you as a patient being unhappy through circumstances as to your life events from physical degradation of your mind; from chemical imbalance caused by reactions by other medications, from chemicals in foods/beverages, from chemicals in the...

Teenage suicide rates continue to rise in US

A recent study by the The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital out of Columbus, Ohio suggests that teenage suicide rates may be on the rise in the U.S."From 1996 to 2003, the rate of suicides among...

Two Drugs Combine for Moderate Fibromyalgia Pain Relief

"One of the most frustrating aspects of fibromyalgia has been the lack of viable medications to treat its symptoms according to Disaboom, the largest online community for people with disabilities. Many different things are tried in combination for relief of pain and for...

Heath Ledger's Nick Drake video surfaces

Is it foreshadowing or just a coincidence that Heath Ledger filmed a tribute video for a melancholic artist who also overdosed on antidepressants? The mythology practically writes itself." In the wake of Heath...

Ben Stanford's Suicide--Bipolar Often Diagnosed as Depression

"I am absolutely making no assumptions about the state of mind 17-year old Alabama teen Ben Stanford was in when he decided to take his own life.  However, I do have education and background in this field of...

News & Health Fear Mongers Threatened by the American Dream

If nation's were living organisms (and they are), the news media would constitute the histamines of those poor afflicted bodies they "serve". Histamines, which cause no end of aggravating irritation by...

Arianna Huffington: Virginia Tech Aftermath: Did Legal Drugs Play a Role in t...

"Reports that Cho had been taking antidepressants once again turn the spotlight on the uneasy question of what role these powerful medications might have played in yet another campus massacre. It's the same bloody-morning-after question I've been asking since 1998, when we...

The Real "Mental Health Lessons" from Virginia Tech

"Instead of offering the promise of reducing violence, all psychiatric drugs carry the potential risk of driving the individual into violent madness. For example, both the newer antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft and Celexa, and the antipsychotic drugs such as...

Robbie Williams enters rehab

Everyone's in rehab!"Robbie Williams has checked himself into rehab to battle an addiction with prescription drugs. His rep issued this statement, “Robbie Williams has today been admitted into a treatment center...

Anna Nicole Smith, DEAD

"The first lady of our bastard celebrity media nation has died today... apparently from a lethal dose of methadone and antidepressants on the floor of a room at the Hard Rock Hotel, and was there any other way for...

Panel urges broader suicide warning on antidepressants

AP Thursday, December 14, 2006 - Antidepressants increase the risk of suicidal behavior for people up to age 24, the government said Wednesday. It plans new warning labels, and says users of all ages should be closely monitored. The...

Pathologist: Anna Nicole's son on antidepressants

"Anna Nicole Smith's son was on prescription anti-depression medication when he died at the hospital bedside of the former reality TV star, a pathologist who did a second autopsy on 20-year-old Daniel Smith...

Tom apologises to Brooke

"Tom Cruise, who last year slammed Brooke Shields for using antidepressants, has apologised to the actress for his comments. Shields revealed the 'Mission: Impossible' star's mea culpa during an interview on the...

Antidepressants prove addictive to some (AP)

" When Gina O'Brien decided she no longer needed drugs to quell her anxiety and panic attacks, she followed doctor's orders by slowly tapering her dose of the antidepressant Paxil. The gradual withdrawal was supposed to prevent unpleasant symptoms that can result from...

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