Property Rights Not Guaranteed In Canada : A Real Courtroom Drama

Seated across from me next to the Judge at the Settlement Conference table were the three lawyers for the City, GVRD, and the Sewage Authority. They eyed me like sharks circling their bait. “All right...

Illegal Psychiatric Drug Marketing System Charted/Exposed

It is illegal to market drugs that are not FDA-approved for a specific condition. This criminal offense is called off-label marketing. Yet, 2 million children are currently being prescribed psychiatry's most...

Obsessive parrot gets Prozac therapy for rage attacks

Having over-loving and over-protective pets can be a nuisance. A woman from Devon, UK, has experienced a rage attack from her parrot pet every time her husband tried to get near her. The bird had to be put on avian...

Parrot given Prozac after owner dies

Polly needs a therapist or, barring that, a good extended health plan."Fred, an African Grey parrot, was owned by George Dance, who had rasied him from a chick.After he died nine months ago, Fred became depressed...

Bailout Bill Includes Cheap Prozac and Therapy

The landmark $700 billion bailout bill, which was recently passed to stave off an economic recession and save Wall Street, also includes another bonus for executives: a deal on their Prozac to help them through...

UK NHS and clinical depression: going beyond Prozac?

Once silenced from public debate, clinical depression and the official emphasis on cognitive behaviour as a cure have come under scrutinity . Therapists attending a Conference at University of East Anglia claim wider access to less...

Why Prozac ain't all that

Antidepressants have been garnering a lot of bad press lately, and here's some more. Scientists are beginning to understand depression in a radical new way that downplays the importance of neurochemicals, and thus...

Widow: My husband died from online drugs

"WICHITA, Kansas (CNN) -- She found her husband on their bed in a pool of his own vomit, dead from an accidental overdose of drugs he received from an online pharmacy....

Anti-depressants 'of little use'

New research suggests that antidepressants like Prozac may not be an effective first-line treatment for mild depression.  The drugs may only be useful in more extreme cases, the study suggests. So does this...

Suicidal pets prescribed Prozac

Now our over-prescribed culture extends to the animal world, as pets become the latest targets of pharmaceutical companies. Because self-mutilating cockatoos need Prozac too, apparently.Also, check out today's...

Depressing Future Awaits Companion Animals

Today, I read an article that appeared in yesterday’s Telegraph. It contained this disturbing news: More and more suicidal pets are being prescribed anti-depressants.This news comes only less than a week after a report in the New York Times about the antidepressant Prozac...

Baby Damaged By Drugs In Foster Home

"Wednesday, December 20, 2000 California: Baby damaged by drugs in foster home $4 million settlement proposed for child with brain damage LOS ANGELES - The county should pay $4 million to care for a child who...

Puppy Prozac - Gimme a Break!

As pharmaceutical companies are wont to do, here is yet another way to squeeze a dollar out of people who value and adore their dogs.  This time it's for "separation anxiety.""Depression and related disorders...

Prozac for Your Dog

"Anxiety-ridden dogs that go berserk when left alone by their owners will soon have a new treatment option--a reformulated version of the antidepressant Prozac, known generically as fluoxetine. To be marketed...

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...

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