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...
opinion by steffanileman | 31 wks ago | updated 31 wks ago 492 views | 54 recommendations | 10 comments
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...
created by Kevin Hall | 33 wks ago | updated 29 wks ago 1130 views | 42 recommendations | 21 comments
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...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 44 wks ago | updated 44 wks ago 127 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
created by mike_yvr | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 166 views | 7 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by Terri Potratz | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 583 views | 18 recommendations | 12 comments
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...
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...
created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 983 views | 22 recommendations | 8 comments
"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....
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...
created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 450 views | 6 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1436 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
"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...
created by NewsBlogger | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 730 views | 0 recommendations | 6 comments
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...
created by Swan | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1177 views | 2 recommendations | 8 comments
"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...
created by ricknight | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1264 views | 17 recommendations | 4 comments
"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...
created by Boston | 2 years ago 181 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments