Slate Exposes Psychiatry’s Billing Bible; “Bitterness, Compulsive Shopping, and Internet Addiction”
Quite how the association will decide when normal kvetching becomes a sickness—or reasonable amounts of sex become excessive—is still anyone’s guess.
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Must Watch Video for All Parents:Critical Alert about Ritalin and Your Child
A new study shows that Ritalin could increase sudden death in children by 600%, yet the FDA downplayed the study’s findings.
FiercePharma: Drugmaker Eli Lilly nears another settlement over its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa
Twelve state Zyprexa lawsuits remain outstanding, a spokesman told the Health Blog, and this latest settlement effort would wrap up a “subset” of that number.
It’s Not a Mental Illness, It’s Just Life
We can hold the DSM, currently in its fourth edition, responsible for transforming everyday sadness into a medical condition. It now diagnoses human response to loss, save for the death of a loved one, as depression.
Finally! Senate orders study to find out if military suicides are result of troops taking antidepressants
Surveys … have shown that as many as 12 percent of those who are serving in Iraq and 17 percent of those who are serving in Afghanistan are using some form of prescribed antidepressant or sleeping pills