Can calling your mom worsen your symptoms if you’re a schizophrenic? Or does taking antipsychotic medicine help you to remember to call your mom more often? One of those possibilities seems to be the claim in this ad for AstraZeneca (AZN)’s Seroquel, an antipsychotic that has been the subject of 10,399 lawsuits
Twenty-one years ago today I awoke naked in a seclusion room at Clinton Valley Center, a Michigan state psychiatric hospital. I had just managed to live through the worst night of my life, and upon regaining consciousness I thought that I had died and gone to hell. For three days I was in that little cell while my breast milk painfully dried up and I was overdosed by the attending nurses with Haldol, an anti-psychotic drug.
Antidepressant use in Australia has soared by almost 40 per cent over the past six years, with more than 16 million prescriptions issued.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the pharmaceutical giant responsible for medications like Advair, Geritol and Zantac, has seen an increased number of lawsuits related to SSRI birth defects stemming from its popular antidepressant, Paxil.
The apparent suicide of 7-year-old boy Gabriel Myers, who was taking several psychiatric medications, has led to the introduction of a bill in the Florida legislature, which would assure that powerful mental health drugs dispensed to Florida foster care children would be more closely monitored.