
Will $2.2 Billion Risperdal Settlement Change Anything? (not likely…)
Reporting on Health – November 7, 2013 By Martha Rosenberg On the surface, Johnson & Johnson’s $2.2 billion settlement this week for illegally marketing drugs…
Reporting on Health – November 7, 2013 By Martha Rosenberg On the surface, Johnson & Johnson’s $2.2 billion settlement this week for illegally marketing drugs…
Fair Warning—November 5, 2013 Settlement ends U.S. criminal and civil investigations into drug giant’s marketing of Risperdal. Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay more than…
CCHR Co-founder Dr. Thomas Szasz Dr. Thomas Szasz is a Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York, Adjunct Scholar at the…
There have been recent calls for a national Mental Health Registry, and then additional calls to link such a registry to gun licensing. In the dreadful wake of Newtown, both the left and the right and the current US federal administration are demanding that we tighten mental health statutes to make it easier and even mandatory for health care providers including psychiatrists and psychotherapists to incarcerate people on suspicion of perpetrating violence.
In a recent blog, I evaluated all the ways psychiatry and individual psychiatrists already have too much authority to lock up American citizens. I’ve pointed out how ineffective that power has proven in preventing violence.
From the cradle to the grave, we are bombarded with dangerous psychiatric drugs. It’s unrelenting.
The latest news covers the use of anti-psychotic drugs prescribed to elderly patients in care homes.