Prescriptions for some of the most powerful psychiatric drugs on the market — so-called “second-generation” antipsychotics, or SGAs — to youth aged 18 and under increased 18-fold in British Columbia alone between 1996 and 2011.
Professor’s invitation to give prestigious lecture in London causes outrage among peers.
The concept of first do no harm has been a foundation of medicine for ages. But now we’re learning doctors and others caring for the nation’s war heroes may actually be doing more harm than good.
While the White House encourages sweeping mental health information programs that will lead to increased drugging, the Vatican is looking into the destructive end-result of mental health diagnosing, spearheading an investigational conference into the harmful effects of prescription psychiatric drugs.
The White House’s sweeping mental health initiatives—which rely on psychiatry’s diagnostic procedures—do not take into account the major controversy currently raging over the lack of science behind psychiatry’s methods of diagnosing mental disorders.