The DSM—Psychiatry’s Billing Bible
Psychiatry’s Billing Bible: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is…
The biggest Pharma Front Group of all—The American Psychiatric Association—unveil their newest invented mental disorders
The American Psychiatric Association yesterday gave the press an advance view of its proposed Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and the reports were highly skeptical. Will Tiger Woods soon be diagnosed with “hypersexual disorder”? He could be if the proposals go into effect. The APA will be accepting comments through April. The news reports barely noted the fact that dozens of psychiatrists who serve on the DSM-V (it’s the fifth edition) task force and working groups have financial ties to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) Advisory Board
The DBSA was originally the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association (since 2002, called DBSA), one of the major front groups established in 1986 that could…
Scandalous abuse of the elderly: 100,000 prescribed antipsychotics that double risk of death/triple risk of stroke
Three quarters of nurses have seen people with dementia in general wards in hospital prescribed antipsychotic drugs that are known to double the risk of death and triple the risk of a stroke in these patients, research has shown.
Wake Up FDA—Even Drug Giants Are Admitting No Lab Tests Exist To Prove If Antidepressants Work
With drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) now stating it will abandon future antidepressant research, one can only wonder if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration noted GSK’s CEO Andrew Witty’s admission that it is “hard to prove that a depression drug is working” because “patient improvement is measured by subjective mood surveys, and not by the clear-cut blood tests and biological measures used in other diseases.”