This post links to From Just Say No to Getting to Yes. If I prescribe you a medicine, the science starts when you swallow it. The observers at this experiment are you, your family, friends, people you work or live with – and me. Science is said to be based on Show Me not| RxISK - Making Medicines Safer for All of Us
In Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder on RxISK, I mention that for me a key paper in a reference list of 27 references was one by Ann Bauer and colleagues, who recognized limitations to the epidemiological data but nailed their colours to the mast in saying that there was sufficient evidence here that pregnant women […] The post Bauer Power and Informed Consent first appeared on Dr. David Healy.| Dr. David Healy
On March 20th, Senators Tina Smith and Ben Lujan, and Representatives Andrea Salinas and Becca Balint, sent a letter to the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy, expressing concern about his promotion of disproven and outright false theories about mental health medications. In separate comments, Senator Smith indicated| Dr. David Healy
Understanding Antidepressant Withdrawal © Coral Smith 2025 This post by Harriet Vogt follows on from her recent Ruptures in Clinical Care post The members of Shane Cooke and Mary Hennessey’s antidepressant withdrawal peer support group decided there was more to explore together after our first meeting. They wanted to dig deeper into their experiences of protracted| RxISK - Making Medicines Safer for All of Us
This post follows on from Repairing Ruptures in Clinical Care and the Future of Health App-Ointments. It also links to An Appleby a Day and Tangled up in Bureaucracy. Repairing Ruptures had a lot of comments from Lucy. One of them kicks things off here. Lucy’s Struggle Since waking up to the adverse effects of| RxISK - Making Medicines Safer for All of Us
Better Times Will Return © Josie Russell 2017 This post is by our warzone correspondent Harriet Vogt from frontline trenches. A few weeks ago I was invited to join an online discussion with a group of experts on iatrogenesis who have an in-depth knowledge of antidepressant withdrawal and the risks of polypharmacy. These highly informed,| RxISK - Making Medicines Safer for All of Us
This post is written by Dr Pedro who is watching events unfold from 10,000 miles away - with some extras added at the end. The UK Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has been asked by Katy Skerrett, Senior Coroner for Gloucestershire, to respond to her Regulation 28 report to Prevent Future Deaths, after the| Dr. David Healy
Apologies to all readers outside of Britain who may never have heard about The Pirates of Penzance, definitely not The Pirates of the Caribbean. PoP though has a famous song - I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General - featuring a dimwit General who knows everything about everything except military strategy. This post| RxISK - Making Medicines Safer for All of Us
Up to 1980, the pharmaceutical industry was small beer. Most of the companies had recently demerged from chemical companies, and were hiring management consultants to help them work out how to do the job. A steady stream of life-saving drugs from the 1940s to 1960s that people and health services were willing to buy at| RxISK - Making Medicines Safer for All of Us
Nearly 400 years ago Rene Descartes dramatically changed our view of ourselves in ways that have caused problems ever since. The change is caught in this famous image which illustrates what Descartes viewed as an obvious fact we could depend on. If our foot strays too near a flame, an image of the flame runs| Dr. David Healy
Be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. William Shakespeare: Macbeth A storm blew up just over a week ago with a Lancet article on antidepressant dependence and withdrawal. Based on company studies, this article| RxISK - Making Medicines Safer for All of Us
The Guardian just ran an article on PSSD - It feels like we've been lobotomized. The following day they surprisingly had two articles on Singulair - Montelukast - hazards Safety fears over asthma drug after young children suffer severe side effect and A healthy kid dies and there has been no change’. For a paper| RxISK - Making Medicines Safer for All of Us
This post runs hand in hand with Women and Children First by Peter Selley. Both posts link to a BMJ Consent Article and Vaccine contre la bronchiolite: Pfizer Essais en zone d'ombre by Ariane Denoyel for Blast, a French investigative journalism unit. Peter Selley first contacted me in April 2020. As I now know Peter| RxISK - Making Medicines Safer for All of Us
This talk was given at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry on October 28. The Video version of HealthCare Gone Mad is linked here. The slides and text are below. There will soon be an official ISEPP link to the talk and a Q and A, which will be| Dr. David Healy
RCPsych President responds to newspaper coverage on antidepressants 24 April 2023 Dr Adrian James, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, has written to national newspapers responding to recent articles erroneously linking antidepressants to suicide. Here is the full text of the letter. “I was disappointed to read your article, which has potential to unjustifiably| Dr. David Healy
