Posts Tagged ‘ Risperdal ’

Sex and Psych Drugs - Young Couples Beware

June 2nd, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

Although the adverse effects of women taking psychiatric drugs while pregnant related to birth defects and infant withdrawal syndrome are often discussed or reported, the serious adverse effects on the sex lives and reproductive systems of millions of young couples are rarely mentioned.

Whatever the reason, due to the ever widening marketing campaigns by the psycho-pharmaceutical industry, young people need to be warned before they get conned into taking psychiatric drugs.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Cymbalta, Invega, Mothers Act, paxil, Prozac, Risperdal, Seroquel, SSRI, Zyprexa
Posted in Emerging Issues | 14 Comments »

Lawsuits Needed Against Prescribing Quacks

April 24th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

On April 21, 2009, the Miami Herald reported that a 7-year-old boy in Florida, Gabriel Myers, had committed suicide by hanging himself with a detachable shower head in a bathroom of the foster care home he was placed in three weeks earlier.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: ADHD, atypical antipsychotic, bipolar, Eli Lilly, Glaxo, J&J, paxil, Risperdal, Seroquel, SSRI, suicide, Symbyax, Zyprexa
Posted in Emerging Issues | 6 Comments »

Drugging Kids With No Verifiable Disease

April 20th, 2009. By Evelyn Pringle

Psychiatry’s marketing strategy is to invent diagnoses out of thin air and call them diseases as an excuse to prescribe drugs, according to Dr Fred Baughman, author of The ADHD Fraud.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Abilify, Adderall, ADHD, bipolar disorder, Emslie, Risperdal, Seroquel, Zyprexa
Posted in Emerging Issues | 6 Comments »