The Evidence, However, Is Clear...The Seroxat Scandal
Author : Bob Fiddaman
Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1849911207
Antidepressed
Author : Beverley Thomson
Publisher : Hatherleigh Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 157826927X
Book Description
A COMPREHENSIVE WAKE-UP CALL FOR PATIENTS AND PROFESSIONALS Antidepressed breaks down the growing issue of antidepressant use, harm and dependence—how we got to this point, what’s happening worldwide every single day, and most importantly, where we go from here. Providing information that both patients and mental health professionals desperately need, Antidepressed exposes the holes in mental health systems and highlights the desperate need for reform. Featuring compelling accounts from real people whose lives have been irrevocably harmed by prescription antidepressants, Antidepressed provides proof that there is no such thing as a magic pill—and that pretending otherwise risks the lives and well-being of those who need help the most.
No Other Man
Author : Bob Fiddaman
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1035806215
Book Description
Don Williamson struggles to deal with the void left by a recent relationship breakup when he discovers that a poem he wrote in 2001 inadvertently encrypted a hidden code that the Vatican is trying to crack. Karen Crawford, a Hollywood celebrity who now lives in London, has known for many years that a unique man will come into her life. Her psychic medium friend, Angie Jakobs, told Karen he would be like no other man she had ever met. Neither lady knew when and where this man would appear, but both knew someday he would. Soon they learn that the poem’s secret code is buried deep within the text, pointing to an astronomical event witnessed on an Idaho ranch. The event sparks a hunt for the threesome, an expedition in which the Pope himself participates. Under the protection of guardian angels, the chosen three must avoid Vatican officials and evil forces at work – fallen angels who have misguided the living for many years.
The Serial Killer Whisperer
Author : Pete Earley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1439199043
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Pete Earley—the strange but true story of how a young man’s devastating brain injury gave him the unique ability to connect with the world’s most terrifying criminals. Fifteen-year-old Tony Ciaglia had everything a teenager could want until he suffered a horrific head injury at summer camp. When he emerged from a coma, his right side was paralyzed, he had to relearn how to walk and talk, and he needed countless pills to control his emotions. Abandoned and shunned by his friends, he began writing to serial killers on a whim and discovered that the same traumatic brain injury that made him an outcast to his peers now enabled him to connect emotionally with notorious murderers. Soon many of America’s most dangerous psychopaths were revealing to him heinous details about their crimes—even those they’d never been convicted of. Tony despaired as he found himself inescapably drawn into their violent worlds of murder, rape, and torture—until he found a way to use his gift. Asked by investigators from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to aid in solving a murder, Tony launched his own searches for forgotten victims with clues provided by the killers themselves. The Serial Killer Whisperer takes readers into the minds of murderers like never before, but it also tells the inspiring tale of a struggling American family and a tormented young man who found healing and closure in the most unlikely way—by connecting with monsters.
The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2005-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780215024572
Book Description
Incorporating HC 1030-i to iii.
Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription
Author : Michael P. Hengartner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3030825876
Book Description
This book addresses the over-prescribing of antidepressants in people with mostly mild and subthreshold depression. It outlines the steep increase in antidepressant prescription and critically examines the current scientific evidence on the efficacy and safety of antidepressants in depression. The book is not only concerned with the conflicting views as to whether antidepressants are useful or ineffective in various forms of depression, but also aims at detailing how flaws in the conduct and reporting of antidepressant trials have led to an overestimation of benefits and underestimation of harms. The transformation of the diagnostic concept of depression from a rare but serious disorder to an over-inclusive, highly prevalent but predominantly mild and self-limiting disorder is central to the books argument. It maintains that biological reductionism in psychiatry and pharmaceutical marketing reframed depression as a brain disorder, corroborating the overemphasis on drug treatment in both research and practice. Finally, the author goes on to explore how pharmaceutical companies have distorted the scientific literature on the efficacy and safety of antidepressants and how patient advocacy groups, leading academics, and medical organisations with pervasive financial ties to the industry helped to promote systematically biased benefit-harm evaluations, affecting public attitudes towards antidepressants as well as medical education, training, and practice.
Testing Treatments
Author : Imogen Evans
Publisher : Pinter & Martin Publishers
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1905177488
Book Description
This work provides a thought-provoking account of how medical treatments can be tested with unbiased or 'fair' trials and explains how patients can work with doctors to achieve this vital goal. It spans the gamut of therapy from mastectomy to thalidomide and explores a vast range of case studies.
The Pill That Steals Lives - One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants
Author : Katinka Newman
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1786062259
Book Description
While going through a divorce, documentary filmmaker Katinka Blackford Newman took an antidepressant. Not unusual – except that things didn't turn out quite as she expected. She went into a four-day toxic psychosis with violent hallucinations, imagining she had killed her children, and in fact attacking herself with a knife. Caught up in a real-life nightmare when doctors didn't realise she was suffering side effects of more pills, she went into a year-long decline. Soon she was wandering around in an old dressing gown, unable to care for herself, and dribbling. She nearly lost everything, but luck stepped in; treated at another hospital, she was taken off all the medication and made a miraculous recovery within weeks. By publicising her story, Katinka went on to make some startling discoveries. Could there really be thousands around the world who kill themselves and others from these drugs? What of the billions of dollars in settlements paid out by drug companies? Could they really be the cause of world mass killings, such as the Germanwings pilot who took an airliner down, killing 150, while on exactly the same medication as the author when she became psychotic? And how come so many people are taking these drugs when experts say they are no more effective than a sugarcoated pill for people like her, who are distressed rather than depressed? Moving, frightening and at times funny, this is the story of how a single mum in Harlesden, North-West London, juggles life and her quest for love in order to investigate Big Pharma. For more information visit www.thepillthatsteals.com
The Agency of Children
Author : David Oswell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521843669
Book Description
Uses the idea of children's agency to survey the main issues in childhood studies.
Ethical Conduct of Clinical Research Involving Children
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2004-07-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309133386
Book Description
In recent decades, advances in biomedical research have helped save or lengthen the lives of children around the world. With improved therapies, child and adolescent mortality rates have decreased significantly in the last half century. Despite these advances, pediatricians and others argue that children have not shared equally with adults in biomedical advances. Even though we want children to benefit from the dramatic and accelerating rate of progress in medical care that has been fueled by scientific research, we do not want to place children at risk of being harmed by participating in clinical studies. Ethical Conduct of Clinical Research Involving Children considers the necessities and challenges of this type of research and reviews the ethical and legal standards for conducting it. It also considers problems with the interpretation and application of these standards and conduct, concluding that while children should not be excluded from potentially beneficial clinical studies, some research that is ethically permissible for adults is not acceptable for children, who usually do not have the legal capacity or maturity to make informed decisions about research participation. The book looks at the need for appropriate pediatric expertise at all stages of the design, review, and conduct of a research project to effectively implement policies to protect children. It argues persuasively that a robust system for protecting human research participants in general is a necessary foundation for protecting child research participants in particular.
