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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour – Tony’s Story – 03/06/13

This is the most difficult and most heartfelt radio interview I have ever conducted. I talk with the surviving wife and the surviving mother of Tony Orban, an outstanding soldier and police officer driven to tragic violence and then to suicide by the antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline). As Tony’s medical expert I grew to know and to care about him and his family. A poignant reminder of the human cost of violence induced by psychiatric drugs.

The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour – Tony’s Story – 03/06/13
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution





via Ann Blake-Tracy's website SSRI Stories:

Police: Officer showed anger, boredom during alleged rape

Summary:

Paragraph 21 reads:  "Orban also told police that he had taken two anti-depressants that morning, Zoloft and Neurontin, before spending the hours leading up to attack drinking beer and margaritas with his old friend, Jelinek."

SSRI Stories Note:  The Physicians Desk Reference states: antidepressants can cause a craving for alcohol and alcohol abuse.  Also, the liver cannot metabolize the antidepressant and the alcohol simultaneously,  thus leading to higher levels of both alcohol and the antidepressant in the human body. Also, the mania caused by the Zoloft can result in violence and hostility. 

Soldier Cases this is just a fraction of them...
Suicide SSRIs 2008-05-05 Iraq/U.S.A. ++Soldiers Have More Post War SuicidesThan Combat Deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan
Crime Against Humanity Chantix 2008-06-17 U.S.A. ++Soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Recruited to Test Drug the FDA Says Causes Suicide
Suicides Not Mentioned 2010-04-04 Iraq/Afghan/U.S.A. ++Soldiers: Suicides Among 20 to 24 Year Olds: 4 Times the Average: FDA Black Box For Suicidality
Ineffective SSRIs & Atypical Antipsychotic As Add-On 2011-08-30 Global ++Soldiers: 89% of Soldiers with PTSD are Taking SSRIs: Add-On of Atypical A/P Ineffective
Mania, Suicide & Violence SSRIs & SNRIs 2010-02-25 Iraq/Afghan/U.S.A. ++Soldiers: Veteran's Govt. Meeting: More Soldiers Kill Themselves Than Killed in Combat
Murder Med For Depression 2009-07-28 Iraq/Texas +Soldier Kills 5 at Baghdad Psychiatric Center on May 11th, 2009
Murder-Suicide Antidepressant 2010-08-19 Iraq/Wisconsin +Soldier, Served in Iraq: Now With National Guard Kills Wife, Child & Self: On A/D's For Two Weeks
Death Paxil/Seroquel & Benzo 2008-06-08 U.S.A. +Soldiers [Twelve] Die in Sleep from PTSD Meds As Uncovered by the Father of One of the Soldiers
Suicides SSRIs 2010-02-24 Iraq/Afghan/U.S.A. +Soldiers: Dept. of Defense Studying Link Between High Suicide Rate Among Vets & Medications
Murder Med for Depression 1999-09-03 Kentucky Soldier Accused of Beating Fellow Soldier
Murder Attempt Antidepressant & 14 Other Meds for PTSD 2010-04-27 Iraq/Nevada Soldier Ambushes Deputy

via Salem-News.com:

Jun-07-2008 15:50

Dr. Phil Leveque 

The VA is more dangerous than a battle in Iraq.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - It appears that battle veterans are getting it in the neck again (I'm saying this because this is a family Website).

Around June 1st 2008, The Charleston North Carolina, Gazette newspaper reported four battle veterans with PTSD dying from prescriptions given them by VA clinics. The medications wrere Paxil, Klonopin and Seroquel.

The father of one of the victims, Stan White, researched this and found eight more dead victims in the Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia area. This doesn't seem to bother the VA but we/somebody should question on what is going on. As a physician/pharmacist and victim of VA hospital medical abuse, I think I know what is causing these deaths and I believe these reports are the "tip of the iceberg". Whoever is "taking care" of these battle veterans and I believe it is psychologists or social workers rather than physician/psychiatrists.

Therein lies the problem. A medical adage is, if one pill doesn't work, take two and if that still doesn't work take more ir add a similar medication. This is standard operating procedure (SOP) in the VA rather than good medical care. The combination can be/is lethal.

The deaths of those 12 veterans should be a red flag of danger but I suspect VA psychologists are color blind also.

The article in the newspaper brought about 17 letters to the editor which indicate the readers know more than the VA caretakers.

one writer wrote "Seroquel turns one into a zombie". A physician, Dr. Ann Blake Tracy wrote "two of this type of drug should never be given together." She questions the rationale of the "doctors".

Another mother wrote of her son's death from Zyprexa v which is in the same family.

Another wrote of the recent article that anti-depressants don't work. Another relates the same of Progentin which was pulled from use.

It is time for a real evaluation of VA treatment for PTSD battle veterans. Although they represent less than one percent of the population, they produce 20 percent of the deaths by suicide- multiple tragedies.

Yes, treatment by the VA is far more dangerous than combat in Baghdad. Hoorah and blessings to my brothers in the Infantry.

As a final statement, my 400+ Vietnam Veterans say marijuana works better (and safer) than ANY of the above drugs. 

                                                   

Got a question or comment for Dr. Leveque?

Email him: Newsroom@Salem-News.com

More information on the history of Leveque can be found in his book,General Patton's Dogface Soldier of Phil Leveque about his experiences in WWII.Order the book by mail by following this link: Dogface Soldier.

If you are a World War II history buff, you don't want to miss it.

hat tip: Ginger Breggin

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— Ginger Breggin (@GingerBreggin) March 6, 2013

The Drugging of U.S. Troops

Broken Warriors is an ongoing series on mental health issues in the military.

via NextGov:

ARMY WARNS DOCTORS AGAINST USING CERTAIN DRUGS IN PTSD TREATMENT

By Bob Brewin April 25, 2012
Flickr user deanslife 

The Army Surgeon General's office is backing away from its long-standing endorsement of prescribing troops multiple highly addictive psychotropic drugs for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and early this month warned regional medical commanders against using tranquilizers such as Xanax and Valium to treat PTSD.

An April 10 policy memo that the Army Medical Command released regarding the diagnosis and treatment of PTSD said a class of drugs known as benzodiazepines, which include Xanax and Valium, could intensify rather than reduce combat stress symptoms and lead to addiction.

The memo, signed by Herbert Coley, civilian chief of staff of the Army Medical Command, also cautioned service clinicians against prescribing second-generation antipsychotic drugs, such as Seroquel and Risperidone, to combat PTSD. The drugs originally were developed to treat severe mental conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The memo questioned the efficacy of this drug class in PTSD treatment and cautioned against their use due to potential long-term health effects, which include heart disorders, muscle spasms and weight gain.

Throughout more than a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the military services have relied heavily on prescription drugs to help troops deal with their mental health problems during and after deployment. In a June 2010 report, the Defense Department's Pharmacoeconomic Center said 213,972, or 20 percent of the 1.1 million active-duty troops surveyed, were taking some form of psychotropic drug -- antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedative hypnotics or other controlled substances.

The Army, in a July 2010 report on suicide prevention, said one-third of all active-duty military suicides involved prescription drugs.

Seeding Trials planned in an effort to validate current clinical practice

On April 27th I wrote about the Army's Surgeon General, warning against the use of neuroleptic and other psychotropic drugs to treat the symptoms of PTSD. Today, I see a link to Army launches study of PTSD Meds on the Mad in America site---I can't help but think this is a response to the Army Surgeon General's office backing away from it's long standing endorsement of using psychotropic drugs to treat PTSD. Herbert Coley, civilian chief of staff of the Army's Medical Command issued a memo citing lack of efficacy and the serious risks of using neuroleptic and other addictive neurotoxins as the reason for issuing a warning against using psychiatric drugs to treat PTSD. This current announcement was made initially at the American Psychiatric Association's meeting in Philadelphia on May 5th by Army Maj. Gary Wynn of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and Col. David Benedik, associate director for the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and reported in Air Force Times appears to be announcing a plan to conduct 'seeding trials.' Seeding Trials are drug trials conducted with the primary goal of validating 'off-label' prescribing practices, gaining FDA approval to use a drug for a different symptom, and EXPAND THE DRUG MARKET. Obviously, this is unethical, This decision announced at the APA convention should be recognized as a decision to continue serving the profit interests of the drug industry, it cannot be a decision made with the well-being and recovery of Veterans experiencing PTSD as the primary focus. I wonder if Veteran's recovery was considered at all...

I cannot help but be amazed at how openly it is being acknowledged that the drugs used 'off-label' to treat PTSD without any definitive evidence to support using the drugs this way; is in fact a Standard Practice.  Using psychiatric drugs 'off-label' is not a decision  based on objective scientific data or ethical medical standards; it is based on Standard Practices and practice parameters which were adopted in the absence of objective, empirical evidence to support or validate them; ignoring fundamental, ethical medical principles.  Specifically, the principle that treatments used in Standard Practice are supposed to be derived from valid evidence of efficacy...including a risk profile which is justified by the actual benefits achieved.  The article in the Air Force Times makes it crystal clear that the treatment of PTSD for Veterans with neurotoxic psychiatric drugs is not now, and has never been based on Scientific Evidence or sound medical judgement.  

It is Human Experimentation to use drugs or other  treatments without valid evidence of effectiveness  and safety... This means that ethical medical principles are not being used when psychiatric drugs are prescribed 'off-label.'   Psychiatric treatment using drugs "off-label" that is not based on any valid or relevant evidence ignores sound medical reasoning altogether.  Small wonder the  bio-disease paradigm is an abject failure in terms of providing ethical, effective patient-centered care. Ethical clinical care requires that treatment decisions be based on ethical medical principles.  Fundamental principles of providing ethical clinical care require a clinician's primary focus be the individual patient's best interest.  This requires an honest dialogue which is respectful and honest. A professional has a duty to fully inform the patient about the diagnosis and the treatment options, which includes doing nothing; i.e. no treatment.  Informed Consent must be obtained without coercion or fraudulent claims and informing the patient about the potential risks and the possible benefits truthfully; and includes supporting the person who makes the decision to consult others of their own choosing.  Informed Consent is obtained prior to treatment starting, and is it is not a final decision; but is supposed to be an ongoing dialogue. Consent can be withdrawn without fear of or threat of punitive action, coercion or abuse of authority.

Three sentences in the article in particular indicate that treatment of PTSD with psychiatric drugs is without scientific validity; making it experimental treatment:

1. "But little data exists on which “off-label” medications work and which don’t."  

2. "Physicians still assess their patients and treat their symptoms based on their own medical experience as well as patient history and treatment preferences." 

3. “We’re trying to advance the science to catch up with clinical practice,” Wynn said. “This effort will seek to provide clinicians with a higher level of evidence when choosing a drug.” 

Theoretically, treatments used in Standard Practice are derived from scientific evidence, e.g. BASED on empirical evidence that a drug is safe and efficacious treatment for the condition it is being prescribed for; with the data supported by subjective observation and opinion.  In the biomedical paradigm of psychiatric care, standard treatment recommendations are overly reliant upon and sometimes entirely derived from subjective opinions.  A consensus of even well-educated opinions is no substitute for scientific evidence, and pretending that it is is ethically and morally reprehensible.   Clinical treatment "standard practices" are often not supported by the evidence; in some cases, the treatment is contraindicated by the clinical trial data making it unethical and unnecessarily risky. 

Psychiatry is using a bio-medical paradigm not grounded in valid research findings

or based on ethical medical principles.

  

via Air Force Times: 

By Patricia Kime - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday May 8, 2012 16:21:49 EDT

Military and Veterans Affairs Department physicians often prescribe medication to ease the symptoms of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder, even though only two antidepressants — Paxil and Zoloft — are approved specifically by the Food and Drug Administration to treat the disorder.

But little data exists on which “off-label” medications work and which don’t. 

The Army is hoping to change this, launching a major research initiative next year on the effectiveness of commonly prescribed medications for PTSD.

Speaking at the American Psychiatric Association meeting in Philadelphia on Monday, Army Maj. Gary Wynn of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and Col. David Benedik, associate director for the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, said the service will start clinical trials next year to evaluate commonly prescribed PTSD medications such as the antidepressant Cymbalta, mirtazapine, prazosin, and atypical antipsychotics like Seroquel.

VA and the Defense Department published joint guidelines in 2010 to provide doctors with assessments of the known research on many psychiatric medications used for PTSD.

But the guidance, which recommends strongly against the use of benzodiazapines like Valium and Xanax and several other medications, is not absolute. Physicians still assess their patients and treat their symptoms based on their own medical experience as well as patient history and treatment preferences.

Often this means prescribing medications developed to treat other mental conditions.

The Army research will test commonly prescribed medications over the next several years at multiple sites with hundreds of service members and veterans.

“We’re trying to advance the science to catch up with clinical practice,” Wynn said. “This effort will seek to provide clinicians with a higher level of evidence when choosing a drug.”

Wynn and Benedik hope their efforts will lead to better treatments for PTSD in both combat veterans and civilians.

“For pharmaceuticals that show benefits in treating combat-related PTSD, the Department of Defense may work toward a new indication or change in labeling,” Wynn said.

Published results from the first trial are expected by 2016.

First-Line Pharmacological Treatment For PTSD: Developed From Insufficient Evidence

Do neuroleptics like Seroquel and Risperdal, have a valid medical purpose used "off-label"?

Champions of Change? God Bless America and Protect Her Defenders...

FYI:

What is an Award? Two awards, one is unearned and one is earned heroically

via: NIMH
For the second time in less than a year, the National Institute of Mental Health and its researchers have been honored by the White House. On August 25th, NIMH and eight suicide prevention organizations were named recipients of the administration’s Champions of Change initiative.  here is what I thought of this God Bless America  This announcement bothered me on so many levels.  I wondered, how much is this collaboration costing?  So I found out.

via NIMH: NIMH and the U.S. Army have entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) to conduct research that will help the Army reduce the rate of suicides. NIMH Director Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Army Secretary Pete Geren, and Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. signed the MOA on October 23, 2008.

The MOA allows for a $50-million, multi-year study on suicide and suicidal behavior among soldiers, across all phases of Army service. It will be the largest single study on the subject of suicide that NIMH has ever undertaken.

The joint project will strengthen the Army’s efforts to reduce suicide among its soldiers by identifying risk and protective factors for suicidal thinking and behavior. It will help the Army develop more effective intervention programs and target them where they are most needed.

Benefits of the study will go beyond the Army. The study’s findings will also inform our understanding of suicide in the U.S. population overall, and may lead to more effective interventions for both soldiers and civilians. Every year, an average of 30,000 Americans die by suicide.

Specific details of the project are still being worked out in the NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research.

STARRS The Army Study to Access Risk and Resilience in Service Members at NIMH


via Army STARRS a nonprofit website:

Army Study To Assess Risk and Resilience in Service members

Army STARRS is the largest study of mental health risk and resilience ever conducted among military personnel.

Beginning in 2011, Army STARRS investigators will look for factors that help protect a Soldier’s mental health and those factors that put a Soldier’s mental health at risk. Army STARRS is a five-year study that will run through 2014; however, research findings will be reported as they become available so that they may be applied to ongoing health promotion, risk reduction, and suicide prevention efforts. Because promoting mental health and reducing suicide risk are important for all Americans; the findings from Army STARRS will benefit not only servicemembers but the nation as a whole.

Army STARRS Preliminary Data Reveal Some Potential Predictive Factors for Suicide

Early examination of data from the U.S. Army’s Total Army Injury and Health Outcomes Database (TAIHOD) has revealed potential predictors of risk for suicide among soldiers. Preliminary results were provided by researchers leading the ongoing Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). Army STARRS, a partnership between NIMH and the U.S. Army, is the largest study of mental health risk and resilience ever conducted among military personnel.

The TAIHOD database includes information from Regular Army soldiers (not Guard or Reserve Component soldiers) and covers the period between 2004 and 2008. Army STARRS researchers compared data on all suicides, accidental deaths, and combat deaths in an effort to identify patterns and predictors among the three types of deaths.

The following findings are preliminary. They involve relatively few descriptive predictors and do not account for complex events or interactions. Researchers plan to do additional work with a much larger historical dataset and with survey data from the All Army Study and the New Soldier Study (two Army STARRS components) to test these initial findings.

The main preliminary findings include the following: read here.

                                    What is missing?  

Any mention of the psychotropic drugs used to "treat" symptoms of PTSD, depression, anxiety, etc. as being a factor deserving consideration.   I find it strange that on the Army STARRS website there is no mention of prescription drugs AT ALL-- that I could find.  I would imagine that the TAIHOD database should also be collecting the information about psychotropic drug treatment that the troops are receiving; what drugs and combinations of drugs are prescribed, to those who have attempted or committed suicide/homicide; as well as information about illicit drug and alcohol use.  It is more than strange, (to say the least) that these relevant factors are apparently not being investigated.

Now this is a study that is attempting to determine what factors make an individual resilient; factors such as ethnicity, gender, deployment history are being examined.  The psychotropic drugs prescribed to our troops is a factor, although it is apparently not one being considered.  Psychotropic drugs are still being used as "first line treatment" for symptoms of PTSD, in spite of the fact that this "Standard Practice" in known to be ineffective and costly: it is fiscally, socially and medically unsound; yet it is still Standard Practice.

via Next Gov:"The Veterans Affairs Department continues to issue contracts to purchase an anti-psychotic drug to treat post-traumatic stress disorder despite research showing the drug, risperidone, is no more effective than a placebo."read Va Awards... for debunked PTSD drug

summary:  

This Champions of Change award is given shortly before the half way point of a six year joint collaboration.  In the three years since the Army approached the NIMH, the suicide rate has doubled among Military personel.  We still are losing high numbers of sons and daughters, who have served Our Country to suicide---strangely,  the ineffective and unsafe teratogenic drugs prescribed to troops that are known to cause suicide, are not a factor being investigated.

The fact that psychotropic drugs known to cause suicide are not a factor considered relevant  to this joint endeavor, means that the NIMH deserves special recognition: 

A Champion of Change Award

for changing nothing, is not an earned Award.

via Borepatch: Semper Fi

Thank you for your service to the United States of America Sergeant Meyer!

via The Marines page Medal of Honor

“I am extremely pleased by the news that the President has announced that he will award the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Dakota Meyer.

Sergeant Meyer embodies all that is good about our nation's Corps of Marines. He is a living example of the brave young men and women whose service, fidelity and sacrifice make us so proud.

Sergeant Meyer's heroic actions on September 8, 2009 in the Ganjgal village in Afghanistan serve as an inspiration to all Marines and will forever be etched in our Corps' rich legacy of courage and valor.

Speaking on the behalf of all Marines, I congratulate Sergeant Meyer on this auspicious news and look forward to his award ceremony here in Washington, DC in mid-September.”

— General James F. Amos, 35^th Commandant of the Marine Corps

This isn't about me.  If anything comes out of this for me, it's for those guys."  
Sgt. Dakota Meyer

First-Line Pharmacological Treatment For PTSD: Developed From Insufficient Evidence

"The VA/DoD list of "insufficient evidence" medications is seen as a nod toward the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which in October 2007 released an influential review of the research evidence on PTSD treatments. The report concluded that the strongest evidence of efficacy is for exposure-based therapies...."The article the above quote is from is in Clinical Psychiatry News, it cites a report which concluded there is no virtually no evidence (validated clinical research) to support treating PTSD with ANY psychotropic drugs. Inexplicably, a VA psychiatrist, Gerardo Villareal, is quoted discussing "treatment guidelines;" which ONLY recommend psychotropic drugs; with the only exception occurring in the final sentence of the article. This article states, that as of October 2007, "as for pharmaco-therapy, the quality of the studies up to that point was so flawed that the IOM panel concluded that no evidence-based medication exists for the treatment of PTSD."

Three and one half years later, why are the exposure therapies not considered 'first-line' treatment, since the method was the most effective? Exposure Therapy, according to this report, has, "the strongest evidence of efficacy," yet strangely, is not recommended as a "first-line treatment" for America's traumatized Veterans...Meanwhile prescription drug costs are growing exponentially; drugs are not without serious risks; and apparently are not an effective treatment for PTSD. The psychiatrist quoted in this article states his patients with PTSD tend to take psychiatric drugs for the rest of their lives...

Which begs the question, why are they being prescribed drugs that are known to not be effective for treating PTSD? More importantly, why would Veterans take them for the rest of their lives, is it due to being dependent on them? Psychotropic drugs have inherent risks, including dependence and the potential to cause debilitating disabling iatrogenic illnesses, sudden death, suicide and homicide. This is strange medicine indeed. How did psychotropic drugs become "well established," or even, "front-line treatment" without valid research data supporting their prescription, singularly or concomittantly as a safe or effective treatment for PTSD? The final sentence, (referring to Villareal) states, "He said he strongly encourages his patients to get into a program of exposure-based therapy, which he has found to be quite helpful in reducing polypharmacy."

Why is this 'doctor' not providing the best treatment himself, instead of just writing prescriptions?

Bio-psychiatry's devotion to drugs first, foremost and always, brings to mind a well-known definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. Psychiatry continues to devote the vast majority of resources and energy into pharmaco-therapy, while minimizing or ignoring altogether, other treatment modalities. What happened to the Hippocratic Oath to, "First, do no harm...?" Read the article in Clinical Psychiatry News or here. 


Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy to combat PTSD 

Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder AN ASSESSMENT OF THE EVIDENCE

Putting US Troops In Harms Way: It's Not Accident or Oversight

Psychiatric Drugs Are Killing Our Troops   

It is a known, not uncommon outcome of taking psychiatric drugs for PTSD and/or other psychiatric diagnoses that the drugs cause neurological dysfunction and iatragenic illness; but, do not in fact correct any identified underlying pathology or dysfunction.  Even though the drugs are advertised as "safe and effective," this marketing claim is fraudulent as there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.  Not a single study has ever been published in which it has been definitively concluded that a psychiatric diagnosis is the result of a specific pathology or disease, or neurobiological dysfunction that is responsible for causing the symptoms.  The drugs used are teratogenic;which means, the drugs can actually cause psychiatric symptoms and actual neurobiological diseases. If the etiology is unknown, mental health treatment providers should not be misleading and outright lying to patients or their loved ones. It is entirely inaccurate to state the drugs are treating 'diseases;' it is blatant fraud to state drugs treat either an illusory disease or the symptoms of the illusory disease, in order to gain "treatment compliance." It is false advertising, using propaganda to "educate" patients and the public; it is evidence of perpetrating fraud, not "practicing medicine." 

Some patients report feeling better, and do not develop chronic illness;' this is not the same thing as demonstrating in ethical clinical trials that the drugs are "safe and effective."  Psychiatry and big pharma are doing more than this, they are changing public policy, and molding public attitudes towards "the mentally ill" for the worse to justify forcing them to take deadly drugs no matter what, States have changed laws and public policy using the pharma funded "education and advocacy" campaigners and "grassroots support groups" as Lobbyists, which effects all of us.   That this is all based on pseudo-science, greed, fraud and corruption, is sickening. 


What is clear however, is the drugs do in fact cause a broad range of biological dysfunctions; and ultimately, lead to illness and death for those who take them over any length of time.   Why is this the course that has been taken?  Could it be because E. Fuller Torrey AKA the brain collector, is on the Staff of The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences?--Torrey did NOT earn this position; like everything else in the last couple of decades (since meeting Ted Stanley) it is a position bought and paid for, by the generous Mr. Stanley and The Stanley Family Foundation, isn't it amazing how much influence and social control money can buy?   


In a little over twenty years spending a little more that $300 million on misinformation and propaganda both about "mental illness" and trauma; the psychiatric drugs used to "treat" unpleasant symptoms (and socially unacceptable behaviors) with dangerous drugs possessing very harmful effects, which are called "side effects."   Who pays?  There are the primary victims, some pay with their lives.  The survivors and those who love and take care of them, know that they were used by those driven by greed.  Psychiatric drugs prescribed robbed children, veterans and the elderly, of life, liberty, physical and cognitive abilities, and some have no idea to this day they were lied to about the drugs.  In robbing vulnerable American people of their health, and their lives;  every single American who pays taxes was also robbed.  Tax-dollars that fund the Federal Medicaid and Medicare paid out billions of  to the pharmaceutical industry in fraudulent claims when these two programs paid for 80-90% of the psychiatric drugs prescribed---How is it that even the cost of "uncovered" drugs were paid?  For decades, fraudulently billed claims, for "treatment" of "mental illness" have been inexplicably paid for psychiatric drugs---how is it this was paid for?  Who at CMS determined to pay all claims for psychiatric drugs prescribed NO matter what?.  This fraud has virtually bankrupted Our Nation's publicly funded Medicaid and Medicare systems, Social Service and Child Welfare Systems.  And a lot of people got rich by killing, maiming and defrauding Americans right here in the Good Ol'. US of A.  


Another effect of this loss of life and health is the numbers of those disabled from psychiatric diagnosis and "treatment" is adding Americans to every Federally funded disability insurance/social service payment systems at an alarming rate. SSDI and SSI, receive so many claims, there is a 2 year wait for a initial determination, some are approved after five or more years and receive benefits from the date of application, once finally approved.    The corporate charlatans, and the American Psychiatric Association working in concert have robbed children, the elderly and traumatized veterans of their lives; and defrauded the American People to do it.   In spite of enormous fines paid by the pharmaceutical industry, these crooks are continuing to conduct business as usual.  I want to know how many more lives are we going to let them take?   I would like to know when are unethical prescribers going to jail?  

Psychiatric Drug Trials Serve One Unethical Purpose

To Expand the Market and Increase Corporate Profit 

  It is Experimentation on Human Subjects.

thank you D. Bunker for reporting this...
“In 2009 there were 239 suicides within the Army, including the Reserves, 160 active duty suicides, 146 active duty deaths from drug overdoses and high-risk behavior, and 1,713 suicide attempts, says the Army’s suicide report released in July."


"More troops are dying from their own hands than in combat, says the Army report, titled “Health Promotion, Risk Reduction, and Suicide Prevention.” Thirty-six percent of the suicides were among troops who were never deployed."  


read the whole story at Psychiatry, It's a Killing:  Psychiatric Drugs are a US National Security Problem


The Russians are studying this as a "Weakness in the US Military"  No shit!?!  I wonder why?  NOT!  This is NOT something WE need to "study"  It is something WE must stop--given the scientific fraud, financial fraud, the number killed and disabled, these are obviously NOT "safe and effective" drugs; unless outcomes of death and disability are the new "recovery" offered people experiencing what is called PTSD and "Mental Illness?"


You know, that weirdo Torrey collects Human Brains in real life?  There are families who have brought lawsuits attempting to have loved ones brains returned.  Torrey and his twisted TAC or whatever he calls his  research/Brain Collector Activity.   Two of these families are suing for their loved ones brains being removed by the employee who was gifted to the King County, Washington Office of the Coroner by the Brain Collector.  Two brains were removed, and flown in a private jet to join E. Fuller Torrey's collection of Human Brains.  This freak, E. Fuller Torrey, has kept the brains of victims whose families have sought the return of.  Torrey has WAY more money behind him(thank you Mr. Stanley!) money for lawyers and employees to donate to County Coroners, who without proper authorization, and with seeming impunity, remove the entire brains of the deceased, to send on private jet to E. Fuller Torrey...  


This is only one example of the truly twisted shit this guy comes up with.  Incredibly, according to NAMI, Torrey is a Humanitarian!  That would not be MY diagnosis!  What kind of Humanitarian refuses to return the Brain of a loved one to their grieving family?  NAMI considers the Brain Collector to be THE Lead Researcher of Schizophrenia in the Nation!  He is no Humanitarian, no researcher or even a "doctor" in any real sense.   What he is doing is NOT scientific, not humane, and not "medicine" for fuck's sake!  NAMI National has given The Brain Collector Humanitarian Awards---it makes me sick!  What a truly evil thing to do, collect brains... 


Why is the mainstream press ignoring these stories anyway?  Could it be a lack of Journalism Ethics coupled with a glaring Conflict of Interest?  All of the major "News" Print and TV/Radio/Internet sources receive a nice income from direct-to-consumer advertising and marketing of psychiatric drugs, as well as from the Law firms who are suing the Pharmaceutical Industry on behalf of the victims/survivors of a number of unsafe drugs.


All too often, the psychiatric drugs which are approved by the FDA are approved on insufficient and/or fraudulently obtained or reported data and once approved for any use or population allowed to be used for any and every diagnosis or age group.   Where is the protection in that?  The FDA is not protecting the American people, it is putting them at risk.  By not regulating the use of drugs not safe for children, indeed not "safe and effective" for most adults either; many children have been disabled and have died.  By not requiring physicians and all prescribers to report adverse events, including death, to the Adverse Events data base; some important data is, purposefully not being collected.  The failure to mandate that prescribers of any and all drugs report adverse events potentially related to FDA approved drugs, protects the corrupt drug industry, unethical prescribers and the FDA.  The FDA is failing to collect the data which would quantify how "safe and efficacious" any FDA approved drug is in real world practice.  Seems criminal to me.