Big Pharma Worries About Online PR

by | Nov 16, 2010 | Psychiatric Drugs

Big pharma has a PR problem. This was a topic of concern at ExL Pharma’s Digital Pharma conference last month.   Specifically discussed, were the lawsuits filed against AstraZenca concerning side effects from their antipsychotic, Seroquel. An article in the...
Feds Eye High Prescribers

Feds Eye High Prescribers

by | Nov 16, 2010 | Psychiatric Drugs

U.S. Grassley’s investigation started with a Miami Psychiatrist who wrote $43 Million worth of prescriptions from 2004-2009.  It was calculated that psychiatrist Fernando Mendez-Villamil wrote an average of 153 prescriptions a day for 18 months ending in March...
Feds Eye High Prescribers

Marketing Over Safety

by | Oct 28, 2010 | Children and Teens, Elderly, Psychiatric Drugs

Did you know that drug companies make 14.6 BILLION dollars annually on just antipsychotics alone?  That’s more than any other class of drug.  It didn’t used to be that way.  Antipsychotics used to be prescribed only for the severely “mentally ill” but now according to...

MedWatch

by | Aug 14, 2009 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Drugs

 MedWatch Written by Mental Health Advocate and Executive Director of The Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida Laurie Anspach Psychiatry would have us believe that children can be justifiably used as guinea pigs for their experimental use of mind-altering...