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Antidepressants Useless: FOIA Request Gets Data That Proves It

  By ironman45 | March 9, 2012 - 6:39 pm | crooked health care, depression
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It’s bad enough that antidepressants don’t work. But the fact that Big Pharma has known all along has now been proven. It took a Freedom of Information Act request to get the data, but now that we have it, there is no way that the mass use of antidepressants can possibly be justified, especially in light of the massive amount of harm they do. (more…)

Study: Placebo performs as well as antidepressant drugs in treating depression

  By ironman45 | January 17, 2012 - 11:11 pm | crooked health care, depression
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The more that researchers truly study the effects of antidepressant drugs on depression patients, the more it becomes painfully obvious that these mind-altering medications are utterly useless. A new study conducted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed that antidepressant drugs work no better than talk therapy, placebo pills, or basically anything else, at relieving depression. (more…)

Critical update to scientific literature: No evidence for effectiveness of anti-depressants in treating mild depression

  By ironman45 | January 17, 2012 - 6:24 am | crooked health care, depression
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In what is being called a critical update of the current literature, Ulrich Hegerl, MD, of the University of Leipzig in Germany summarizes what current scientific studies have revealed regarding the efficacy of anti-depressant medication in treating mild depression. What does the research add up to? Nothing. (more…)

How Antidepressants May Hurt Your Arteries

  By ironman45 | January 15, 2012 - 7:36 pm | depression, heart disease
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A number of weeks ago, I told you about a surprising and dangerous side effect of certain antidepressants — they can mess up your heart’s rhythm (see the December 1, 2011 issue of Daily Health News). Today, I need to warn you about another little-known way that antidepressants may hurt your cardiovascular system — they may thicken your artery walls. Few studies to date have examined this phenomenon, yet it poses a serious health risk. Narrowed arteries raise your risk for heart attack and stroke. Anyone taking an antidepressant should have this information. (more…)

Psychotropic medication causes psychosis, illness, and death

  By ironman45 | December 21, 2011 - 4:53 am | Austism/ADD, depression, stress
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Psychiatry has gone from talk therapy to writing a prescription for drugs. This has increased the profits of Big Pharma, attracted patients looking for magic fixes, and has legitimized psychiatry as a medical science. But is it really medical science? There is more mental illness now than ever, much of it exacerbated or even caused by prescribed medications. (more…)

How to avoid being like the 11 percent of Americans who now take antidepressant drugs every day

  By ironman45 | October 24, 2011 - 8:13 pm | depression
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The admitted goal of the pharmaceutical industry is to have every man, woman and child in America taking at least two prescription medications every day of their lives (whether they’re sick or not). Through Big Pharma’s corruption of the FDA, medical journals, med schools and the mainstream media, it creeps ever closer to accomplishing that goal, and today it has been revealed that one in ten Americans are now on SSRI antidepressant drugs. (more…)

Study: 80 percent of antidepressant prescriptions are written for people without psychiatric conditions

  By ironman45 | August 17, 2011 - 12:34 pm | crooked health care
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There is a reason why antidepressants have become the third most commonly prescribed class of medications in the US, and it has nothing to do with their supposed efficacy (antidepressants do not actually work). According to a recent study published in the journal Health Affairs, nearly 80 percent of antidepressant drugs administered today are prescribed to people who do not even have psychiatric conditions.
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