News of Anti-Psych Forum

Position Statement on Mental Health Screening: TeenScreen, a Marketing Strategy/

November 1, 2005

The ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) opposes government policies requiring or promoting mental health screening of America's infants, toddlers and school children. Our opposition is informed by scientific, legal, ethical, and common sense considerations.

1) The primary catalyst for both TeenScreen and for the prescribing guidelines, known as TMAP is market expansion.

Both TeenScreen and TMAP (the Texas Medication Algorithm Project) ...

I truely believe from experience of people around me that drugs dont solve actual root of the problems that makes someone ill in the first place.

Then people are kept on drugs for years, and they get so dependent on the drugs that they start to think its the drugs thats keeping them well, when its not, it could just be them getting themselves better.

I really think that drugs are given out too ...

Epidemiologist Says Most Published Research Findings Are False - Psychiatrist Addresses Credibility Crisis

Sat, 8 Oct 2005

An article published in PLoS Medical (an Open Access Peer Reviewed Medical Journal) by an epidemiologist who holds academic positions on both sides of the Atlantic--at the University of Ioannina (Greece) and Tufts University (Massachusetts)-- knocks the socks off much of what passes the peer review process of medical journals.

Dr. John Ioannidis examines, what he says are ...

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OCTOBER 24, 2005
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Government Drops Corrupt Mental-Illness Drug Program
GAP Client Allen Jones Vindicated After Years of Voicing Concerns of Financial Corruption



WASHINGTON – The director of the federal government’s mental health agency announced last week that his department no longer endorses the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), a controversial drug treatment regime supported by President Bush. The ...

The FDA Exposed: An Interview With Dr. David Graham, the Vioxx Whistleblower
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
http://www.newstarget.com/011401.html
The FDA Exposed: An Interview With Dr. David Graham, the Vioxx Whistleblower
The following interview with Dr. David Graham (senior drug safety researcher at the FDA) was conducted by Manette Loudon, the lead investigator for Dr. Gary Null. This interview contains jaw-dropping insights about the corruption and crimes that take place every ...

Drug Lobby Second to None
Special Report
Drug Lobby Second to None
How the pharmaceutical industry gets its way in Washington
By M. Asif Ismail
WASHINGTON, July 7, 2005 — The pharmaceutical and health products industry has spent more than $800 million in federal lobbying and campaign donations at the federal and state levels in the past seven years, a Center for Public Integrity investigation has found. Its lobbying operation, on which it reports spending ...

Thought this would be of interest even though the meetings are being held yesterday and today (Oct. 25-26). (See http://www.fda.gov/oc/advisory/accalend ... 52605.html.) At least we can keep our eyes and ears open to hear what happens :-). I sent a letter to the contact person anyway and although I didn't hear back from her yet, I did get a response from ...

Just Say No to Psychiatric Oppression."

MindFreedom Announces
MindFreedom Shield Program

With the re-election of President Bush, advocates for the human rights of people affected by the mental health system are preparing for the worst.

Today, MindFreedom International, an independent non-profit coalition of 100 grassroots groups, is launching the MindFreedom Shield Program to defend members from an expected increase in coerced and forced psychiatric procedures.

President Bush has endorsed a drug company plan to screen ...

Please click on the link below. I hope you have a pdf reader.

http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/ ... record.pdf

Any comments would be appreciated.

Suicide Rate Unchanged in 10 Years--JAMA / AMA Considers Stand Against Warning Labels on Antidepressants

Thu, 9 Jun 2005

A major report in the Journal of the American Medical Association shatters all claims about the effectiveness of antidepressants as a treatment for the prevention of suicide. A comparison of the suicide data in the US between 1990-1992 and 2001-2003, by two Harvard led surveys is a stunning reality check. The evidence is compelling:

"No ...