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Illinois Shooter was Treated with Psych Meds Prior to Shooting Rampage

2/17/2008 - (NaturalNews) It comes as no surprise to anyone who's been following school shootings all the way back to the Colombine High massacre in Colorado: Every young, male shooter that has gone on a killing spree in the United States also has a history of treatment...

Kevin Miller's New "Generation Rx" Documentary Exposes Mass Betrayal of Children by FDA, Big Pharma

1/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) A new documentary on the dangers of mind-altering drugs will be arriving this year, and the film's creator Kevin Miller was kind enough to send us an advance copy of the film for review. Not many films have the potential to radically reshape...

Antidepressants, Bipolar Disorder and the Chemical Enslavement of Humankind by Drug Companies

1/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) Big Pharma is constantly looking for new ways to develop its markets and generate more profits. This is the inescapable directive of all corporations: Be more profitable, regardless of the cost to society. In Big Pharma's case, the pursuit...

Ritalin stunts growth of children; long-term risk to children's health unknown

7/23/2007 - New research published in the August, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds that Ritalin, the amphetamine drug used to treat a fictitious medical disorder labeled Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,...

Use of psychotropic drugs for hyperactivity soars over ten years

3/27/2007 - The use of drugs to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) skyrocketed between 1993 and 2003, according to a study in "Health Affairs." The prescription of such drugs nearly quadrupled, while global spending on them increased by a factor...

Antipsychotic drugs cause rapid weight gain, abnormal eating behavior

3/5/2007 - (NaturalNews) Researchers may have discovered why certain antipsychotic medications, such as those used to treat schizophrenia, lead to extreme weight gain. A study published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences" suggests that these...

UK Healthcare Commission: Mental health patients overdosed with prescription psychotropic drugs

1/22/2007 - (NaturalNews) Mental health patients in UK trusts are routinely prescribed medications in excess of the highest recommended dose, and most patients are not granted proper access to consultations with pharmacy staff, according to a new report by the Healthcare...

Neurologist Dr. Fred Baughman talks about the fraud of ADHD and the poisoning of U.S. children

8/30/2006 - Mike: Hello everyone, this is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and I'm talking about the mythical disease known as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and the overmedication of the population, with Dr. Fred Baughman. I want to give you a little background...

Off-label prescribing rampant as doctors give patients amphetamines, psychotropic drugs for weight loss

8/24/2006 - (NaturalNews) Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal reported that many doctors engage in "off-label" drug prescribing to help patients lose weight, which involves prescribing medications for weight loss that have not been approved by the FDA for that...

Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States? (PLoS Medicine)

6/12/2006 - Editor's note: This is a technical article reprinted, with permission, from the PLoS Medicine Journal (a peer-reviewed, open-access medical journal that's bucking the system by daring to print the truth about drugs, depression and pharmaceuticals). This...

Outrage! Preschoolers used as guinea pigs in psychotropic drug tests

5/18/2006 - As ClinicalTrials.gov reveals, in 2005, Massachusetts General Hospital conducted an 8-week trial study that recruited children as young as four years old to be drugged and monitored, including having their blood drawn, to see if their tiny four-year-old...

Introducing nine new made-up diseases for drug companies to exploit with mind-altering drugs (satire)

9/7/2005 - As the drug companies are running out of real diseases to boost their pharmaceutical sales, they're increasingly inventing new, fictitious diseases in order to scare people into thinking they have some sort of disorder or dysfunction. Attention-Deficit...

Psychiatric Drugs: Chemical Warfare on Humans - interview with Robert Whitaker

8/27/2005 - The following is a Street Spirit interview with Robert Whitaker, author of Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill. It is reprinted here with permission from the Street Spirit in Oakland, California....

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