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Dan Carlat MD has just come out with a book on American psychiatry that has got a lot of people talking. In Unhinged: The Trouble With Psychiatry – A Doctor’s Revelations About a Profession in Crisis Dr. Carlat describes the practices of the typical psychiatrist. In order to generate the most income, most [...]
Last Thursday I appeared on the TruTV program In Session to talk about the case of the psychotic killer Mark Becker. Becker was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and had several hospitalizations for psychotic and violent behavior, and rarely took his medications when he was out of the hospital.
On June 20, 2009, [...]
Kudos to Philip Dawdy at the Furious Seasons blog for his original reporting on the litigation behind the antipsychotic drug Seroquel (quetiapine). Thousands of people have brought lawsuits against the maker of Seroquel, Astrazenica, because the drug was pushed off label for the treament of conditions other than schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, the [...]
An article from the Jan. 3 2009 issue of The Lancet used a meta analysis to show that so-called first generation antipsychotics (FGAs) and second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are not that much different in terms of efficacy, safety, and side effect profiles. The purported superiority of SGAs for negative symptoms and fewer side effects for SGAs were primarily the results of comparator studies that put them up against high dose haloperidol.
After posting about the increase in psychotropic drug use in children and commenting that doctors should stop giving antipsychotics to children without schizophrenia I got some words of praise from Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons and some interesting information from Lisa Van Syckel who gave me a list of ages and drugs [...]
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