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Rebecca Riley: Tragic Death of a Four-Year-Old From Multiple Psychotropic Medications

By On August 31, 2010 · 26 Comments

Rebecca Riley is a 4-year-old from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who was found dead at the foot of her parents bed, covered by only a blanket, in 2007. Rebecca had been “diagnosed” with ADHD and bipolar disorder since the age of 2 and treated with Seroquel (quetiapine), Depakote (valproic acid), and clonidine, none of which [...]

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Don’t Squeeze the Sharma

By On March 3, 2009 · 4 Comments

I recently became aware of a psychiatrist from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College in London named Tonmoy Sharma, MD, once a prominent academic psychiatrist in England with multiple papers and books who appeared frequently on the BBC. He made hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside consulting and speaking work for drug companies over [...]

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Sex, Drugs, and Seroquel

By On February 25, 2009 · 7 Comments

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 [...]

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Spurious Advance of Antipsychotics, Indeed

By On January 28, 2009 · 1 Comment

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.

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