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01/29/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Exposing the junk science behind the mental health racket: A look at the hoax behind the toxic medicines used to treat “mental disorders”

Psychiatry might sound like a science, but it’s not quite as cut and dried as other areas of medicine, and that’s something you might want to think about before blindly accepting any psychiatric diagnoses a doctor gives you – and especially before you start taking any psychiatric medications. Mental disorders can be quite subjective, after […]

08/02/2016 / By Vicki Batts

Doctor claims almost all psych drug use is unnecessary; over 5 million psych med victims

Over half a million senior citizens die each year from their psychiatric drug use. To make matters worse, most of these drugs don’t even provide worthwhile benefits to the patients for whom they are prescribed. A study from the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Denmark — led by professor and center director Peter Gotzche — has revealed […]

12/17/2015 / By Julian Kramer

Number of toddlers being prescribed dangerous antipsychotic drugs increases 50% in one year

Children as young as two years old and below are increasingly being given powerful antipsychotic drugs meant for adults, according to Alan Schwarz of The New York Times. In 2014, nearly 20,000 prescriptions for several different antipsychotic medications, including Risperdal and Seroquel, were written for toddlers aged two and below. That’s a 50 percent increase […]

12/01/2015 / By Julie Wilson

1 in 10 Americans prescribed antidepressants that eliminate free will

Twentieth century civilization is far more drugged up than ever before — and it’s not illegal drugs that have taken over society. Nowadays, man-made prescription drugs that have made the pharmaceutical industry filthy rich are being widely administered among the populace. An estimated one out of 10 Americans is on some type of antidepressant drug – a […]

10/14/2015 / By Julie Wilson

Are overprescribed antidepressants causing cancer?

Shockingly, one in 10 Americans is prescribed some type of antidepressant, with those numbers reaching one in four for women in their forties and fifties, according to The New York Times. The fact that such a large portion of the U.S. is on antidepressants is incredibly alarming when considering the multitude of side-effects caused by […]

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