What Doctors Don't Tell YouPeople recently prescribed an antidepressant are more likely to commit suicide than those given a prescription more than 30 days earlier, researchers have discovered. ...
* 'We lowered the dose of medicine and two weeks later Julia called to say that the bottom had fallen out: `I'm a witch again.' She felt lousy - pessimistic, angry, demanding.
Women who are very young or pregnant are two population groups who should almost never be prescribed general pharmaceuticals. This is because trials have never been carried out on the biochemical effects of drugs on a small and developing body or on...
The new generation of antidepressants such as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may be more dangerous than their predecessors for the elderly, the most common group of users. ...
The arrival of the SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), such as Prozac, in the early 1990s was greeted by the medical profession as the final solution to depression. Here was a class of drugs that appeared to lift depression
People suffering from major depression can be helped just as well by facing up to and solving their problems as by taking antidepresssants. ...
Over the past 200 years, doctors have prescribed an almost uninterrupted succession of 'addictive' drugs, always in the belief they would not cause dependence or that patients would be mainly responsible if they did.
Prozac is the drug we like to give to our problem children, even if it does make them suicidal. Not that the drug authorities are taking the dangers lightly - the American drugs regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has sprung into...
All classes of antidepressants are dangerous for the elderly to take, and will greatly increase their risk of a fall and fracturing a hip, new research has found. ...
Re WDDTY vol 14 no 3, some years ago the amino-acid L-tryptophan was sold in healthfood stores and used by thousands of people for sleep and stress-related problems. Sadly, L-tryptophan was taken off the market
