What patients – and doctors – should know about ‘benzo’ withdrawal
From The Washington Post: “When my primary care doctor prescribed Klonopin to treat my severe anxiety in the months before and after major surgery in...
Norwegian Psychiatry Association misses the point with comment about ‘pill shame’
From Mad in the Netherlands: In the article “ Pill shame in psychiatry is a serious social problem“, the unified board of the NPF lashes out...
Help save MSc Mad Studies at QMU
The Mad Studies MSc programme at Queen Margaret University is under threat. Students are campaigning to save the course, and an open petition has...
International Symposium: Political Abuses of Psychiatry – Ongoing Cases Worldwide
Sessions on the 1st, 2nd and 27th of October, and 10th and 11th of November.
Online, free attendance, 16-20h CEST (Berlin time), 10-14h (New York...
Antidepressants: Number of prescriptions for teenagers has now reached a million
The National World news outlet, which publishes The Scotsman and other papers, has this piece by Hiyah Zaidi on the increasing numbers of UK youths on antidepressants—and the...