A case before the U.S. Supreme Court could surge the psychiatric labelling and drugging...
If the Brackeen v. Halland case currently challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 before the U.S. Supreme Court is successful, Native children...
Prescribers often fail to support patients discontinuing antidepressants, study finds
A majority of patients seeking medical support when discontinuing antidepressants found their prescribing doctors to be unhelpful, according to the results of the second-largest...
The ‘capacity for suicide phenomenon’ and the Mental Capacity Act
This article critically analyses the use of the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) in UK mental health services. It describes a misuse of the MCA...
Global survey leads to new recommendations for deprescribing psychiatric drugs
New recommendations for deprescribing and tapering antidepressants, benzodiazepines, z-drugs, gabapentinoids, and opioids have been made based on input from service users and a global...
The effect of SSRIs on adolescents is not well understood. But prescription numbers are...
This can be considered a companion piece to one I wrote previously, titled ‘How psychiatric drugs create a vicious cycle of effects, more drugs...