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Feature articles on antidepressants:

A Look at How the Field of Psychiatry Is Over-Medicating Our Country

6/5/2008 - (NaturalNews) Over recent years, we in the U.S. have become accustomed to the seemingly never-ending parade of prescription drug commercials on television. It’s surprising to learn that the only two places advertising of this kind is legal is in the United...

Antidepressant Drugs Linked to School Shootings

4/2/2008 - (NaturalNews) A parents' rights organization has called on Congress to investigate a potential link between psychiatric drugs and school shootings, and called for parents to be better informed about the risks of such medications. New York-based Ablechild...

Dangerous Psych Drugs and Pregnancy: Help Stop the Mothers Act

3/24/2008 - The Senate is about to approve legislation Mothers Act – S.1375 (http://www.naturalnews.com/022853.html) which mandates the indoctrination of pregnant and nursing mothers into the use of extremely dangerous psychiatric medication. We already know this...

MOTHERS Act Seeks to Drug Expectant Mothers with Antidepressants to "Treat" Postpartum Depression

3/6/2008 - (NaturalNews) A new law being considered in the U.S. Congress would attempt to prevent postpartum depression in new moms by drugging them with SSRI antidepressant drugs while they're still pregnant. This legislation is being aggressively pushed by pro-pharma...

Chemically-Induced Suicide: 80 Percent of Suicide Victims Took Antidepressant Drugs

2/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) A Swedish writer has accused the National Board of Health and Welfare (NBHW) of covering up evidence suggesting a connection between psychiatric drugs and suicide. Under a recent law, Swedish health-care providers must fill out reports...

Psych Drug Shocker: Antidepressant Drugs Work No Better than Placebo; Big Pharma Hoax Finally Exposed

2/25/2008 - (NaturalNews) The following is a groundbreaking report from the independent, honest medical journal PLoS Medicine (which accepts no advertising money from Big Pharma). The full study, with sources and attributions, can be found at http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050045 This...

Negative Antidepressant Studies Routinely Buried, Research Shows

2/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) According to a recently published article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy, studies showing antidepressants to be effective are published...

Heath Ledger Death Update: Six Pharmaceuticals Found - Antidepressants, Sleep Meds and More

1/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) In a surprising turn of events, the mainstream media has begun to ask the question, "What killed Heath Ledger?" According to the Associated Press, authorities have now stated they found six different prescription drugs in Ledger's apartment....

Kevin Miller's New "Generation Rx" Documentary Exposes Mass Betrayal of Children by FDA, Big Pharma

1/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) A new documentary on the dangers of mind-altering drugs will be arriving this year, and the film's creator Kevin Miller was kind enough to send us an advance copy of the film for review. Not many films have the potential to radically reshape...

Antidepressants, Bipolar Disorder and the Chemical Enslavement of Humankind by Drug Companies

1/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) Big Pharma is constantly looking for new ways to develop its markets and generate more profits. This is the inescapable directive of all corporations: Be more profitable, regardless of the cost to society. In Big Pharma's case, the pursuit...

Depression, Osteoporosis Correlation Misreported by Junk Science Media, Ill-Informed Health Researchers

12/11/2007 - Conventional medical researchers around the world are scratching their heads over new research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine that shows a strong correlation between depression and osteoporosis. Amazingly, none of them apparently have...

Omaha Shooter Robert Hawkins Had Been "Treated" For ADHD, Depression

12/6/2007 - (NaturalNews) America seems shocked that, yet again, a young male would pick up an assault rifle and murder his fellow citizens, then take his own life. This is what happened last night in Omaha, Nebraska, where the 19-year-old Hawkins killed himself...

Are antidepressant drugs an accomplice in the Virginia Tech shootings? (opinion)

4/18/2007 - The Chicago Tribune reports that Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 fellow students in a shooting rampage, was taking antidepressant drugs. This is not the first time a school shooting rampage has been linked to antidepressants. The...

Antipsychotic drugs cause rapid weight gain, abnormal eating behavior

3/5/2007 - (NaturalNews) Researchers may have discovered why certain antipsychotic medications, such as those used to treat schizophrenia, lead to extreme weight gain. A study published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences" suggests that these...

Panel votes to extend antidepressant black box warning to children and teens

1/4/2007 - (NaturalNews) An advisory panel for the FDA recommended that warnings of suicidal thoughts and behavior in adults up to age 25 be put on antidepressant drug packaging, but a health advocate notes that few people pay attention to these warnings anyway. Currently,...

Doctors prescribing antidepressants, antipsychotic medications to infants under the age of one, says psychiatrist

12/13/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to Dr. Yolande Lucire, a forensic psychicatrist based in New South Wales, Australia, doctors are giving children younger than 1 year of age prescriptions for atypical antipsychotics -- a class of narcotics used to treat schizophrenia,...

Taking Paxil during pregnancy causes heart defects in fetuses, warn obstetricians

12/1/2006 - (NaturalNews) Pregnant women and those who might become pregnant should avoid taking the antidepressant Paxil because of a high risk of birth defects, according to a committee of obstetricians who published their opinion yesterday in the December issue...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors antidepressants and risk of violent behavior (press release)

11/1/2006 - Use of one class of antidepressant drugs, the SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), may be associated with severe violence in a small number of individuals say the authors of paper published in PLoS Medicine. David Healy and David Menkes...

Antidepressant drugs reduced sperm count of patients to near zero

10/24/2006 - (NaturalNews) Antidepressant drug use could severely lower men's sperm counts, according to a case report presented at yesterday's American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference in New Orleans. Dr. Peter Schlegel of the Cornell Medical Center...

Children and teens taking antidepressants might be more likely to attempt, complete suicide (press release)

10/5/2006 - Antidepressant medications may be associated with suicide attempts and death in severely depressed children and adolescents but not in adults, according to an article in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The...

Antidepressant Paxil found to double the risk of violent behavior

9/12/2006 - (NaturalNews) New British research has found that users of GlaxoSmithKline's antidepressant drug Paxil were twice as likely to experience violent behavior compared to patients taking placebo. Researchers from Cardiff University in Britain and the Cochrane...

Drug Approval Processes May Have Delayed Safety Warnings for Antidepressants (press release)

9/11/2006 - Drug approval processes may have delayed warnings about the safety of antidepressants, argues a senior doctor in this week’s BMJ. Newswise — Following GlaxoSmithKline’s recent letter to doctors pointing to a sixfold increase in the risk of suicidal...

Antidepressants Associated With Increased Risk of Diabetes in Pre-Diabetics (press release)

8/28/2006 - The use of antidepressant drugs was associated with a significantly increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes in people who were already at greater risk of the disease – and this effect was not seen in those taking the drug metformin, according to...

TeenScreen - Normal Kids Labeled Mentally Ill

8/23/2006 - Despite years of public outcry, based on recommendations by President Bush's New Freedom Commission to screen all school children for mental illness, TeenScreen is now being administered in the nation's public school system and children are being regularly...

Antidepressants May Worsen Sleep Disorder (press release)

8/18/2006 - A sleep disorder characterized by violent dreams, often acted out while sleeping, may be more common in people taking antidepressants, new research suggests. Although REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) typically occurs in patients in their 50s, doctors...

Findings on Antidepressants During Pregnancy Are Reason for Caution (press release)

8/11/2006 - Until recently, antidepressants—especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)—were considered fairly safe for pregnant women. But late last year, citing evidence from several sources, the FDA warned that infants of women who took the SSRI...

Antidepressants and Risk of Suicidal Thoughts, Behaviors in Children (press release)

8/9/2006 - An analysis of data from 24 clinical trials suggests that antidepressant medications may be linked to a modest increase in the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children, according to an article in the March issue of Archives of General Psychiatry,...

Antidepressants Can Increase Diabetes Risk in Certain Cases (press release)

8/4/2006 - If you are already at high risk for getting type 2 diabetes, antidepressant drugs can boost that risk, according to new research reported Saturday. The report was based on a re-analysis of part of the Diabetes Prevention Program, a large-scale study...

Prenatal antidepressant drug use linked to 600 percent increase in life-threatening lung disorder in newborns

7/20/2006 - (NaturalNews) A study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has found that women taking antidepressants during the second half of pregnancy run six times the risk of having a child born with a life-threatening lung disorder. The study, published...

Antidepressants linked with acting out of violent dreams during sleep

6/22/2006 - (NaturalNews) -- The results of a recent Mayo Clinic study indicate that antidepressant drugs may trigger an unusual sleep disorder called REM Behavior Disorder, or RBD, that causes sufferers to violently act out their dreams during REM sleep, often harming...

Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States? (PLoS Medicine)

6/12/2006 - Editor's note: This is a technical article reprinted, with permission, from the PLoS Medicine Journal (a peer-reviewed, open-access medical journal that's bucking the system by daring to print the truth about drugs, depression and pharmaceuticals). This...

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