TAG / ANTIDEPRESSANTS

The peer‑reviewed analysis reveals that psychotropics have failed to produce benefit for patients even as their use has surged and serious risks accumulate, prompting calls for regulatory overhaul.

A new large-scale study scrutinizing psychiatric prescribing finds clinicians continue to give high-risk drugs to Medicare dementia patients—most of the time with no documented justification at all.

Researchers tracked more than 1,000 Australian infants and found children whose mothers used antidepressants in the last three months of pregnancy had up to nine times higher odds of developing autism.

The suit claims a psychiatrist and nurses prescribed Lindsay Clancy a cocktail of antidepressants and sedatives, culminating in the deaths of her children and her leap from a second-story window.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights says FDA approval of antidepressants ignores decades of documented, permanent harms and calls for a full independent investigation into PSSD.

The proposal targets longstanding gaps in VA prescribing practices that leave veterans uninformed about addiction, suicide and other serious side effects.

The investigation shows how profit-driven psychiatry and compromised regulators created a crisis of violence masked as “treatment.”

With Wyoming among the nation’s highest in suicide rates, lawmakers opted out of mandating psychiatric drug screening—even as a public safety crisis looms.

Despite notoriously denying antidepressant harms—including devastating Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD)—Anita Clayton is now leading the society that shapes the psychiatric industry’s drug policies.

Illinois is the first state to mandate mental health screenings in schools. Opponents call it a reckless experiment that will harm and drug children, while Big Pharma profits.