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Must Read Articles from the Alliance for Human Research Protection Human rights and individual dignity are being threatened by those who profit from the medicalization of the human condition. A News report about an invasive drug releasing implant device for psychiatric patients has sparked fear and rage among recovered former psychiatric patients who are productive members of the community without drugs. The implant was developed by the University of Pennsylvania: Implant May Stabilize Schizophrenia Patients For Year By Ellen O'Brien There is a growing sense that psychiatry and its unholy alliance with the pharmaceutical industry (to borrow a phrase from Dr. Loren Mosher, a psychiatrist who serves on AHRP's board of directors) poses a threat to the public. It is a profession whose aggressive prescribing practices are out of control: healthy children are being exposed to chemical restraints by a profession in need of legal restraints: See: Industry Role in Medical Meeting Decried, By Shankar Vedantam. THE WASHINGTON POST.May 25, 2002. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11056-2002May25.html See also: Redflags Weekly and its documents about the David Healy Affair. (Dr. Healy is a British psychiatrist who ran afoul of those who profit from the antidepressant drug market by suppressing public disclosure of the risks associated with those drugs--for some patients the risk is drug-induced suicide. http://www.redflagsweekly.com/controversy/2002_may27.html Psychotropic drugs are being pushed by physicians--some would say as ruthlessly as they are pushed by drug dealers on the street. The remuneration for prescription drug pushers, however, is far greater than for their criminal colleagues. What, one wonders, would lead physicians to abandon their professional responsibility to "do no harm" by inventing conditions in order to increase drug sales? "Money and Madness" By Kelly Patricia O'Meara. Insight Magazine Cover Story Drug-Related Death of Fifteen Year Old Daughter
Vanessa By Terence H. Young.
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