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Topics of the day:
1. Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher
2. Depressed patients on Paxil became more extraverted and less neurotic
3. DSM V release postponed amid controversy
4. Antiepileptic Drugs Not Associated With Increased Risk of Suicide Attempts
in Patients With Bipolar Disorder
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:57:09 -0800
From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]>
Subject: Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher
<http://gwenolsen.com/>http<http://gwenolsen.com/>://gwenolsen.com/
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:45:37 -0800
From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]>
Subject: Depressed patients on Paxil became more extraverted and less neurotic
<http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/12/07/antidepressants-may-change-your--personality.html>http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/12/07/antidepressants-may-change-your--personality.html
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:54:16 -0800
From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]>
Subject: DSM V release postponed amid controversy
"As Frances put it in Psychiatric News,
"Undoubtedly, the most reckless suggestion for=20
DSM-V is that it include many new categories to=20
capture the milder subthreshold versions of the=20
existing more severe official disorders. The . .=20
. DSM-V Task Force has failed to adequately=20
consider the potentially disastrous unintended=20
consequence that DSM-V may flood the world with=20
new false positives. . . . The result would be a=20
wholesale imperial medicalization of normality=20
that will trivialize mental disorder and lead to=20
a deluge of unneeded medicationtreatments=ADa=20
bonanza for the pharmaceutical industry but at a=20
huge cost to the new false positive 'patients'=20
caught in the excessively wide DSM-Vnet.""
<http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/200912/american-psychiatry=
-is-facing-civil-war-over-its-diagnostic-manual>http://www.psychologytoday.c=
om/blog/side-effects/200912/american-psychiatry-is-facing-civil-war-over-its=
-diagnostic-manual=20
"... patients will be the biggest losers. "
<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427382.400-times-up-for-psychiatrys=
-bible.html>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427382.400-times-up-for-=
psychiatrys-bible.html=20
56 per cent of DSM-V panel members have industry links
<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427381.300-psychiatrys-civil-war.ht=
ml?full=3Dtrue>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427381.300-psychiatry=
s-civil-war.html?full=3Dtrue=20
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:14:16 -0800
From: Sylvia Caras <[email protected]>
Subject: Antiepileptic Drugs Not Associated With Increased Risk of Suicide
Attempts in Patients With Bipolar Disorder
Antiepileptic Drugs Not Associated With Increased Risk of Suicide
Attempts in Patients With Bipolar Disorder
From PharmaLive News Archive - Dec 08, 2009
CHICAGO, Dec. 7, 2009--Despite government warnings about an increased
risk of suicidal thoughts and actions while taking antiepileptic
drugs, these medications do not appear to be associated with
increased risk of suicide attempts in individuals with bipolar
disorder, and may have a possible protective effect, according to a
report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one
of the JAMA/Archives journals
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