FORUM CONTENTS

Medical Model   •   Medication as Treatments  •   Pharmaceutical Companies  

 Survivor...Personal Experience   •  Individual Freedoms  •  Education

• Even in the Age of Prozac, Some Still Prefer the Couch
  Erica Goode, New York Times

• New Hope for Battling Depression:  Study Illuminates Why Benefits of Therapy are More Lasting Than Medication
  Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal

Medical Model

• Eleven Unethical Managed Care Practices Every Patient Should Know About
  Ivan Miller, Ph.D., National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers

• Commentary: Against Biologic Psychiatry
  David Kaiser, M.D., Psychiatric Times

• Cold water thrown on Prozac nation
  Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun

• Money and Madness
  Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Insight Magazine

• The Going Rate on Shrinks.  Big Pharma and the Buying of Psychiatry
  E. Fuller Torrey, The American Prospect

• DEBUNKING THE SCIENCE BEHIND ADHD AS A "BRAIN DISORDER"
  Dr. David Walker & Dr. Albert Galves

• Medicating Young Minds
  Jeffrey Kluger, Time Magazine

• The Hidden Side of Psychiatry
  Gary Null

• Hunger Strikers Demand Human Rights in Mental Health

     - Fast for Freedom

     - American Psychiatric Association Statement on Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders

     - Reply to APA, 
        from Duncan B. Double,  Consultant Psychiatrist  

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Medication as Treatment

• Long-Term Treatment with Antidepressant Drugs:  
  The Spectacular Achievements of Propoganda
  Giovanni A. Fava, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

• How to Stop Depression Medications: Very Slowly
  Mary Duenwald, New York Times

• Antidepressants are health hazards:  Suicide more likely
  Tammy Marlowe, Winnipeg Sun

• Anti-depressant Taken Off Market:  controversial Serzone linked to liver failure
  CBS News

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Medication as Treatment---Children

• Instead of a War against Drugs, Children Riddled with Psych Drugs
  Alliance for Human Research Protection

• Schools in row over Ritalin
  BBC News

• Fighting for Attention; Britain's first clinic for children hooked on psychiatric drugs has tapped into a huge demand
  First Person by Janice Hill, New Scientist

• Drugs for Depressed Children Banned
  Sarah Boseley, Health Editor, Guardian Unlimited

• Kids, Meds, and Suicide
  Rob Waters

• Antidepressant Makers Withhold Data on Children 
  Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post

• Drug report barred by FDA-Scientist links antidepressants to suicide in kids
  Rob Waters, San Francisco Chronicle

• Antidepressant Use in Children has Its Limits
  Shankar Vedantam, The Washington Post

• Antidepressants Called Unsafe For Children; 4 Medications Singled Out in Analysis of Many Studies
  Shankar Vedantam, The Washington Post

• Drug firms 'hid risks to children'
  David Derbyshire,  The Telegraph

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Pharmaceutical Companies

• First You Market the Disease... then you push the pills to treat it
  Brendan Koerner, The Guardian

• Let Them Eat Prozac - An Interview With David Healy
  Rick Giombetti

• Revealed:  How drug firms "hoodwink" medical journals
  Antony Barnett, Public Affairs Editor, The Observer

• Drug Companies Get Too Close for Med School's Comfort
  Dan Shapiro, New York Times

• Drug Companies Increase Spending to Lobby Congress and Governments
  Robert Pear, New York Times

• Making Drugs, Shaping the Rules
  Melody Peterson, New York Times

• Subverting US Health
  LA Times

  A Federal Researcher Who Defended a Client's Lethal Drug
  David Willman, LA Times

  Stealth Merger:  Drug Companies and Government Medical Research
  David Willman, LA Times

• Dangerous Medicine
  Daniel W. Sigelman, The American Prospect

• Psychiatry and the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Complex, FDA, Drug Industry, NIMH, NAMI

• Italy Police Probe 4,400 doctors
  BBC News

• Baum Hedlund Firm Expresses Grave Concerns Over Anticipated FDA Whitewash

• Tricks of the Trade:  Extravagant freebies, insider 'experts' and biased research... Should we be concerned about the way the pharmaceutical industry woos our GPs?
  Jane Feinmann, The Guardian

• Despite Missteps, Eli Lilly is a Hard Stock to Bet Against
  Gardiner Harris, New York Times

• Doctors Without Borders:  Why you can't trust medical journals anymore
  Washington Monthly

• Drug Risks Hidden from Public:  Drug companies keep test failures quiet, medical journal says
  Sharon Kirkey, Edmonton Journal

• Negative drug research 'withheld'
  BBC UK

• The Riddle of the Drug Regulators
  Sarah Boseley, The Guardian

• Regulation of drugs "A secretive system"
  The Guardian

• New York Sues Maker of Antidepressant Drug Paxil
  Associated Press, Press Release - Office of New York Attorney General

• Glaxo faces drug fraud lawsuit; Firm accused of keeping back negative trial results
  David Teather & Sarah Boseley, The Guardian

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Survivor...Personal Experience

• I Need a Pill RIGHT NOW - Do users know the risks of popular antidepressants?
  Patricia Pearson, National Post

• Mad, Bad, and Dangerous
  Tim Luckhurst, Times Online

Individual Freedoms

• Medical Privacy Rules:  An Intolerable Breach
  Philadelphia Inquirer

• Trial will test privacy rules for health files
  Theo Francis, Wall Street Journal

• HIPAA Runs into Legal Trouble, Lawsuit Challenges Patient Privacy Regulations
  JA Slobodzian, Philadelphia Inquirer

• Lawsuit Status - Government admits HIPAA strips medical privacy
  Jim Pyles, American Mental Health Alliance

• "Losing Liberty" an ongoing series of commentaries published in the Detroit News that focuses on the damage being done to the Bill of Rights, including the loss of privacy and other civil liberties.

  Americans must hold tight to freedom - 6/24/03 

  Privacy becomes a casualty - 6/24/03 

  Put controls on emerging 'surveillance state' - 6/24/03 

  Stop Technology from Destroying Privacy - 6/24/03 

  Citizens need to protect the Bill of Rights - 6/24/03 
  
  Forfeiting Privacy Will Destroy the Essence of America - 6/24/03 

  Letting guard down would allow Bush to take away rights and liberties for good - 9/14/03 

  Patriot Act Heightens Assault on Civil Liberties - 9/15/03 

  Congress and the Courts Must Protect Civil Liberties - 9/17/03

• Letter to the Editor
  Some Consequences for Youth Violence of Society's Abrogation of Confidentiality and Proliferation of "Duties to Report"  Etta Gluckstein Saxe, Ph.D.
  

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Education

• Letter to the Editor Thoughts on the Psychoanalytic Consortium: Are We the Ghost of Christmas Past? Etta Gluckstein Saxe, Ph.D.