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Les Ruthven addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality and other dangers of psychiatric drugs.

Rising prescription drug prices and fast approvals can harm patients, as highlighted by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in December 2021.

Dawn Heidlebaugh felt trapped in a disturbing pattern while taking Ozempic, the popular drug used to treat diabetes and obesity. Each Sunday for more than a year, the 53-year-old Ohio real estate agent took her weekly injection to help control her blood sugar. Then every Tuesday, she felt lethargic, depressed and sometimes suicidal, thinking her husband and four children might...

Weight loss drugs are not magic pills. Like so many other drugs, they too have side effects.

“I knew it was the drug,” said Heidlebaugh, who said she had not previously suffered from depression. Heidlebaugh is one of four U.S. patients who told Reuters about experiencing suicidal thoughts while taking Novo Nordisk’s popular Ozempic drug, approved to treat type 2 diabetes, or Wegovy, another Novo top-seller approved for weight loss. A fifth patient said he experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after taking Mounjaro, a similar diabetes medicine from Eli Lilly...

Reuters found 265 cases of suicidal thoughts or behaviour related to these drugs in the US FDAs database since 2010, with 36 involving suicide

News items found for this week in history in the Creston News Advertiser.

Requested Repost 2Nov2011 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The poor safety profile of the smoking-cessation drug varenicline (Chantix™) makes it unsuitable for first-line use, according to a study published in the Nov. 2 edition of the journal PLoS One, an online publication of the Public Library of Science. Varenicline, which already carries a "black box warning" from…

For nearly three years, residents have been battling the area’s private utility provider for a basic service

About half of adults who were prescribed schedule II-controlled stimulants were concurrently exposed to other central nervous system-active drugs, many of which have withdrawal effects, complicating discontinuation, researchers reported. We were concerned to discover that nearly half the prescriptions for amphetamine stimulants were used in combination with antidepressants, antianxiety drugs and