
Dr. David Healy
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A professor of Psychiatry in Wales, David studied medicine in Dublin, and at Cambridge University. On his blog he writes about clinical trials in psychopharmacology, the history of psychopharmacology, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture.
Dr. David Healy
1w ago
Among the greatest triumphs linked to RxISK was Anne-Marie Kelly’s discovery that SSRI antidepressants can cause alcohol misuse. A Hero Anne-Marie’s story was first told in Out of My Mind Driven to Drink, which featured here in March 2012. This led to a post on RxISK Driven to Drink. Between them the posts have over […]
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Dr. David Healy
2w ago
This post is written by Dr Pedro who is watching events unfold from 10,000 miles away – with some extras added at the end. The UK Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has been asked by Katy Skerrett, Senior Coroner for Gloucestershire, to respond to her Regulation 28 report to Prevent Future Deaths, after the […]
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Dr. David Healy
1M ago
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang. Shakespeare Sonnet 73 These lines came to mind recently when walking by a school playground crowded with young children on […]
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Dr. David Healy
1M ago
A Darkness the Light cannot Master A priming note for Secular and all non-Xtian readers – what Xtians call the New Testament has 4 Gospels. Three open with variations on what most folk from Hollywood to the Vatican would view as the conventional Xmas Nativity story – cold time of year, manger, donkeys, star. The […]
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Dr. David Healy
1M ago
Never before in human history have so many had to entrust their lives and wellbeing to so few and been so betrayed. Inspired by Winston Churchill The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it Inspired by Winston Smith Probity Blockers, a term originally coined by Dee […]
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Dr. David Healy
2M ago
Thanks for this post goes to Annie Bevan who for over a decade has made some amazing contributions to DH and RxISK. None more so than finding a document sitting in front of all of us for two decades that should make regulators blush, squirm and wish the ground would open and swallow them. Thomas […]
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Dr. David Healy
2M ago
This recent Mad in America Webinar on Stopping Antidepressants introduced the idea of SSRI Dysregulation. Terms like Dependence etc band people with problems on SSRIs in with ‘substance abusers’. Substance Abusers do not get a good deal from services that do not recognize the mainstream services and the drugs they hand out have often caused […]
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Dr. David Healy
2M ago
After 6 deaths, 6 years ago, on November 17, two days ago, the New Zealand Herald featured an article reporting on an inquest into these deaths. The original with photos of the 6 children is linked. The text is below the link. The action in this post happens right at the bottom of the NZH […]
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Dr. David Healy
3M ago
Prozac (fluoxetine) went off patent in August 2021. In July 2000, FDA approved Sarafem (fluoxetine) for use in Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD). In June 2010, Lilly stopped marketing Sarafem. In August 2023, Lilly informed FDA they wished to Withdraw Sarafem and its PMDD indication. It is not exactly clear what withdrawing its PMDD indication means. Presumably […]
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Dr. David Healy
3M ago
In 1963, Hoffman la Roche launched Valium, the brand name for diazepam, a benzodiazepine. It followed hot on the heels of Librium – chlordiazepoxide – another benzodiazepine. This was like one company producing 2 SSRIs and able to get them to numbers 1 and 2 in the charts. Arthur Sackler of Purdue and Oxycontin fame […]
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