Thank goodness someone is speaking out in support of Dr Lucire. She is a real altruistic warrior. The attempts by 'authorities' to silence her thus far have been entirely abhorrent.

One might be forgiven for mistaking a couple of comments here as coming straight from BigPharma HQ. To me, such points of view indicate just how much society has been sucked in by the spin of this industry; an industry given far too much control over the dissemination of information about mental illness and its treatments.

Further evidence of BigPharma's influence is in the frequent suggestions that someone must be Scientology-associated for speaking out about bad practice and standing up for what is right.

Only when you have suffered the hellish manifestations of the 'imaginary science' referred to by the author can you truly comprehend its diabolical consequences. I for one will be always indebted to those gutsy professionals bucking trends and blowing whistles. It may not be immediately apparent, but you are saving lives.

These publications provide evidence that psychiatric drugs have a nasty side effect, suicide. They cause akathisia, restlessness, violence, homicide, toxic psychosis, weird behaviours, memory problems. Many drugs cause akathisia in some patients: some akathisiacs kill themselves or others: suicide and violence occur in medicated stress, not only mental illness. Akathisia is explained by pharmacogenetic tests.
1. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 38 11-12 933 2004 Burgess et al.
Do nations' mental health policies, programs and legislation influence their suicide rates? An ecological study of 100 countries.
Objective: To test the hypothesis that the presence of national mental health policies, programs and legislation would be associated with lower national suicide rates.
Method: Suicide rates from 100 countries were regressed on mental health policy, program and legislation indicators.
Results: Contrary to the hypothesized relationship, the study found that after introducing mental health initiatives (with the exception of substance abuse policies), countries' suicide rates rose.
Conclusion: It is of concern that most mental health initiatives are associated with an increase in suicide rates.
2. British Journal of Psychiatry ( 2006 )188 , 223 - 228
Lifetime suicide rates in treated schizophrenia: - 1875-1924 and 1994-1998 cohorts compared. Healy et al.
Background Recent interest in suicide rates in schizophrenia has been considerable.
Aims To establish the lifetime suicide rate from the pre-chlorpromazine era and to compare this with recent lifetime suicide rates for schizophrenia.
Method We have compared suicide and suicide attempt rates for 741 admissions for schizophrenia and 1303 admissions for psychoses to the North Wales Asylum between 1875 and 1924, with first admissions for psychosis in North West Wales between 1994 and 1998.
Results the suicide rate in schizophrenia between 1875 and 1924 was 20 per 100,000 hospital years, a lifetime rate of less than 0.5%. The suicide rate for all psychoses was 16 per 100,000 hospital years.
Current rates of suicide for schizophrenia and other psychoses appear 20-fold higher.
Conclusions: these findings point to an increase in suicide rates for patients with schizophrenia.
To understand how: watch this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X53r3zTQJNk

and Google up akthsisia suicide, homicide and pharmacogenetics

@ Yola

'To understand how: watch this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X53r3zTQJNk '

Thank you. Excellent video. Dr Healy clearly explains in a scientific way that is also easy to follow and understand.

There is interest in what is called the Americanization of Mental Health.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.html

If you looked at particularly magazines aimed at women, there are heaps of pop psychological articles. Take this test "see if your relationship will survive" or "how to be happy" or "how to have a happy relationship"

There is a subtle form of brain washing that perhaps even the authors are not aware of.

Welcome to Democracy - "Democracy can be seen as two wolves sitting at dinner table with a lamb/Sheep arguing about what is for dinner".

In this case, the sheep are people and the wolves represent the hegemonic view where all people are diseased and sick. No one can be normal anymore, there is a disease name for all human interactions. Lets not forget what 'may' be the pre-designed pill to cure these interactions.

What is sad is how can society move forward when the system is backwards. 'Its like wiping your bottom before you poo'.

Bring in Whistleblower protections so people like Yola can be sparred for acting honestly and in the best interests of people and not Profits. (Doesn't really say much about those "Other" so-called professionals that suport this greedy/parasitic system).

After what Julian Assange has released about our media machine not willing to tell the whole story, or representing the powerful. If you do not tow the line you will be lablled and defamed with impunity.

I cannot understand how helping people has become wrong. We are living in a screwed up (backward, self-interested, conflicting) system that promotes sickness in the name of health.

Why, Why, Why!!

Hang in there Gal.

Abstract
Context: Violence towards others is a seldom-studied adverse drug event and an atypical one because the risk of injury
extends to others.
Objective: To identify the primary suspects in adverse drug event reports describing thoughts or acts of violence towards
others, and assess the strength of the association.
Methodology: From the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) data, we extracted all
serious adverse event reports for drugs with 200 or more cases received from 2004 through September 2009. We identified
any case report indicating homicide, homicidal ideation, physical assault, physical abuse or violence related symptoms.
Main Outcome Measures: Disproportionality in reporting was defined as a) 5 or more violence case reports, b) at least twice
the number of reports expected given the volume of overall reports for that drug, c) a x2 statistic indicating the violence
cases were unlikely to have occurred by chance (p,0.01).
Results: We identified 1527 cases of violence disproportionally reported for 31 drugs. Primary suspect drugs included
varenicline (an aid to smoking cessation), 11 antidepressants, 6 sedative/hypnotics and 3 drugs for attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder. The evidence of an association was weaker and mixed for antipsychotic drugs and absent for all but 1
anticonvulsant/mood stabilizer. Two or fewer violence cases were reported for 435/484 (84.7%) of all evaluable drugs
suggesting that an association with this adverse event is unlikely for these drugs.
Conclusions: Acts of violence towards others are a genuine and serious adverse drug event associated with a relatively
small group of drugs. Varenicline, which increases the availability of dopamine, and antidepressants with serotonergic
effects were the most strongly and consistently implicated drugs. Prospective studies to evaluate systematically this side
effect are needed to establish the incidence, confirm differences among drugs and identify additional common features.
Citation: Moore TJ, Glenmullen J, Furberg CD (2010) Prescription Drugs Associated with Reports of Violence Towards Others. PLoS ONE 5(12): e15337.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015337