Get yourself an appointment with a
psychiatrist, get yourself declared
schizoprenic and take the drugs
they give you. You'll soon find out
what happens after that. As your
brain is attacked by neurotoxins.
And once and for all you can be sure
that 'biological psychiatry' is
dangerous, and detrimental to your
mental and physical well-being; you
can also ascertain that the Church of
Scientology is right about one thing.

Everyone can listen in on this meeting. The review group's meeting
will be 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. June 25 via teleconference. Those
interested can call 888-808-6959 and enter conference code 8509227702.

Letters to the editor: letters@news-jrnl.com

Daytona Beach News Journal
Panel to review Medicaid guidelines for antipsychotic drugs
By M.C. MOEWE
Staff Writer

A panel named this month to discuss changing state guidelines on
paying for antipsychotic drugs for children will meet for the first
time June 25.

At stake is the future treatment of more than 18,000 children in
Florida currently receiving atypical antipsychotics medication for
conditions ranging from ADHD to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

The number of children in the Florida Medicaid program prescribed the
powerful drugs has nearly doubled from 9,364 kids in 2000 to 18,137 in
2006, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported in January.

The Guardian

Antipsychotics given for dementia pose risks-study

By Andrew Stern

May 26, 2008

Elderly dementia patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs are at three
times the risk of a serious health problem or dying within a month of
treatment, compared to those not given the drugs, Canadian researchers
said on Monday.

The medications have been used by doctors to treat aggression in
people who are not psychotic or schizophrenic, but there are risks for
elderly dementia patients prescribed the drugs, according to Dr. Paula
Rochon of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto,
and colleagues.

"Of residents newly admitted to a nursing home, 17 percent are started
on antipsychotic drugs within 100 days of their admission," often for
short periods to control delirium, delusions or aggressive behavior,
Rochon wrote.

Charleston Gazette
Vets taking PTSD drugs die in sleep
Hurricane man's death the 4th in West Virginia
By Julie Robinson
May 24, 2008

A Putnam County veteran who was taking medication prescribed for
post-traumatic stress disorder died in his sleep earlier this month,
in circumstances similar to the deaths of three other area veterans
earlier this year.

Derek Johnson, 22, of Hurricane, served in the infantry in the Middle
East in 2005, where he was wounded in combat and diagnosed with
post-traumatic stress disorder while hospitalized.

Military doctors prescribed Paxil, Klonopin and Seroquel for Johnson,
the same combination taken by veterans Andrew White, 23, of Cross
Lanes; Eric Layne, 29, of Kanawha City; and Nicholas Endicott of Logan
County. All were in apparently good physical health when they died in
their sleep.

Huffington Post

Psychiatry Makes War on "Bipolar Children"
Dr. Peter Breggin
May 23, 2008

The front cover of the May 26, 2008 Newsweek has a banner headline,
"Growing Up Bipolar" with a split-face photograph of a ten-year-old
boy. The headline should have read, "Victim of Psychiatric Assault."
In daycare 18-month old Max kicked, bit and spat on his larger peers.
Apparently before he was two years old, his overwhelmed parents took
him to a famous Boston psychiatrist -- having been trained in
psychiatry at Harvard, I can confirm that famous Boston psychiatrists
are among the most arrogantly pro-drug -- and within an hour the
toddler had been diagnosed as bipolar. Right away he was put on the
adult "mood stabilizer," Depakote. Depakote is an anti-seizure drug
that is so sedating that it can, however briefly, subdue a child, at
least until the effect wears off.

Setting The Record Straight on the "Mothers Act"

by Amy Philo

May 21, 2008

"You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do"

You can find copies of the lawsuits States have filed here:
www.psychsearch.net/lawsuits.html along with newspaper articles about
the lawsuit.

10 States have sued Eli Lilly regarding Zyprexa: Alaska, Connecticut,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, Utah and West Virginia.
5 states have sued Janssen regarding Risperdal: Arkansas, Louisiana,
Pennsylvana, South Carolina and Texas
3 state has sued AstraZeneca regarding Seroquel: Arkansas,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina

Arkansas Residents Only - Letters to the editor here:
http://www2.arkansasonline.com/contact/voicesform/

ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
State suit targets AstraZeneca over antipsychotic medicine
May 21, 2008
BY CAROLYNE PARK

Sunday - When her schizophrenic son dies, a mother files a lawsuit
claiming he was coerced into a drug study. Link:
http://tinyurl.com/6o996z
Monday - Who is responsible for protecting the people enrolled in
drug studies at the University of Minnesota? Link:
http://tinyurl.com/657xj3
Tuesday - An analysis of state data looks at whether psychiatrists
still receive the most money for drug studies. Link:
http://tinyurl.com/4v3945

Comments here: http://tinyurl.com/4v3945
Letters to the Editor here: letters@pioneerpress.com

St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota)
What they spend: A look at drug company spending in Minnesota — on top
specialties and select psychiatrists. Critics say drug firms' payments
to doctors are conflict of interest
By Jeremy Olson and Paul Tosto
05/19/2008

Below is part 2 of a 3 part series:

Sunday - When her schizophrenic son dies, a mother files a lawsuit
claiming he was coerced into a drug study. Link:
http://tinyurl.com/6o996z
Monday - Who is responsible for protecting the people enrolled in
drug studies at the University of Minnesota? Link:
http://tinyurl.com/657xj3
Tuesday - An analysis of state data looks at whether psychiatrists
still receive the most money for drug studies.

Comments here: http://www.twincities.com/ci_9306735?nclick_check=1
Letters to the Editor here: letters@pioneerpress.com

St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota)
The safety net that didn't save him
Patient's suicide raises questions about psychiatrist's ethics
By Paul Tosto and Jeremy Olson
May 19, 2008

Markingson center and Tamar Bekmedzjian, right, when Dan's mother Mary
Weiss, left, visited him in Los Angeles in August 2001. (Photo
courtesy of Mary Weiss)

St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota)
The death of Subject 13
By Jeremy Olson and Paul Tosto Pioneer Press
May 18, 2008

Subject 13 was dead.
Enrolled in a clinical trial testing the effects of anti-psychotic
drugs at the University of Minnesota, the schizophrenic had killed
himself May 8, 2004, in a grisly suicide.

Tragic, a U official wrote in a "serious adverse event" memo to the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but suicide was "unfortunately not
uncommon in this study population."

Unfortunate, but not unpredicted. Subject 13 had a mother who thought
that her son, Dan Markingson, wasn't getting better during his six
months in the study. Mary Weiss sent five letters and made numerous
calls to the researchers, complaining that her son, the 13th enrollee,
didn't have the wherewithal to consent to the study and requesting
that he be withdrawn.