Children of the Cure tells the story of the only Medical Study that has two publications in the academic literature—telling precisely the opposite story—and how no one is bothered by this. Study 329 was a clinical study that began in 1994 giving a new antidepressant to teenagers. It has become the most famous clinical trial ever, leading to a fraud charge, a $3 billion fine, and a Black Box Warning. Despite now knowing that all trials of antidepressants done in children are negative, sales of these drugs to children and adolescents continue to increase dramatically. This book is written by three members of the team—David Healy, Joanna Le Noury and Julie Wood—who have been behind writing the study and creating the website that hosts a set of documents pharmaceutical companies never expected you would get to see.

Children of the Cure: Missing Data, Lost Lives and Antidepressants

Medical Books

Healy, David

Le Noury, Joanna

Wood, Julie

Administration & Medicine Economics

Samizdat Health Writer’s Co-operative Inc.

Malcharist

Literature & Fiction

Scott, Paul John

Genre Fiction

Paul John Scott

One could scarcely have been alive and conscious anywhere in the Western world any time in the past twenty-five years and not have been aware of a raging controversy surrounding antidepressants, suicide, and violence—a controversy that shows no sign of abating. During that same period, prescriptions for antidepressants have skyrocketed. So what is the story? Do these drugs drive people to suicide, or do they not? What about homicide? Are they addictive? Do they even help with depression? Author and researcher Patrick D. Hahn has examined the scientific literature and the trial transcripts. He’s listened to doctors and the patients. He’s cross-checked the facts. And now, he has reconstructed the story to tell the truth about how these drugs are made and sold. 
“A compelling account of some of the most tragic mental health events. Hahn’s touch is sure and the narrative races along. You may find yourself devouring it in one sitting—and then going back for more.” ~ David Healy, McMaster University, author of Pharmageddon 
“A beautifully written page-turner. It should be read by every doctor who prescribes these drugs and by anyone who is considering taking one.” ~ Irving Kirsch, Harvard Medical School, author of The Emperor’s New Drugs

Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide and Violence

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hahn, Dr. Patrick D.

Mental Health

Shipwreck of the Singular: Healthcare’s Castaways

Life Expectancy in the West has been falling since 2015. Linked to this, the climate of healthcare has become toxic. This crisis, as urgent as global climate change, has its roots in the same factors that drive climate change.\nShipwreck of the Singular looks at our changing environment through a healthcare lens rather than an economic one. One advantage to this is that each of us is better placed to put right what is going wrong in the climate of healthcare than we are to tackle the global climate. In tackling what needs changing in health, we may solve our wider climate crisis.\nThis book does not come with recommendations from people of distinction, or experts who have turned a blind eye to developments that have landed us in the mess we now have. The people best placed to grasp what is going wrong and force our 'betters' to justify the distinctions that have been bestowed on them are those whose lives have been touched by what is going wrong in healthcare.\n﻿Shipwreck shows you how we got to the point of peril we are now at. It points to a Care that needs courage. A book won't get us there. It needs you to engage and engage others.

Shipwreck of the Singular: Healthcare's Castaways

The Zyprexa Papers

Gottstein, Jim

Psychology & Counseling

On December 17, 2006, The New York Times began a series of front-page stories about documents obtained from Alaska lawyer Jim Gottstein, showing Eli Lilly had concealed that its top-selling drug caused diabetes and other life-shortening metabolic problems. The "Zyprexa Papers," as they came to be known, also showed Eli Lilly was illegally promoting the use of Zyprexa on children and the elderly, with particularly lethal effects. Although Mr. Gottstein believes he obtained the Zyprexa Papers legally, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn decided he had conspired to steal the documents, and Eli Lilly threatened Mr. Gottstein with criminal contempt charges. 
In The Zyprexa Papers, Mr. Gottstein gives a riveting first-hand account of what really happened, including new details about how a small group of psychiatric survivors spread the Zyprexa Papers on the Internet untraceably. All of this within a gripping, plain-language explanation of complex legal maneuvering and his battles on behalf of Bill Bigley, the psychiatric patient whose ordeal made possible the exposure of the Zyprexa Papers.

Jim, Gottstein

Every day across this great land of ours, children are swallowing pills for something called “Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.” This is still largely an American obsession, by the way—the United States spends several times as much on ADHD meds than all the rest of the world put together—although the rest of the world is catching up with us. The idea that millions of children—mostly boys—are walking around with defective brains that require them to ingest powerful psychotropic drugs every day of their lives in order to be able to cope with the quotidian tasks of childhood has become received wisdom. 
Once upon a time, the mass drugging of children was the subject of spirited debate, but that controversy seems for the most part to have died down. The goal of this book is to re-ignite that controversy. 
“This is an outstanding and painstakingly researched treatise on ADHD that clearly exposes the hazards waiting to destroy your child. It should be in every pediatrician’s office and in every graduate student’s library.” 
Michelle Barrett, M. Ed., Founder, Del Dios Counseling Services 
“The shocking story of psychiatry’s abandonment of scientific evidence... A must-read for anyone currently living with a diagnosis of ADHD.” 
Bruce Cohen, University of Auckland, author of Psychiatric Hegemony

Obedience Pills: ADHD and the Medicalization of Childhood

Hahn, Patrick D.

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