I’ve recently come across an article by Ronald Pies MD on PsychCentral. It’s titled: Are the Puritans Behind the War on Antidepressants? Here’s the opening paragraph: “These are not good times for Prozac and its progeny. In the popular media, the use of antidepressants has been likened to swallowing ‘expensive Tic-Tacs’, while in professional journals,… Continue Reading
Suicide and Antidepressants: Psychiatry’s Watergate
Carl Elliot has an interesting post up about the possible link between the military’s increased use of psychotropic drugs and the concomitant increase in soldiers’ suicide rates. It’s titled Note to New York Times reporters: Read the New York Times. Here’s a quote: “Like many reporters before them, James Dao and Andrew Lehren, [NY… Continue Reading
SSRI’s During Pregnancy and APGAR Scores
There’s an interesting article on this topic by Hans Jensen et al, in the February 21, 2013 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. You can see an abstract here. The authors conducted a register study on all pregnant women in Denmark from 1996 to 2006, linking data from the Medical Birth Register, the Psychiatric… Continue Reading
More Antidepressant Risks
There’s an article in Science Daily (April 29, 2013) titled “Antidepressants Linked with Increased Risks After Surgery,” which I found courtesy of Monica on Twitter. You can see it here. The article is a report of a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. You can see an abstract of the study here. The study was… Continue Reading