David Healy (RxISK) takes a deep dive into the world of head zaps, brain freeze...

'Heading toward 4 decades since they began happening, we still have no explanations for what people on or withdrawing from an SRI call Brain Zaps, Electric Zaps, Electric Head, Electric Shock

Dizzy or clumsy on meds? We need your input on treatment induced PPPD ( Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness) Please fill in a RxISK Report to let us know about dizziness, imbalances, clumsiness and lack of co-ordination in as much detail as you can.rxisk.org/balancing-our-…

Deprescribing may be right for us or it may not. We need a relationship based medicine over an algorithm to help us off meds. For those unable to stop meds, medication reviews that halt drugs abruptly are putting us at greater risk. rxisk.org/potentially-in…

Roy Perlis Guessing Roy Perlis never saw this internal Pfizer document that was prepared for UK regulators looking at suicidality in all their original clinical trials… Pfizer own data showed suicide risk in the following:

50 mg Zoloft
1-30 days
31-40 years old

All three were my husband.

Have we lost our minds— antidepressants sold over the counter?? 😳💊💊

Not only do they have blackbox warnings for suicide, but also have been linked to violence and shootings. We worked tirelessly in mid 2000s to get these warnings added.

And what about long lasting PSSD

A crisis in the making: Since 2000 the word polypharmacy has entered our lexicon, and with it has come falling life expectancies, even among children and a huge increase in mental illness. davidhealy.org/zen-and-and-ar…

The RxISK Prize was created in 2017 as an incentive to search for a cure to #PSSD – Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction. Should we now transfer the prize moneys to a Research Fund to jump-start the actual research work? Join the discussion here:
rxisk.org/pssd-research/

Our PSSD Research Fund is currently supporting three projects. For more information, see rxisk.org/pssd-research/.

New York Attorney General Letitia James calls on the F.D.A. to alert doctors and patients about side effects of a 25-year-old asthma + allergy drug. It's been linked to anxiety, rage, suicide attempts and despair. The latest:

nytimes.com/2024/02/22/hea…

Dee RxISK Public Citizen's Health Research Group #Pharma paid $775 million to 'settle' lawsuits involving #Xarelto which by then had brought in $2.5Billion. And the profits haven't stopped coming in.
Pharma always does the math.
nytimes.com/2019/03/25/hea…

@PSSDSimon MHRAgovuk Patient Safety Commissioner Dr Joanna Moncrieff @samizdathealth Dr. Roger McFillin Dr Ahmad Malik Dr David Cox Owen Evans Dr Aseem Malhotra @wdpsychiatry RxISK Mad In The UK Why is the evidence contained in @samizdathealth ‘Citizen petition: Sexual side effects of SSRIs and SNRIs’ sufficient to convince the EMA to act in the interests of #patientsafety – but insufficient to motivate MHRAgovuk ?
researchgate.net/publication/34…

Why are so many Australians taking antidepressants?
Jon Jureidini
'Overprescribing is also symptomatic of medicalisation of distress. Most diagnoses of depression and anxiety are descriptions masquerading as explanations.' theconversation.com/why-are-so-man…

From Medical Aid in Conception to Medical Assistance in Dying: The role of Prescribed Harm, who profits, and who can stop it.
davidhealy.org/tail-wags-god-…

liz tucker Mark Horowitz Dr Joanna Moncrieff Dr John Read Georgia Ede MD RxISK Erick Turner @eturnermd1.bsky.social Dr. Nancy Olivieri @samizdathealth TranspariMED Peter Todd People are begging for resources to help get off these medications. I just got two emails from people asking for help. This is timely and will share.

It’s really sad that people and doctors were not told how to get off these meds. They were never designed to be taken for life.

It's 11 years today that Natalie was taken away.
Her dosage for Zoloft was increased over the phone by an over-zealous prescriber. Two days after taking the maximum Zoloft dose as prescribed, Natalie was dead.
She died of a violent self-sustained injury.

Liberty, Equality, Fertility: A deep dive into Europe's fertility crisis, from immigration debates to 'medical assistance in dying'
davidhealy.org/liberty-equali…

France, Fertility, Sex and Serotonin: A 90-year timeline from @samizdathealth on what we've learned about Rx meds and fertility, and when we learned it.

rxisk.org/sex-fertility-…

Do you suffer from #PSSD (persistent sexual dysfunction after stopping SSRI anti-depressants)?

RxISK is seeking volunteers based in UK for a research study involving non-invasive diagnostic test:

rxisk.org/pssd-sufferers…

Pharmageddon and our Healthcare Climate: The impact of a polypharmacy pandemic on life expectancies, birth rates and much else
davidhealy.org/pharmageddon-a…

What’s behind falling fertility rates in Earth’s wealthiest nations? @samizdathealth on the unexamined role of prescription drugs:

rxisk.org/the-cradle-of-…