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ADHD Diagnosis Does Not Lead to Improved Quality of Life, But Doubles Teens’ Risk of Self-Harm, Researchers Say
The research is the latest to suggest the harms of diagnosis and drug treatment for ADHD outweigh benefits that are...
American Psychiatric Association Belatedly Removes Award Honoring the Slave-Owning Father of American Psychiatry
The award honored Benjamin Rush, whose theories are at the root of the structural racism in psychiatry that the...
Mental Health Activists Protest Psychiatric Organization’s Systemic Racism and Failure to Follow the Science
Psychiatrists are faulted for knowing the theory of a chemical imbalance of the brain was unproven, but failed to...
New Report on Psychiatric Institutionalization of Political Dissidents in China Raises Human Rights Concerns
World Health Organization (WHO) issued guidelines and call to UN countries to ensure mental health services are free...
Long-Term Antidepressant Use May Double the Risk of Heart Disease, Researchers Say
New study adds to the harms associated with antidepressants; other research debunks the chemical-imbalance rationale...
No Convincing Evidence of Long-Term Benefit to Children from ADHD Treatment, Researchers Say
New research is the latest to find that ADHD drugs likely expose children to more harm than benefit. A new study that...
National Suicide Prevention Month: Researchers Continue to Find that Suicide is a Real Risk of Antidepressants
Consumers need to know about the increased risk of suicide from antidepressants so they can make fully informed...
Researchers Say Psychiatrists Should Shape Patients’ Morality, But Psychiatrists’ Own Medical Ethics Are Questioned
Exposure of psychiatrists’ widespread promotion of misleading chemical imbalance theory, which lacks scientific...
Suicide Prevention Week: Antidepressants Increase the Risk of Suicidal Thoughts and Actions, Researchers and FDA Say
Recent research finds no scientific basis for the chemical imbalance theory of depression and calls into question the...
Warning: Summer Heat Waves Pose a Danger to People Taking Psychiatric Drugs
While most psychiatric drugs increase the risk of heat-related illness, authorities warn that individuals taking...
Patients Taking Antidepressants Are Only Slightly More Likely to Improve Than Those Taking Placebos, Study Finds
Patients should discuss with their physicians the reportedly small potential for benefit versus the risk of harm...
Justice for Millions of Americans Prescribed Antidepressants for a Chemical Imbalance of the Brain that Doesn’t Exist?
A new report details the history of the fraudulent promotion of the unproven theory and the possible grounds for a...
Watchdog Group Urges Mental Health Websites to Remove References to Discredited Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression
Research over 50 years has failed to find proof that any brain chemical imbalance causes depression. The latest study...
Comprehensive New Study Finds No Scientific Evidence of a Chemical Imbalance in the Brain Causing Depression
The research undermines the basis for prescribing SSRI antidepressants. Other research faults the psychiatric...
10th Anniversary of Aurora Theater Shooting: After Taking Psychotropics, Shooter Felt “No More Fear, Hatred Unchecked”
CCHR calls for disclosure of mass killers’ history of psychiatric drugs, many of which are likely among the 31...