Exposing Psychology, Exalting Christ September 2006 Issue 8 Things You Need to Know...

 

FDA conflicts of interest: protect the public or pharma?

Does FDA approval mean a psychiatric drug is safe and effective? Not when drug companies run the show. Drug trials are frequently funded, conducted and policed by drug companies or companies controlled or funded by drug companies. Trial results are frequently altered or withheld in order to provide the FDA with approval-safe data, or simply ignored by the FDA (Prozac and Seroxat cases in point). Why has the FDA ignored the facts? Because, as these articles describe, many advisory board members have financial ties to drug companies, including FDA head Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach and second-in-command Dr. Scott Gottlieb. In addition, 53% of FDA program funding comes from drug companies the FDA is supposed to regulate! Learn more about the broken and corrupt system we call the FDA here:

http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/329/55/

http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/332/55/

 

Drug companies expanding their markets to healthy people under the banner of "Pre-Disease"

Pre-diabetes. Pre-hypertension. Pre-osteoperosis. These are just three of the new category of "pre-diseases" that drug companies, doctors and the FDA are now peddling, capturing more patients by lowering the bar to include those potentially at risk. "Not content with selling $317 billion worth of drugs annually, the pharmacy companies have come up with a way to double those sales by selling drugs to healthy people. Millions of Americans who were pronounced healthy at their last check-up will now be told they fall into this “nearly-sick” classification. Most will be told they need a drug and many will comply because, after all, it’s their doctor saying this." Here is the full article.

http://www.regardingme.com/selling-predisease-a-17.html?sPath=64&iPath=7

Former Baseball Pitcher Jeff Reardon robs jewelry store while on psych drug cocktail

 

Three murders, one thing in common: Effexor

When the nation learned that Andrea Yates drowned her five kids in the bathtub of her Houston, Texas home back in 2001, many were asking why? Later it was discovered that weeks before the murders, her daily dose of Effexor was increased to twice the recommended maximum dose. Effexor carries a black box warning for suicidal ideation, and last year the FDA added a warning for potential "homicidal ideation." SSRI antidepressants like Effexor are making otherwise normal people cold-blooded killers:

15-year-old boy on Effexor hears voices and fatally shoots 7-11 clerk in Mount Vernon, VA

http://www.nbc4.com/news/9812821/detail.html

Australian mother on Effexor twice attempts to kill herself and her two daughters, taken off of drug in jail, and completely recovers. The judge blames her behavior on the Effexor and sends her home.

http://www.psychologydebunked.com/email0609_Effexor1.htm

Woman on Effexor torches home and watches TV while her 3-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son burn to death.

http://www.psychologydebunked.com/email0609_Effexor2.htm

Birmingham psychiatrist ousted for curing patients

   

An underactive thyroid can cause depression, says UK doctor

An estimated 1 in 50 women and 1 in 1,000 men suffer from hypothyroidism, or an underactive thyroid, which can cause depression, excessive tiredness, weight gain, constipation, aches and pains, feeling cold, dry skin, memory loss, and reduced libido. The woman in this article suffered for years and was referred to a psychiatrist for an antidepressant, when in reality all she needed was "a relatively simple regime of supplements and [thyroid] medication," which helped her improve in just three weeks. Her doctor states, "The sad truth for sufferers is that, with symptoms so general, they are usually sent away from their GP and told they're suffering from stress or depression... They're put on Prozac that does nothing to help the true cause."

Read this woman's amazing story here.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article1363118.ece

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New Psychology Debunked Conference CDs Now Available!

We are now offering the 2006 Psychology Debunked Conference on either an audio CD set (5 CDs) or an MP3 CD, featuring five hours of author presentations of the following topics (updated and expanded):

 

•Session 1: The Sandy Foundations of Psychology and Psychiatry –Introduction –Psychology's Foundational Theories –The DSM and the Mental Disorder Myth –Disease or Choice? –…and Disorders for All	• Session 2: Psychotherapy and Psychiatric Drugs: Science or Big Business? –Is Psychotherapy Helpful? –Are Psychiatric Drugs Helpful? –The Drug Industry –Rethinking Mental Health –Q&A
• Session 3: Mental Health Screening: Government Control over our Mental Health –Introduction –New Freedom Commission on Mental Health –TeenScreen –Signs of Suicide –Problems with Screening Mental Health –Brain Scans – Potential Screening Tool –Brain Drives Mind or Mind Drives Brain? –Screening – What Can I Do? –Q&A	• Session 4: Psychology in the Church –“Christian” Psychology – an Oxymoron –Psychological Programs –Personality Testing –Worldly Wisdom vs. Godly Wisdom –Q&A
• Session 5: Everything We Need: Returning to the Biblical Model of Help –Returning to the Biblical Model of Help –Living by the Spirit –The 3 Qualifications of the Overcoming Life –Christ’s Grace is Sufficient –Q&A

 

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