These are the speaking notes for two talks given in Chicago on Monday February 18th and Tuesday February 19th. The S2, S3 in the text refers to slides which are available here: Slides 1 and Slides 2. The video is available here: Part 1 and Part 2. The first slides features RxISK.org where we have created a Violence Zone and want you to get anyone who may have been made violent … [Read more...] about Prescription-only Homicide and Violence
Archives for February 2013
Not So Black: Ablixa and Homicidal Side Effects
If you don't want to know what happens in the movie Side Effects - do not read further. The post does not reveal all but does reveal important details. So now we know Soderbergh’s movie Side Effects is not so Black/Noir after all – more Fifty Shades of Grey. Emily Hawkins (Rooney Mara) is put on Ablixa by her psychiatrist Jonathan Banks (Jude Law) and while on it kills her … [Read more...] about Not So Black: Ablixa and Homicidal Side Effects
Prozac and SSRIs: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary
One prescription for every man, woman and child Prozac was approved in 1987 in the US, and launched in early 1988, followed by a clutch of other SSRIs. Twenty-five years later, we now have one prescription for an antidepressant for every single person in the West per year. Twenty-five years before Prozac, 1 in 10,000 of us per year was admitted for severe depressive … [Read more...] about Prozac and SSRIs: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary