There are 2 more Riffs on Children of the Cure, with more on the way and 1 on The Decapitation of Care. The image above isn’t quite right – might be better to have Lilly, Pfizer, Merck and GSK represented on the name plates. The illustrations in the Riffs however are the usual compelling imagery from Bill James.
Patrick Hahn who has been writing extensively on aspects of the history of mental health, and who hopefully has a forthcoming book, Prescription for Sorrow, with Samizdat has written about Vickie, under the heading Paxil turned me into a Monster. This is featured on the Samizdat site but can be accessed from the link there.
Annie Bevan who has been one of the most regular contributors to RxISK.org and David Healy.org in a piece called Shock Waves has covered her own history, likely the history of many people, which brings into the frame news this week of just how stacked against ordinary folk the system is – just as much in Europe as in North America. Also on Samizdat and here.
Kent Winward has written a piece on The Decapitation of Care under the title My Wife was Poisoned. I only came across this by accident, and had not heard of Kent Winward before, but it beautifully catches some of the key points behind the book.
There are two more Riffs in waiting and last weeks The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – see The Spooking of Ichabod Crane – has been put on two listserves read by people who have lived through the events from the academic, journal editor and pharmaceutical industry side, just the opposite side to Annie this week and Heather two weeks ago, and Jim Gottstein and Bill Bigley also, – it will be interesting to see what Riffs, if any, come from the other side.
Meanwhile we are moving closer and closer to the publication of Malcharist – what’s in a name? One of the features of this extraordinary book is it has a series of jigsaw pieces that fit together in a number of different ways with each configuration working equally well and coming to the same ending – but what happens at the end? Who are the Damned and who are the Saved?
Beyond Malcharist, Patrick Hahn has a book which will come out, under the Samizdat imprint, soon afterwards, and before the year ends Samizdat hopes to publish The Shipwreck of the Singular for which The Decapitation of Care was a trailer.
Meanwhile, The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine, The Zyprexa Papers and Children of the Cure provide the greatest trove of documents about the pharmaceutical industry there is with each book acting as a guide – not telling you what the documents mean but telling you how they came about and the impact on peoples lives from companies viewing the medicines they make in the way these documents suggest they have been viewing them – not the kind of thing you’d expect in the Temple of Medicine, so much as a means of money making or rent extraction.
Let’s Go Samizdat
Remit
The scope of this report is suicide in adults, dealing specifically with people over the age of 18 in community and in-patient settings. It addresses the management of self‑harm and suicide across the UK. We are aware that self‑harm and suicide are societal issues, subject to government policy, suicide prevention strategies and NICE guidelines on self‑harm.
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/improving-care/better-mh-policy/college-reports/cr229_self-harm-and-suicide.pdf
Let’s Go
Samizdat
https://samizdathealth.org/
Reviews and Riffs – Putting a ‘Spanner’ in the ‘Works’…
Akathisia – The Taboo Terminology
https://fiddaman.blogspot.com/2020/07/akathisia-taboo-terminology.html#.Xx1DilqSk2w
This is what happens when doctors become overconfident, when the whole cabal falls on it’s feet; with these shocking statistics and RCP endorsing the prescribing of antidepressants to the little people..
Shock NHS figures show 703 anti-depressants prescriptions given to one-year-olds
EXCLUSIVE: Figures cover England from 2015 to 2019 as it is revealed infants are routinely prescribed the drugs to stabilise their moods, as 1,572 under fives in total are recorded to have been referred
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shock-nhs-figures-show-703-22416118
– reflecting a degree of Righteous anger at a corruption of something sacred
@samizdathealth
Dee Doherty
@Deedoherty2
@samizdathealth
@DrDavidHealy
· 18 Apr 2018
Abuse does lasting harm. Denial and cover-up by those in power compounds the harm. If Pope Francis can admit he screwed up, what about the various Popes of psychiatry?
https://davidhealy.org/the-horrific-effects-of-not-being-believed/
The Samizdat Umbrella of Books cries out for Readership..
Something is amiss with CR229
Kristina K. Gehrki
@AkathisiaRx
Strategic Communicator. Public Health Advocate. Educator. Humanist: I share Natalie’s prescribed torture & death with the hope other children might live.
Kristina K. Gehrki
@AkathisiaRx
·
4/4 For years I’ve read countless tweets by @rcpsych @ProfLAppleby & alleged #suicide prevention/med professionals claiming they didn’t know or need more info. Their recent report omitting akathisia info isn’t willful blindness–it’s sadistically criminal.
‘It is my view that it is unforgivable for ‘Suicide Prevention’ programes/initiatives/strategies/policies to ignore learning from life.’
https://holeousia.com/2020/07/26/glad-its-all-over/
You have to wonder if at some point legal action needs to be taken when so much has been offered to RCP and it is carefully orchestrated to avoid at all costs anything resembling transparency.
Either collectively or individually, RCP are creating a massive crater in which to pile the bodies and this needs at some point to be taken extremely seriously… this body is not fit for purpose.
The likes of Sir Professor Simon Wessely with his hotline to the BBC; Today, FM, Newsnight, and Wendy Burn with her prognostic letter to The Times newspaper, for which she has never apologised.
This is a scandalous situation in which the UK finds itself…
The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine: Chapter 8.
SOLUTIONS.
“THERE WILL BE JUSTICE ….. WHEN THOSE WHO ARE NOT INJURED ARE AS OUTRAGED AS THOSE WHO ARE”.
Thucydides.
Thank you Jon Jureidini and Leemon B. McHenry.
The Samizdat Books read so far are courageous, meticulous publications which endorse and define the tragedy of Evidence De-Based Medicine.
(Clinically significant AKATHISIA occurs in 20% OF THOSE TAKING SSRIs/SNRIs: —
How does a prescriber diagnose AKATHISIA in an infant or toddler, even if they have heard of AKATHISIA)?
Trump’s vaccine chief picks his own former employer—where he still holds millions worth of stock—for $2.1 billion deal
July 31, 2020
“You can’t have a contractor supervising government officials.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trumps-vaccine-chief-picks-his-own-former-employer-where-he-still-holds-millions-worth-of-stock-for-2-1-billion-deal/
Elizabeth Warren
@SenWarren
It is a huge conflict of interest for the White House’s new vaccine czar to own $10 million of stock in a company receiving government funding to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Slaoui should divest immediately. statnews.com/2020/05/15/tru…
Anyone rumbling Sir Patrick Vallance whose ‘Career’ at GlaxoSmithKline is kept ‘under wraps’ –
Sir Patrick Vallance, is the Chief Scientific Adviser in the United Kingdom and a key figure in dealing with the coronavirus in the UK and the plans for a vaccine. Vallance worked for GSK between 2006 and 2018. By the time he left GSK he was a member of the board and the corporate executive team. Fines took place while Vallance was working as a senior figure at GSK.
…
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/business/glaxo-opens-door-to-data-on-its-research.html
It did not admit any wrongdoing related to reporting clinical trial data in Paxil.
Dr. Vallance said that the panel would be composed of experts respected internationally, and researchers’ proposals would be accepted even if the release would cast the drugs in a negative light.
“We’ve been caught by some things in the past — I think we want to be clear on this,” he said.
Is any country squeaky clean when it comes to Pharma bribery & corruption.
Doctor first do no harm, but you do, then you lie….
I will leave this here – 2020 News, or not?
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/novartis-shells-out-729m-to-settle-dragged-out-u-s-kickback-charges-limits-speaker-programs
Just ordered a copy of the Malcharist by John Paul Scott
https://samizdathealth.org/
Appropriately timed in the current climate where your drug can be the last decision you ever make, and if I read it rightly, not having read it yet, what happens to the executives of the pharma companies and what happens to all those professionals who bigged up the drugs and what happens when we all come back down to earth…
So far, I have a feeling that John Paul Scott may have not just lifted the lid, he may have lifted the skulduggery, rife in our midst. It sounds very exciting and if it is the swashbuckler, as promised, hope the Execs and the Profs get the taste of it…
The Malcharist…
Notes on a ‘Forthcoming’ Scandal..
MALCHARIST
The debut novel from journalist and writer Paul John Scott
https://pauljohnscott.com/
It’s a neologism, a made-up word that can be read to mean “bad power,” “bad sacrament” or maybe even “bad spirit.” It hopes to ask whether medications are becoming like religious sacraments, secular rites that can provide moral comfort and even spiritual identity in the declining influence of religion and the fracturing of our politics. It also hopes to ask if we really know who created these sacraments, and whether their handiwork is good for us as human beings.
Chronic pain: Antidepressants not painkillers recommended
By Rachel Schraer
Health reporter
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53649189
https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/commonly-used-treatments-for-chronic-pain-can-do-more-harm-than-good-and-should-not-be-used-says-nice-in-draft-guidance
14 1.3.8
Consider an antidepressant, either Duloxetine, Fluoxetine, Paroxetine, Citalopram, Sertraline or Amitriptyline
Safe prescribing and withdrawal management of prescribed drugs associated with dependence and withdrawal
In development [GID-NG10141]Expected publication date: 17 November 2021
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/GID-NG10069/documents/draft-guideline
Paul Chrisp, director of the Center for Guidelines at NICE on lunchtime BBC News today gave a wishy-washy narrative which could have been written on the back of a crisp packet.
‘The original Samizdat was an undergrounds messaging system in the Soviet Union where dissidents passed on writings – often on toilet paper.’
John Paul Scott’s ‘neologism’ gives a Samizdat narrative which has much more flavour…