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Dr. David Healy

Psychiatrist. Psychopharmacologist. Scientist. Author.

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Contents

  • Data Based Medicine Sites
  • Samizdat Health
    • Shipwreck of the Singular Resources
  • Restoring Study 329
  • Antidepressant Risk Sites
  • Politics of Care on YouTube
  • News archive
  • Non-affiliated websites

Data Based Medicine Sites

RxISK.org is a medication safety website featuring a blog, adverse event reporting system, and free tools and resources to help you weigh the benefits of a drug against its side effects.

RxISK - Search and report prescription drug side effects

TaperMD is a revolutionary solution to the problems of managing multiple medications in older adults. Developed with McMaster University, it was built to help patients, doctors and pharmacists work as a team to address the serious problems of polypharmacy and drug side effects, and to fit in with normal consultation processes and flow.

Samizdat Health

Samizdat Health is an international writers’ co-operative co-founded by David Healy and Billiam James. It is open to taking works in fiction, non-fiction, graphic or other forms, that engage with the difficulties and issues thrown up by “health”. Current publications are:

  • The Decapitation of Care
  • Children of the Cure
  • Prescription for Sorrow
  • The Zyprexa Papers
  • Shipwreck of the Singular: Healthcare’s Castaways
  • Obedience Pills

Shipwreck of the Singular Resources

The Samizdat Health site offers a list of all the resources and references that went into the making of Shipwreck of the Singular – which could have been called The Politics of Care.

Not only is there a list of resources but close to half of the list comes with downloadable references including many key books where these are available on the web.

The books that can be accessed there include Healy’s Images of Trauma, along with all 4 volumes of The Psychopharmacologists and a translation of Philippe Pinel’s Mania.

Restoring Study 329

Study329.org chronicles the clinical trial of paroxetine (Paxil/Seroxat) in adolescents which led to a $3 billion settlement, and the subsequent reanalysis of the trial and reluctance of BMJ to publish.

It offers access to company documents linked to a fraud action New York State took against GlaxoSmithKline, the makers of paroxetine. The story behind the emergence of these documents is told in Children of the Cure.

Study329.org also holds a set of Eli Lilly documents linked to legal trials involving Lilly’s post Prozac drug Zyprexa/olanzapine. The Zyprexa Papers gives some idea about how these documents came to light. This account has no link the availability of the documents on this site.

Antidepressant Risk Sites

Antidepressant Risks began life with the idea of being a Memorial Wall for people whose lives had been blighted by the side effects of antidepressants and the difficulty of withdrawal from them or who had lost loved ones to antidepressant-induced suicide or homicide. After several years gestation, it took shape thanks to the efforts of Katinka Newman with help from Julie Wood.

If you have lost someone or have lost a life and are willing to give an account of what happened and a photo of either you or the person you have lost, contact Katinka Newman on this site.

Antidepressant Risks also contains details of books which bring the grim reality of psychopharmaceutical assault very vividly to light. One of the best of these books is Katinka’s The Pill that Steals Lives. If you think there are other books that could be added here, get in touch.

Antidepressant Risks puts human faces to what we have lived through in the last three decades.

Antidep Effects and Romain Schmitt were set up by Yoko Motohama and Vincent Schmitt, the parents of Romain who was put on paroxetine and took his own life. Since his death, they have been on a mission to find out how something like this can happen and, in collaboration with Ariane Denoyel, have done a great deal to raise the profile of antidepressant-induced deaths among teenagers in France and elsewhere. Their input has helped RxISK and me to tighten up our message about what we can offer you.

Politics of Care on YouTube

The videos below cover central Shipwreck – Politics of Care – issues.

These three lectures give a precis of the Shipwreck problem. The first two are not for the squeamish – there are 4 decapitations. The third contains sexual material that may offend some.

Shipwreck Maastricht (2019)

Shipwreck Bangor (2019)

Sex and Evidence Based Medicine (2021)

These two clips about Stephen O’Neill’s death encapsulate the Shipwreck issues. There is extensive correspondence about his death with Ministers of Health, NICE Guidelines, Regulators and others on this website. These make it painfully clear the authorities know about the problems but have opted to wash their hands.

The Death of Stephen O’Neill

The Perfect Killing Machine

These two lectures look at Shipwreck through an Economics is from Mars and Medicine from Venus lens rather than Decapitation.

HealthCare or Health Services

A Pill for Neoliberalism

A key Shipwreck claim is that Controlled Trials can be useful but we need to be cautious in how we use their findings.

Time to Abandon Evidence Based Medicine

Does My Bias Look Big in This

All of the problems Shipwreck tackles show up in the use of antidepressants for children and especially in Study 329.

Study 329: The Famous Grouse

Antidepressants and Children

A series of related lectures.

Drug Story: The Antidepressant Era

Better to Die on Your Feet

Psychotropic Drugs and Violence 

Pharmageddon and Slow Medicine

Sex has the capacity to disrupt everything, including the best laid plans of the pharmaceutical industry.

Antidepressants and Sex

Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD)

Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD)

News archive

The news archive contains links to various media articles, videos and radio interviews involving.

Non-affiliated websites

The following websites are not linked to Healy, RxISK or Samizdat but are worth visiting.

AntiDepAware includes links to reports of inquests held in England and Wales since 2003. Most of these were found in the online archives of local and national newspapers. It contains summaries of more than 7,500 reports on self-inflicted deaths, all of which are related to the use of antidepressants.

The Honest Psychiatrist is a Facebook page featuring satirical memes related to psychiatry.

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