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NATIONAL ADE AWARENESS DAY WEBINAR | PREVENTING ADVERSE DRUG EVENTS & SAVING LIVES
Adverse drug events (ADEs) are now the third leading cause of death in the U.S.—and most are preventable. This powerful webinar, held on National Adverse Drug Event Awareness Day, brings together leading voices from across healthcare to spotlight this urgent crisis and explore real-world strategies to reduce medication-related harm.
NEUROPLASTICITY: A PATH FOR HEALING FROM PROTRACTED WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS
A panel discussion on neuroplasticity and how it offers hope for healing from protracted psychiatric drug withdrawal symptoms. Neuroplasticity, a well-established scientific principle, highlights the brain’s remarkable ability to reorganize and form new synaptic connections, particularly in response to injury.
JO WATSON INTERVIEWS KATE SILVERTON + LIVE Q&A WITH LUCY JOHNSTONE AT THE AD4E FESTIVAL 2023
Journalist and child therapist Kate Silverton talks to Jo Watson at the AD4E festival about her work with children and her book There's No Such Thing as Naughty' and then joins Dr Lucy Johnstone for a live Q&A
THE PROBLEM WITH SSRIS & WHAT PSYCHIATRISTS WON'T TELL YOU - WITH DR. GABOR MATÉ
Although SSRIs can be extremely effective and helpful for the initial treatment of depression and other mental health issues, Dr. Gabor Maté explains how these are being mis-used in our medical system. Describing that once someone is on 'stable ground' with SSRIs, that is when the treatment should begin, though commonly in our culture - that is where it ends.
WHISTLE-BLOWERS IN THE MEDICAL WORLD AND LITIGATION AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR SILENCING WHISTLE-BLOWERS
Dr Peter Wilmshurst is a British consultant cardiologist. He has been legally challenged on multiple occasions by drug and medical device makers after he demonstrated gross research misconduct and data manipulation. A few of the topics covered in this interview include how a medical device company asked him to remove data from studies, the fact that doctors are falsifying research, the enormous financial resources of the medical industry that are used to fight anyone who opposes them and how so-called eminence-based science has taken over from evidence-based science.
REGULATORY AUTHORITIES AND LICENSURE BOARDS ARE BEING USED TO CONTROL MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE
Pam Popper talks about how regulatory authorities and licensure boards are being used to control medicine and healthcare. She calls it controlling the message by controlling the messenger and highlights the political aspects of healthcare in the USA and the huge power yielded by lobbyists for the food industry.
PATIENT-CENTRED MEDICINE IS JUST A BUZZ WORD
Pam Popper talks about how so-called patient-centred medicine has become very popular but is actually just a buzz word. Instead, she focuses on patient-centred healthcare. Changes and treatment should be meaningful and the outcome should be a better quality of life. People just want to live well.
BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY PANEL WEBINAR - WORKING WITH CLIENTS TAKING OR WITHDRAWING FROM PRESCRIBED PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS
Event hosted by the British Psychological Society discussing the issue of increasing numbers of prescriptions of psychiatric drugs, including benzodiazepines, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and stimulants. The event is based on the “Guidance for Psychological Therapists – Enabling conversations with clients taking or withdrawing from prescribed psychiatric drugs”. Speakers: Professor John Read, Professor Joanna Moncrieff, Dr Mark Horowitz and Dr Anne Guy. https://prescribeddrug.info/training/
THE ZYPREXA PAPERS
Jim Gottstein reads portions of and talks about his book, The Zyprexa Papers. https://thezyprexapapers.com/
ISSM WEBINAR ON POST SSRI SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION
This ISSM Webinar is on Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction. The webinar will be opened by Annamaria Giraldi, ISSM President (Denmark). The webinar will be moderated by Alan Shindel (USA) and Marco Gonçalves (Portugal). Topics: Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD): history and relevance – David Healy (Republic of Ireland); Explanatory Processes and Diagnosis of PSSD: what do we still need to know? – Yacov Reisman (the Netherlands); Q&A Session led by the moderator.
PSYCHOACTIVE MEDICATION & VIOLENCE | FORENSICS TALKS EP. 34 | SELMA EIKELENBOOM | CSI
Dr. Eikelenboom has been studying the use of psychoactive prescription medications and their effects on emotional state and violence. Since the 1950s, physicians have reported paradoxical adverse reactions from psychoactive medication ranging from newly developing depressions to an increase in existing mood disorders and extremely violent acts of suicide and homicide. Her research suggests that there is an association between prescription drugs (most notably antidepressants and other psychoactive medication), having variant alleles for CYP450 genes, and altered emotional states or acts of violence.
ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN THE MEDICAL FIELD IS UNDER THREAT FROM COMMERCIAL INTERESTS
Interview with David Hammerstein, 2019. David Hammerstein has been working since 2015 as a civil society advocate for the Commons Network, a small German NGO with offices in Berlin and Brussels of which he is co-founder. The Commons Network focusses on the defense of the knowledge commons and access to medicines. He also works as an advocate for the World Blind Union and the European Blind Union on issues of disability rights.
THE BREAKDOWN PODCAST EP4 - JAMES MOORE ON ANTIDEPRESSANT WITHDRAWALS
James Moore is a campaigner for the provision of tapering strips through the NHS to help users who want to stop taking prescription drugs for anxiety & depression (antidepressants, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines and opioids). James was taking the antidepressant Mirtazapine for 6 years. We discuss the effects of withdrawal that he experienced. James is the host of the Let’s Talk Withdrawal podcast which was created to share both expert views and the lived experience of those who have taken and withdrawn from a range of psychiatric medications.
TRAUMA AND MENTAL HEALTH: BEYOND PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS
Do you still need your psychiatric diagnosis? Or should we be asking not: “What is wrong with you?” but rather: “What has happened to you?” Mental distress is very real. But what we are very rarely told is that the dominant explanations for these experiences – such as that they are ‘symptoms’ of an ‘illness’ caused by a ‘chemical imbalance’ which psychiatric drugs will rectify – has never had any evidence to support it. Dr Lucy Johnstone, CPsychol, is a UK clinical psychologist, trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of biomedical model psychiatry.
STEPHEN SHELLER, ESQ. - "BIG PHARMA, BIG GREED" - 2019 22ND ANNUAL ISEPP CONFERENCE
Stephen Sheller, Esq. provides a lecture entitled "Big Pharma, Big Greed" at the 22nd Annual ISEPP Conference (International Society of Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry) held between the 11th - 13th October 2019.
AWTTC BEST PRACTICE DAY 2019: CAMPAIGNING FOR BETTER RECOGNITION OF PRESCRIBED DRUG DEPENDENCE
Stevie Lewis, Campaigner, presents 'Campaigning for better recognition and support of prescribed drug dependence' at AWTTC’s Best Practice Day 2019. All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre (AWTTC). Information, education and advice on medicines to improve patient experience and outcomes in Wales.
DR. LUCY JOHNSTONE - METALOG'S 4TH CONFERENCE - AUGUST 28TH, 2019 - DENMARK
"Ask What Happened - Not What’s Wrong!" Dr. Lucy Johnstone, clinical psychologist and author. August 28th, 2019. The Power Threat Meaning Framework is an alternative to the diagnostic model of mental distress.
DR. GLENN BEGLEY: PERVERSE INCENTIVES PROMOTE SCIENTIFIC LAZINESS, EXAGGERATION, AND DESPERATION
“What I'm alleging is that the reviewers, the editors of the so-called top-tier journals, grant review committees, promotion committees, and the scientific community repeatedly tolerate poor-quality science,” said Dr. Glenn Begley during a CrossFit Health event at CrossFit Headquarters on June 7, 2019.
DR. JASON FUNG: FINANCIAL CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS AND THE END OF EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE
“Evidence-based medicine is actually so corrupt as to be useless or harmful,” Marcia Angell wrote in 2009. The statement was less a revelation than something many already knew, but it made waves because of its source. Angell, a medical insider, had spent two decades as the editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Jason Fung is also a medical insider who has become wary of scientific research that purports to be “evidence based.”
DR. MALCOLM KENDRICK ON DOCTORING DATA
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick has long been an outspoken skeptic with regard to the medical status quo. “It’s just not possible to believe much of the clinical research that’s published,” he says. In this talk, he shares one thread of his “dangerous” thinking — a thread that follows the distortion of data pertaining to cholesterol and statin research, which he explores in greater detail in his second book, Doctoring Data.
POWER THREAT MEANING FRAMEWORK - LUCY JOHNSTONE - OCTOBER 23, 2018 - CPH
Lucy introduces us to the recently published “Power Threat Meaning Framework” which she co-authored. The ambition of this work is nothing less than offering an alternative to psychiatric diagnostics and the biomedical, psychopathological way of perceiving mental suffering.
CE QUE CONTIENNENT VRAIMENT LES ANTIDEPRESSEURS, PAR LE PR EVEN | DERRIER L'ETIQUETTE X L'OBS | BEHIND THE LABEL
Derrière l'étiquette. Philippe Even, pneumologue, passe au crible les antidépresseurs, consommés en moyenne par 8 millions de Français chaque année. "Inutiles 4 fois sur 5, ils ont le même effet que des placebos dopés, soit des placebos augmentés d'amidon, de sucre ou de solution amer". Il signe, avec le professeur Bernard Debré, un nouvel essai polémique : "Dépressions, antidépresseurs, psychotropes et drogues" (Cherche-Midi).
THE POWER OF WORDS -- 21ST CENTURY MENTAL HEALTH
A panel of experts discuss the challenges of mental health in the 21st century at the 2018 Ledbury Poetry Festival. David Harding, Support and Development Manager at Herefordshire Mind (chair); Paul Farmer CBE, CEO of Mind; Dr Lucy Johnstone, clinical psychologist and author; Jo Watson, psychotherapist and campaigner. Filmed by mediaSHYPP for Herefordshire Mind.
R.D. LAING AND THE FUTURE OF THE PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVOR MOVEMENT - WILL HALL
2015 talk by Will Hall at the Esalen R.D. Laing in the 21st Century Symposium. Will Hall is a therapist, teacher, PhD candidate at Maastricht University and a longtime organizer with the psychiatric survivor movement.
PHILLIP SINAIKIN: WHY DID PROMINENT PSYCHIATRIST ALLEN FRANCES WRITE A BOOK TITLED "SAVING NORMAL"?
Talk by psychiatrist Phil Sinaiken at the 2018 International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry annual conference describing the great excesses and harm caused by psychiatric practices as well as their lack of scientific support.
DR JOHN ABRAMSON MD MS AUTHOR OF OVERDO$ED AMERICA
John Abramson MD MS has served as a family physician for 22 years. He has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for 16 years, where he has taught primary care and currently teaches health care policy. He currently consults as an expert in litigation involving the pharmaceutical industry and has served as an unpaid consultant to the FBI and Department of Justice.
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS - COMING OFF MEDICATIONS WITH WILL HALL
Will Hall is a nationally recognized mental health advocate, counselor, and speaker. He is also the author of the "Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs". Host Shannon Eliot catches up with him at the recent WRAP Around the World Conference in Oakland to chat about about mental health stigma, the controversy around psychiatric medication, suicidal feelings, and how society defines normality.
COMING OFF PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS WORKSHOP WITH WILL HALL
How can anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, mood stabilizers, and other drugs be used wisely? What are the risks and benefits? How can we collaborate effectively with prescribers, and what about reducing and discontinuing medications? Come learn a pragmatic harm reduction approach that is neither pro- nor anti- medication, but instead based in mental diversity. Everyone is welcome: professionals, survivors, students, family, and anyone taking or not taking medications. In a workshop at the 2013 WRAP Around the World Conference in Oakland, Will Hall addresses these issues.
COMING OFF PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS: A HARM REDUCTION APPROACH TO MEDICATION WITHDRAWAL | WILL HALL
Psychiatric medications can sometimes be very useful, but there is often little information or guidance when the risks and harm start to outweigh the benefits. Will Hall provides an introductory overview of how to come off psychiatric medication.
THE ILLEGALITY OF PSYCHIATRIC IMPRISONMENT, FORCED DRUGGING AND FORCED ELECTROSHOCK IN THE U.S.
This video, shot by Lise Zumwalt, is of a presentation by Jim Gottstein at the 2011 PsychOUT conference in New York City, where he talks about how people's constitutional rights not to be locked up and drugged or electroshocked against their will unless certain conditions are met are pervasively ignored.
CORONER'S OPINION ON MEDICINE LINKED DEATHS
Coroner Nigel Meadows suspects some deaths are linked to adverse drug reactions (ADRs) but cannot always find the evidence needed to prove this.
His comments about doctors not understanding what is wrong with patients and inaccurate autopsy conclusions are startling.
