medication

I've become interesting in finding natural emotional suppressants, just to explore how life would be like without emotion. I stumbled across Lithium, after I researched the meaning of the old Evanescence song. It turns out that Lithium consumed over lengthy periods of time suppresses emotional...

About a year ago my local Boots pharmacy supplied me with Prozac instead of my usual Seroxat anti-depressant. I took them for a few days, thinking they were more or less the same, and started to get severe withdrawal symptoms. I took them back, the pharmacist was very apologetic, and said that...

What is it about the denial of mental illness/mental disorders/neurological disorders that seems to be so appealing to some people? Is there a different appeal to denying each group? (For instance, the first group might contain schizophrenia, and ADHD would be in the second group kind of shading...

I just heard on NPR that a study has been published which would indicate that studies which are positive of psychiatic medication usage are published at a rate of 90% as compared to studies which are negative of use which are published at 8%. So there is a definite bias in publishing research...

In the recent Autism thread there where statements made about the response of children with ADD to Ritalin differing from neurotypical children. The idea is that children with ADD find the stimulant calming while neurotypical children would not be calmed by a stimulant. As some of the more...

Should having a drug prescribe for an off label use, so that it was not actually studied for its effectiveness for that use, be considered evidence based medicine? I have wondered how much off label use is effectively a placebo for a while. I am sure for some it is and some it isn't, and the...

Man... I was sleeping through this court case: http://www.schaler.net/inthenews/ritalin.htm Does anyone know if there have been similar situations? I mean forcing parents to use Ritalin or have their child put in protective custody. I just couldn't believe it when I read the story. Even if it...