By Susan Boskey (This is the 2nd of the series: The Anxiety Epidemic. Read Part I of the series here.) Hands down the pharmaceutical industry has cornered the market when it comes to helping people overcome symptoms of various anxiety disorders. With statistical evidence of the notable increase in anti-anxiety […]
By Susan Boskey Last week I read an article titled, “Anti-anxiety meds could be next U.S. epidemic.” [1] I think a better title would have been: Anxiety: a U.S. Epidemic. How do we know anxiety is of epidemic proportions? We know because statistics reveal a dramatic bump in the number […]
By Luís Fernando Tófoli, Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Dráulio Barros de Araújo, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), and Fernanda Palhano-Fontes, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil) “Leon” is a young Brazilian man who has long struggled with depression. He keeps an anonymous blog, in Portuguese, […]
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze As more and more evidence demonstrating that ketamine, a veterinary anesthetic used recreationally by many people, can actually produce benefits, scientists are increasingly looking at the possibility that ketamine can be used to treat disorders like depression. Many casual ketamine users have long known that ketamine can […]
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze “Violence and other potentially criminal behaviors caused by prescription drugs are medicine’s best kept secret.” — David Healy, UK psychiatrist and author (and co-founder of www.RxISK.org) “The establishment media ignores the scientific evidence linking psychiatric medications and violent behavior because psychiatry is […]
By Alex Pietrowski The first two pharmaceutical antidepressants were clinically introduced in the 1950s, and the conditions they were supposed to treat would have at that time been found in about 50 to 100 persons per million. Today, some 13% of Americans now take antidepressants daily, even though we don’t […]
By Rachel Blevins Every time there are reports of a mass shooting, there are a number of people who automatically question whether the suspect had mental health issues or was taking prescription medications such as antidepressants. While history has shown that the most notorious mass shooters in this century were […]
By Jon Rappoport Listen to this man. You’d better listen. His name is Peter Breggin. He is a world famous psychiatrist. He has been called the conscience of his profession. Here is an excerpt from his bio: “Peter R. Breggin MD is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former Consultant at NIMH […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Ketamine is again being explored (and held under the heat lamp) as a possible antidepressant treatment since the effects of the drug could take place much faster than many antidepressants. Experts weigh in on two recent reviews. “Recent studies suggest that ketamine, a widely used anesthetic agent, could […]
By Gary G. Kohls, MD, guest to Natural Blaze (And The FBI’s Deadly, Deceptive Blind Spot) “Our hopeless, futureless, jobless, parentless, abused, neglected, over-indulged, unloved, sleep-deprived, mal-nourished, over-vaccinated, over-drugged and bullied “loners” represent what can be considered America’s new normal.” Ho hum, there was another mass shooting at another school a […]