USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education) - The dark side of psychiatric drugs - The United States of Violence: A Special Section - Cover Story
January 8th, 2009 Thorazine, Haldol, and other medication prescribed by psychiatrists can destroy the lives of people who take them.
Virtually all person who go to psychiatrists are put on one or more drugs. However, psychiatric drugs, which are unpredictable and extremely deadly, do not cure anything, and instead destroy the life…
Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association - The conventional long-acting antipsychotics
January 6th, 2009In the last primer, we discussed the first long-acting formulation of an atypical antipsychotic, Risperdal Consta, which became available in 2003. For the sake of completeness regarding this primer, it should be noted that long-acting forms of two conventional antipsychotics were developed in the 1960s, …
Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession - Combative patient: jury rules hospital staff not liable
January 3rd, 2009 The seventy-nine year-old patient was admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit for diabetic ketoacidosis.
The next evening she removed her monitor hook-ups, got out of bed and insisted that she would be leaving. Three nurses put her back t…
Newsweek - Long Shot
January 1st, 2009As jury selection in the Andrea Yates trial wrapped up this week, the Houston mother accused of drowning her five children seemed at ease. She smiled, waved and mouthed “I love you” to her mother and mother-in-law when they left the courtroom.
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Southern Review, The - Haldol
December 28th, 2008 I’ll wear a long-sleeve shirt with cuffs
for protection–never restrain
an escalated girl alone–since the night
the Haldol wore so thin
she sputtered saliva and flung her weight
against each lock on the ward
I’d bolted, tight as the door of seclusion,
which only opens out
so she can’t kick it shut and trap us in.
That night her teeth chewed the skin up
and down my arms,…
Clinical Psychiatry News - Quetiapine rivals lithium, haloperidol
December 27th, 2008 SAN Francisco - Quetiapine monotherapy for bipolar I mania is as effective as lithium or haloperidol–and with markedly fewer side effects, Martin W Jones, Ph.D., said at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.
He reported on a pooled analysis of two double-blind phase III clinical trials involving 604 pati…
Internal Medicine News - Haloperidol may raise risk of heart arrhythmia
December 21st, 2008 Patients taking the antipsychotic drug haloperidol may be at increased risk for heart rhythm abnormalities, according to a Food and Drug Administration alert.
Revised labeling on the drug, marketed as Haldol, Haldol decanoate, and Haldol lactate, includes a cardiovascular subsection explaining the…
Bipolar Disorder
December 15th, 2008Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person’s mood, energy, and their ability to function. It is an illness that affects thoughts, feelings, perceptions and behavior and is distinguished from Major Depressive Disorder by the presence of manic or hypomanic episodes. It can cause dramatic mood swings from overly “high” and/or irritable to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods of…
Indiana Business Magazine - Taking stock: Indiana stocks worth watching in 2008.(INVESTMENTS)(Company overview)
December 10th, 2008Background: First-generation antipsychotics have been the treatment of choice for acute mania with or without psychosis. However, because these agents may cause severe side effects and may worsen depressive symptoms in patients with bipolar disorder, they have limited use in these patients. Second-generation antipsychotics developed over the past few years ha…
Schizophrenia Drug Face-Off: No Clear Winner
December 9th, 2008 Sept. 19, 2005 — Mental health experts say it wasn’t a horse race. That explains why there’s no clear winner from a major government study pitting a new generation of schizophrenia drugs against one another.
Zyprexa was the most effective of the drugs. But its greater number of side effects dims its first-place finish.
Meanwhile, a come-from-behind, second-place finish by Tri…


