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Having a condition where the mouth doesn’t produce enough saliva can develop following radiation treat­ments and after taking certain medications. While this is not rampant in society, it would be good to know that Acupuncture offers help to those who suffer from it should the condition become something you or someone you know develops.
Basically, dry [...]

Over the past 50 years, there has been an astonishing increase in severe mental illness in the United States. The percentage of Americans disabled by mental illness has increased fivefold since 1955, when Thorazine-remembered today as psychiatry’s first “wonder” drug-was introduced into the market. The number of Americans disabled by mental ill­ness has nearly doubled [...]

Prompted by psychiatrists with their own vested interests in pharmaceutical sales, the media has spun the blame for the rise in the suicide rate for children on the “black box” warning labels placed on antidepressants. This comes from a study that was conducted by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)—one of the components of the [...]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked makers of all antidepressant medications to update existing labels to include warnings about increased risks of suicidal thinking and behavior, known as suicidality,in young adults ages 18 to 24 during initial treatment (generally the first one to two months).
The proposed labeling update follows similar labeling changes made [...]

Pharmaceutical companies are busy making huge donations to dozens of official-sounding mental health organizations that promote pseudo-scientific “mental health programs” to push even more customers onto their drugs.
Signs of Suicide, a program developed by the non-profit group Screening for Mental Health, Inc., is just one of many of these kinds of organizations, and possibly the [...]