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Big Pharma: Mental Screening Programs Sell More Drugs


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 [...]

Antidepressant Poses Risk to Unborn Baby


A new study conducted by the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine in collaboration with Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center found that antidepressant drugs taken by a mother during pregnancy can put the unborn and newborn child at considerable risk.
According to the 8 year study, women who take commonly available types of [...]