The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and VideosA Powerful New Drug Is Creating a ‘Withdrawal Crisis’ in Philadelphia
parasect3261 at KillBaitTrial Set for Man After Children Fall Ill from Allegedly Drugged Sweets at Summer Camp
A trial date has been set for 76-year-old Jon Ruben, who faces charges after several children fell ill from sweets that were allegedly laced with sedatives at a summer camp in Leicestershire. Ruben is charged with three counts of wilful ill treatment of a child, after eight boys, aged 8 to 11, and o... [More info]
Maggie MaybeYeah maybe society shouldn’t push psych meds on people who are having trouble existing in this capitalist hellscape because of systematic problems.
Why should people be forced to take psychiatric medication just so they can more calmly except the systematic problems? Especially if they’re going to get #ALS from them? (And listen I am pro medication, Adderall changed my life. But I remember being prescribed SSRI’s in the early 2000s because I was having trouble affording life after the price gouging that never went down after 9/11. Prozac wouldn’t make my previously $400 now $700 rent more affordable.)
“Question Is there an association between prescribed use of common psychiatric medications and the risk and progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)?
Findings In this case-control study including nearly 9000 individuals, prescribed use of #anxiolytics, #hypnotics and #sedatives, or #antidepressants was associated with a 34%, 21%, and 26% higher future risk of ALS. Prediagnostic use of such medications was also associated with poor prognosis after ALS diagnosis.
Meaning These findings suggest a potential link between psychiatric medications, or their indications (ie, psychiatric disorders), and the risk and progression of ALS.”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2834877
(Edited to fix “health scape” (hellscape)
SherBeareth👀 Trump's White House Was 'Awash in #Speed' -- and #Xanax
Under #Trump, the #WhiteHouse #Medical Unit was “like the Wild West,” and #staffers had easy access to powerful #stimulants and #sedatives, sources tell Rolling Stone.
If you ever looked at the actions of the Trump White House and wondered, 'Are they on #drugs -- the answer was, in some cases, yes.
Absolutely, yes.
