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Despite Safety Risks, Prescribers Receive Little Guidance of Monitoring Antipsychotic Clozapine

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They conducted a review of current guidelines that met the criteria of being peer-reviewed guidelines published after 2004 in English, Dutch, or French, that were centered on monitoring major adverse effects and included evidence-based recommendations.

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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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In 2004, in response to Kim Witczak and other surviving families, the FDA began requiring SSRI drugmakers to add a Box Warning on the packaging of all SSRI antidepressants related to suicide risk. Nearly half said they believed they were trapped on the antidepressant drugs they were prescribed.

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Could I Have an Eating Disorder?

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Sources 1 Kilpela, L.S., Hooper, S.C., Straud, C.L., Marshall, V.B., Verzijl, C.L., Stewart, T.M., Loera, T.T., Becker, C.B. 2023) The longitudinal associations of body dissatisfaction with health and wellness behaviors in midlife and older women. Int J Environ Res Public Health. link] 2 Berrettini W. The genetics of eating disorders.

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Investigators Who Blew the Whistle On STAR*D Fraud Call for Retraction of Five AJP Articles

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8 RIAT Investigators’ Reply: In 2004, JAMA published an article on completed suicides and severe suicide ideation/attempts in 159,810 depressed patients prescribed an antidepressant. 20 The JAMA 2004 article was highly-cited, and therefore should have been well-known in 2006 by the STAR*D PIs.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

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quoted by Spiegel, 2004) Professor Donald Klein, another leading figure in the development of the DSM-3, put it like this: we were forced to rely on clinical consensus, which, admittedly, is a very poor way to do things We thrashed it out, basically. 2004, December 26). Bloomsbury Press. The Lancet , 387(10034), 2339. The New Yorker.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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A 2004 study , “Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Risk of Depressive Disorders in Adulthood,” reported that exposure to such traumatic experiences is “associated with increased risk of depressive disorders up to decades after their occurrence”; and that childhood emotional abuse increased risk 2.7 fold for lifetime depressive disorders.

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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The 2004 national South Africa Stress and Health study , the first large-scale research project of its kind in the country, found the lifetime prevalence of any DSM mental health diagnosis to be 30.3%. It was also conducted in English, only one of South Africas 12 languages.