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NRx Pharmaceuticals Applies for FDA National Priority Voucher for Intravenous Ketamine (NRX-100)

Psychiatric Times

SHOW MORE NRx Pharmaceuticals advances NRX-100, a preservative-free ketamine, through a fast-tracked FDA review for treating suicidal depression and PTSD. Sanom/Adobestock BREAKING NEWS A new formulation of ketamine is progressing through a novel US Food and Drug Administration review pathway, announced NRx Pharmaceuticals.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

Mad in America

I don’t think there’s enough actual oversight, whether civilian or governmental, of the mental health system, and it does a ton of harm.” In a 2005 paper , Gottstein wrote that the “involuntary mental illness system operates largely illegally.” Russell’s request was again denied.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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Something Broken: My Mother’s Story

Mad in America

For most of the twenty-five months following my birth, she had been incapable of sleeping or maintaining a daily routine. Every unhappy, disrespectful, argumentative, disruptive, independent, strong-willed, or even docile daughter might be labelled crazy and committed to a mental hospital briefly or forever. Two years later, U.S.