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‘The Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated’: As Is the Correlation of Antidepressants With Suicide

  “The Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated.” ~ Mark Twain You can always count on Mark Twain for a response, even in the most awkward of circumstances. In 1897, Mark Twain failed to return to New York City… Continue Reading

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Atypical Attitudes: How The Atypicals Took the Fall in Dementia Patients–The Other Meds Catch Up

In 2008, the FDA put out the following: “For Immediate Release: FDA Requests Boxed Warnings on Older Class of Antipsychotic Drugs.” It said: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today exercised its new authority . . .to require manufacturers of… Continue Reading

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Atypical Attitudes: How The Atypicals Took the Fall in Dementia Patients–The Beginning of Trouble

It was indisputably bad news for the makers of the new, second-generation (or atypical) antipsychotics–a literal black mark on their name. It was April, 2005, and the FDA issued an advisory that would strike fear into the hearts of any elderly… Continue Reading