by Harper West | Oct 31, 2017 | Psychoactive Medication
Science journalist Robert Whitaker has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science, including the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and a National Association for Science Writers’ Award for best magazine article. In 1998, he co-wrote a series...
by Harper West | Jul 11, 2017 | Psychoactive Medication
Valium, Ativan, Klonopin, Xanax, Ambien, and Lunesta. Common names, but — beware! Take these drugs at your own risk. These are just some of the names of benzodiazepines or benzos, a class of psychiatric drugs that is highly addictive. There are many harms and...
by Harper West | Nov 2, 2015 | Depression, Emotions, Psychoactive Medication, Shame
Blogger Phillip Hickey, PhD, has another great Mad in America post debunking the “chemical imbalance” theory of depression based on an article on Florida State University’s DigiNole Commons. The article is a very easy read and I recommend it highly...
by Harper West | Jun 6, 2015 | Psychoactive Medication
It appears that when James Holmes shot up that movie theater in Colorado he may have done so partly because he felt hopeless that his mental health would ever improve. Apparently, he wrote in his journal that he had been told he had a “broken brain”. He had been given...
by Harper West | Mar 31, 2015 | Psychoactive Medication
Was it depression or antidepressants that caused Andreas Lubitz to crash the Germanwings plane? Antidepressant medications were found in Lubitz’s apartment, although there is no evidence he was taking them. Rather than blaming the depression, some writers are...
