I keep making the mistake of calling the current trial in Texas The TMAP Trial. That’s not correct and I usually catch the error before I click Publish. I know why I do that. It’s a wish. I want it to be The TMAP Trial because there was so much more craziness in TMAP than […]
Jury chosen in Texas suit against J&J over drug Austin Statesman January 9, 2012 Texas is seeking more than $1 billion in damages in a lawsuit that accuses Johnson & Johnson of overstating the safety of an anti-psychotic drug and influencing its use in the state’s Medicaid program. A jury was chosen Monday in an […]
America Is Over Diagnosed and Over Medicated by Allen Frances 01/09/2012 The history of medicine has its glorious moments, but is also littered with false theories, blind allies, and harmful treatments. The emergence of invasive therapies in ancient Greece inspired Hippocrates to make ‘First, Do No Harm’ the foundational injunction of western medicine. Psychiatric medicines […]
J&J to Oppose Texas in $1 Billion Trial Over Risperdal Marketing Practices Bloomberg By Margaret Cronin Fisk, David Voreacos and Jef Feeley Jan 9, 2012< Johnson & Johnson, which has lost judgments of almost $660 million over the marketing of its antipsychotic drug Risperdal, goes to trial today facing a demand by Texas for damages […]
State attorney general sued drug company Abbott: state paid excessively to Johnson & Johnson for Risperdal Austin Statesman By Tim Eaton Jan.8, 2012 Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is pitted against one of the largest multinational pharmaceutical companies in a trial starting this week that could bring the state more than $1 billion one of […]
I’d like to return to the neo-Kraepelinian creed [The Dictionary of Disorder] that drove the DSM-III revision: The Tenets of the neo-Kraepelinian approach: 1. Psychiatry is a branch of medicine. 2. Psychiatry should utilize modern scientific methodologies and base its practice on scientific knowledge. 3. Psychiatry treats people who are sick and who require treatment. […]
Psychosis Risk Strikes Out Yet Again New Study Shows It Doesn’t Predict Psychosis Psychology Today: DSM5 in Distress by Allen J. Frances, M.D. January 5, 2012 DSM 5 continues to propose inclusion of a ill conceived and ill named new disorder variously labeled ‘psychosis risk’ or ‘attenuated psychotic symptoms’. It is long past time for […]
I just read a piece by Dr. Ronald Pies [Why Psychiatry Needs to Scrap the DSM System: An Immodest Proposal], a regular contributer to the Psychiatric Times. It’s a very thoughtful piece of writing about psychiatric reality and the DSM-anything: …In truth, the entire premise underlying the DSMs is severely flawed—and many psychiatrists routinely ignore […]
So I asked myself, "Why are you heading for Austin Texas next week to sit in the Gallery of a courthouse to watch a trial for a week that you’re not even involved in?" I think I know the answer, but I need to back up and run at explaining it. I retired at the […]