Not only is Prozac widely prescribed to senior citizens, and sometimes prescribed for pets, but peppermint-flavored Prozac for juniors is about to debut. Dr. Keith Hoeller criticizes the use of psychiatric drugs in children . New York plans to sell psychiatric hospital property Thirty years after New York state began dismantling its sprawling network of psychiatric hospitals, once the largest in the nation, the Pataki administration plans to sell off all but a fraction of the unused buildings and grounds at 20 centers for the mentally ill and the retarded. This article questions the validity of the biological model of mental illness. Science has been distorted in the service of racism.
Scientific racism is a fact.
It exists in the lives of African Americans on a daily basis. FDA considering Prozac for children Dr. Paul Riley has prescribed Prozac to chronically depressed and obsessive-compulsive kids almost since it appeared on the market in 1988. For the first time in a half century, new Federal regulations allow investigators to enroll patients in some medical research without their consent. A man who stabbed three psychiatric nurses, one almost fatally, at his home three years ago has lost his Supreme Court action challenging the legislation under which he was detained in a psychiatric hospital. State task force says Maine does not need outpatient commitment law People with mental illness should not be forced to take prescribed psychiatric medications or else face hospitalization, according to a task force established by the Legislature.