Category: Antipsychotic Drugs

Doctors Have Doubled Antipsychotic Prescriptions to Children and Youth: Study

January 11, 2023
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Despite the lack of evidence of the safety of antipsychotics in children, who are smaller in size and still rapidly developing, the number of prescriptions to English youth has doubled between 2000 to 2019, a study suggests. The researchers from the University of Manchester examined over seven million children and adolescents aged three to 18. They discovered…

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One-Size-Fits-All Dangerous Drugs Must Give Way to Personalized Medicine

December 5, 2022
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Although people have the legal right to say no to taking pharmaceutical drugs, caregivers of mentally ill patients can go to court to force them to take medication. Whether this is ethically warranted or not is the subject of a new investigation, available as a preprint, by two doctors: Gail Tasch, a psychiatrist based in…

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HKU Study: Antipsychotic Drugs Increase the Risk of Breast Cancer by Around 30 Percent

September 17, 2022
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A research team from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong has published a study estimating that the use of antipsychotic drugs may increase the risk of breast cancer by around 30 percent. The risk is linked to the prolactin-raising properties of some of these drugs. The results of the study were…

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CSIRO Collaborating With Australian Pharma to Develop Medicinal Psychedelics

May 18, 2022
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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has received a license to work with local Australian biomedical companies to “extract, synthesise, improve and then develop manufacturing processes” for up to 15 different psychedelic compounds. The organisation will first be collaborating with Melbourne Natural MedTech which is “working to develop psychedelic treatments for several unmet…

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