Author name: Robert Carter

Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us You Can’t Make Sense of Arguments for More ECT      By Robert Carter/April 30, 2025      When the basic premises of a subject are whacky, it doesn’t take long to find oneself swimming in a  surreal sea of topsy-turvy values, priorities, and morality.      The Penn State College of Medicine

Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us No Chemical Imbalance? Maybe No Physical Cause At All to Mental “Disorders”      By Robert Carter/April 22, 2025      For decades researchers have found no physical evidence of any chemical imbalance in the brain underlying any mental disorder, no matter how hard they looked. Yes, Big Pharma has been promoting that

Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us What if This Is the Real Reason ECT appears to “Work”?      By Robert Carter/April 13, 2025      Since the earliest days of ECT, there have only been eleven studies to measure the effect of ECT against a placebo group on its target audience, the depressed. Amazingly, the most recent of those studies

Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us “First, Do No Harm” …Unless You’re a Psychiatrist Making a Hundred Dollars a Minute      By Robert Carter/April 7, 2025      About ten years ago the American Medical Association Journal of Medicine published an article entitled “The Ethics of Electroconvulsive Therapy.” It is still pertinent. There is no new information about the effectiveness

Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us How to Evaluate ECT? Let’s Try Common Sense      By Robert Carter/March 22, 2025      There are many studies that have been done over the years about ECT. Some have been used to argue in favor of its use while others have been used to show it is only a destructive procedure. Much

Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog ECT’s Informed Consent? “No Pain, No Gain” Withdrawing from Paxil Far Worse than Withdrawing from Heroin “Side Effect” One More Bogus Big Pharma Marketing Ploy How Big Pharma Keeps Their ADHD Pipeline Overflowing “Conscience Laws” Too Often Defeated by Reverse Discrimination FDA’s Collusion with Big Pharma over Prozac Harms America’s Children Better Never than Late State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia”      By Robert Carter/March 17, 2025      The term “schizophrenia” (literally, split mind) was first coined in 1908 by the Swiss racist psychiatrist, Paul Eugen Bleuler. He described what he claimed were the specific symptoms of what in the nineteenth century had been known simply as