COLIN TAUFER
Big Pharma’s Evil Playbook
PsychSearch Big Pharma’s Evil Playbook Colin Taufer On July 10, 2010, Stewart Dolin, a happy, funny, loving, wealthy, dedicated husband and father, started taking Paxil, as prescribed by his psychiatrist. Six days later, in the middle of the afternoon, he leapt off a subway platform and into the path of an approaching train. How do the biggest drug pushers poison the world for profit and get away with murder? Just ask GlaxoSmithKline, one of the kingpins in the pill-pushing cartel known as Big Pharma. GSK has perfected the playbook of turning drugs they know to be deadly and dangerous into [...]
Drugging Children for Conformity
PsychSearch Drugging Children for Conformity Colin Taufer Throughout its long history, Ritalin has been a drug in search of a “disorder”. Its manufacturer Ciba (now Novartis) has spent millions on advertising and “doctor education” trying to find and create a profitable “disease” for its drug. In the mid-1950’s Ritalin was advertised as a way to boost spirits and to make patients more cooperative and manageable. Later, in the same decade, Ciba tried another approach and marketed Ritalin as a “safe, effective geriatric supplement”. In the 1960’s promotional focus again shifted and it touted itself as a way to “restore [...]
CONSUMER PROTECTION?
PsychSearch CONSUMER PROTECTION? Colin Taufer Recently, it was reported by the Consumer Product Safety Commission that someone suffered a knee injury after sitting on a brand of bench that collapsed. Six others reported this same bench collapsing but reported no injuries. Consequently, the CPSC told all consumers to stop using these particular benches and return them to their point of purchase for a full refund. Similarly, the CPSC ordered all consumers to stop using, and return for refunds a particular brand of glass dresser knob. The reason? They received two reports of lacerations from broken glass knobs. About 363,000 knobs [...]
“MODERN” PSYCHOSURGERY
PsychSearch “MODERN” PSYCHOSURGERY Colin Taufer In 1949, Antonio Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine. His award-winning contribution to mankind? “His discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses. A leucotomy is more commonly known as a lobotomy, the neurosurgical procedure consisting of cutting or scraping away the connective tissue to and from the brain’s prefrontal cortex in the name of mental health. Or, in the words of psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, it’s simply the disabling of the brain. The “ice pick lobotomy” was one of the most common psychiatric “therapies” of the late 1940’s [...]
21st Century Mental Asylums
PsychSearch Mental Asylums of the 21st Century: Prisons and Jails By Colin Taufer The three largest mental institutions in America are the Los Angeles County Jail, Rikers Island Correctional Institution in New York City and Cook County Jail in Chicago, the latter being the largest in the United States. This fact may come as a surprise to many. But to the men and women who work on the front lines of law enforcement and mental health care, this is the stark reality of the world they live in. They see first-hand the cycle of human destruction psychiatrists have created: [...]
The NFL, Shock Treatment and Brain Damage
PsychSearch ECT and CTE - The NFL, Shock Treatment and Brain Damage By Colin Taufer "Your brain is safer in a car accident than in the hands of a psychiatrist." On September 30, 2014, researchers with Boston University announced that in autopsies of 79 brains of former NFL players, 76 had tested positive for CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, “the signature disease of football”. (Encephalopathy is defined as disease, damage or malfunction of the brain.) CTE is a degenerative disease found in people who have had a severe or repeated blows to the head, concussions. According to the Center [...]
You Don’t Have to Pick Your Poison
PsychSearch You Don’t Have to Pick Your Poison Colin Taufer His final days were spent in a bare jail cell alone — no bed, no mattress, no bench, no sink. His room constantly illuminated by overhead lights, and he barely slept, less than 30 minutes over a two-day period. He didn’t eat. His toilet was a grate on the floor. Eight days after being admitted and forty pounds lighter, he died covered in his own waste. Marc Moreno was eighteen-years old. He had a history of mental illness. How does it happen that a teen going through the most desperate [...]
The “Church” of the Holy Label
PsychSearch The “Church” of the Holy Label Colin Taufer Those that knew her found Candace Downing to be a very bright little girl and an overachiever, the youngest in a loving family. When she was in sixth grade, her psychiatrist, after a very brief evaluation, decided the anxieties she was experiencing during school tests would require a prescription for the antidepressant Zoloft. Her prescription was increased before she started the seventh grade. Not long after, twelve year old Candace hung herself from her four-poster bed — another life destroyed by psychiatric labeling. According to the bible of psychiatry, the DSM [...]
Psychiatric diagnosis from afar
PsychSearch Psychiatric Diagnosis from Afar Colin Taufer When psychiatrists make a claim in which they cite their “ethical responsibility” as justification for doing so, it is both absurd and laughable. Psychiatrists cannot and should not be trusted. Such was the case in April of this year when a group of psychiatrists proclaimed, "We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness." Visit the homepage of PsychSearch any day of the week and you will find a fresh assortment of mugshots of psychiatrists in trouble with the law for sex crimes, drug abuse, or fraud [...]
Coercion and Profits by Confusion
PsychSearch Coercion and Profits by Confusion Colin Taufer Open any magazine and chances are you will find its pages filled with ads from Big Pharma. This is because Big Pharma is far and away the biggest spender when it comes to magazine ads. In fact, it spends nearly double that of the number two magazine advertiser, retail and online apparel. In 2015 Big Pharma’s spending on such ads peaked at more than $1.5 billion, a 19% jump over the previous year. Such advertising is known as Direct to Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising. Not only do we see it in magazine ads, [...]