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Lilly Finally Admitting “ZyprexaKills”?

Sorry, dearest readers, that we’ve been delinquent here at CMM lately getting posts up… We’re trying to get back on the job after binge-working on the aforementioned feature article about the rights of seniors in BC care homes. But we couldn’t let you miss today’s New York Times coverage of the latest on the lawsuit [...]

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In Case You Thought Our Elderly Weren’t Already Drugged Enough…

A recent Globe and Mail article is a dazzling example of how facts and logic are routinely twisted around to make room for more drugs. Evidently oblivious to the recent raft of medical journal studies showing a rampant over-diagnosing and over-drugging of seniors with psychotropics in long term care facilities, journalist Andre Picard announces that [...]

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Toronto Psych Sued — But Where the Murder Charges?

The law firm of Rochon Genova LLP has launched a class action suit against Toronto psychiatrist Dr. Eddie Kingstone, on behalf of patients who were “negligently” drugged by him in ways that, they say, “he knew or ought to have known would lead to drug dependency and addiction”. The preceding Ontario College of Physicians and [...]

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