Many drugs, to include over-the-counter drugs, can have adverse effects that aren’t always communicated. Make sure to discuss possible adverse effects with your doctor. This includes adverse effects related to bleeding when taking SSRIs and NSAIDs.

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The New York Times poses interesting questions about generic drugs. For more info, click here.

It’s great to see this akathisia info and helpful tips on how to improve emotional wellness. For more info, click here.

The Food and Drug Administration has announced the labels for several sleep drugs must now list additional adverse effects to include risky behaviors such as sleepwalking and sleep driving, that can lead to injury and even death.

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Dr. Barnhorst’s interesting opinion piece for the New York Times can spark important conversations.

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Let’s make this year’s fundraising gala the biggest ever and enjoy the sites in the “windy city.”

A British report finds 56% of people who try to come off drugs marketed as antidepressants suffer withdrawal effects, and 46% of those having withdrawal effects describe them as severe. Withdrawal effects include suicidality, dizziness and agitation, all of which can also be signs of withdrawal akathisia. To learn more about withdrawal akathisia, take Akathisia 101 at MISSD.LearnUpon.com

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Dolin’s attorneys are asking the high court to toss out the decision of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals which overturned the Chicago jury’s verdict that determined Paxil maker, GSK, was liable for Stewart Dolin’s suffering and death.

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The New Yorker has an informative article regarding the adverse withdrawal effects many consumers experience when trying to discontinue psych drugs. MISSD is pleased to see this important topic gaining public attention.

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“I kept having panic attacks, which I had never had before…I know with perfect certainty that this was solely because of Tamiflu,” said actress Erin Foster. “If my doctor had warned me this was a potential side effect I would have known what was happening. And there are teenagers who actually did kill themselves on it.”

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