The Politicization of Medicine

An eye-opening result of the COVID pandemic has been the politicization of medicine, evidenced by multiple court judgments.  The Hippocratic Oath has nothing to do with political parties.  Somehow, issues of mask mandates, vaccine mandates and use of certain medications were taken out of the hands of fact-based science and guidance of clinical practitioners and…

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Part II Do Psychotropic Medications Cause More Harm than Good?

Part II Do Psychotropic Medications Cause More Harm than Good?

What Do Studies on Psychotropic Medications Show? With every research publication, there is some level of unavoidable inherent bias.  You may read one source in complete support of an intervention and another in complete opposition.  Most articles rely on information and conclusions read by the author without the author’s further investigation or in-depth analysis into…

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Are Psychotropic (Psychiatric) Medications Doing More Harm than Good?

All psychotropic medications alter a person’s mental state.  The origin of the word ‘tropic’ comes from Greek meaning “a turning.”  Psychotropic quite literally means to turn the mind.  Psychotropic drugs such as antidepressants may benefit some people but determining who they may benefit, who they may harm, and why, are remaining questions. For some people…

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