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From FDA to GSK: The Dangerous Partnership between Government and Big Pharma

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatry, Glaxosmithkline, Daniel Troy, Fda, Health, Gsk, Big Pharma, Drug Regulators, Regulation, Peter Breggin, Paxil, Suicide, Adverse Reactions, Antidepressants, Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal, Side Effects, Politics News
Dr. Peter Breggin

The FDA is not so much a watchdog agency as an active member of the psychopharmaceutical complex working on behalf on the drug industry.

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Mortgage Crisis Suicide? Wife and Mother on Verge of Losing Home Kills Herself

Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Suicide, Housing Crisis, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Economy, Economic Anxiety, Psychology, Anxiety, Economic Instability, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

Police in Taunton, Mass., report today that Carlene Balderrama, 53 shot herself to death Tuesday afternoon -- 90 minutes before her foreclosed home was scheduled to be sold at auction.

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Mental Recession: Like Manna From Heaven

Liz Spikol | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Seasonal Depression, Big Pharma, Psychiatry, Depression, Phil Gramm, Gramm Recession Is Mental, Light Therapy, Suicide, Epilepsy, Psychology, Spikol, Illness, Recession, Controversial Remarks, Fda, Health, Electroshock Therapy, Gramm Whiner, Denials, John McCain and Phil Gramm, Philadelphia, Mental, Phil Gramm Nation of Whiners, Headline News, Mental Recession, John McCain, Sad, Politics News
Liz Spikol

As a mental health journalist and someone who suffers with bipolar disorder, if there's one thing I know, it's how to solve a "mental" crisis.

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Is Suicide Preventable?

Liz Spikol | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Psychiatry, New York Times Magazine, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, Firearms, Health, Suicide, Psychology, Liz Spikol, Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempts, Guns, Living News
Liz Spikol

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There's A Lot Of Knock, Knock, Knockin' At Depressions Door

Stacie Krajchir | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Survivor, Ruslana Korshunova, Suicide, Independance Day, Death, The Inner Life, Guinness Beer, Emotional Balance, Sepression, Living News
Stacie Krajchir

Numbers, dates, times, anniversaries. These are all enemies to those who have walked though suicide, yet it is also the markers of honor and memory.

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Suicide And Girls

Mona Ackerman | Posted 07.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Suicide, The Balanced Life, Suicide Rates Girls, Suicides, Health, Living News
Mona Ackerman

Q: My niece just committed suicide. She is the 20-year-old daughter of my older sister. Needless to say, my sister is devastated and doesn't unders...

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Suicides Half Of Gun Deaths In US

AP | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guns, Gun Control, Suicide, Suicides, Suicide Deaths in Us, Firearm Deaths, Suicide Risks, Shooting Deaths, Politics News

The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens' ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But re...

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Was Gay Soldier Murdered in Afghanistan?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Suicide, Soldiers, Afghanistan, Warwire, Vets, Iraq War, War, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

The military has finally, after nine months, announced the results of its probe into the death by gunshot of a gay soldier in Afghanistan.

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Leaders Who Care (Too Much)

Ray Kimball | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Suicide, Leadership, Army, War on Terror, Non-Commissioned Officers, US Military, Mental Health, Military, Iraq, Politics News
Ray Kimball

Too often, leaders (both officer and NCO) forget that they need "maintenance" just as much as the complex machines that power their fighting skills. Is this an attempt to deny one's own humanity?

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Money: What Do Rich People Do When They No Longer Have It?

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Trainers, Lifestyle, Nannies, Money, Economy, Pre-Nup, Maid, Suicide, Bill Gates, Beverly Hills, Rich, Oil Business, Gatekeepers, Wealth, Mcmansions, Mansions, Warren Buffett, Houston, Real Estate, Wildcatters, Interior Decorators, Bel-Air, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

Without all that money and newly leased Mercedes, people did not know how to define themselves anymore. Unless, that is, they were actually real people inside them to begin with.

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The FDA Wants to Stop You from Protecting Yourself Against Drug Companies

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Legal Rights, Drug Company Fraud, Eli Lilly, Fda, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide, Prozac, Paxil, Gsk, Peter Breggin, Health, Side Effects, Politics News
Dr. Peter Breggin

Suing a drug company is your only way as an individual to protect yourself against malfeasance. It should be a right under the law, but the FDA and the drug companies are on the verge of taking it away.

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Samuel Israel III, Convicted Hedge Fund Manager, Still Missing

New York Post | Perry Chiaramonte, Kaja Whitehouse and Dan Mangan | Posted 06.19.2008 | Business

Read More: White Collar Crime, Hedge Fund Managers, Suicide, Convicted Trader, Samuel Israel III, Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Suicide, Business News

June 11, 2008 -- A hedge-fund manager due to begin a 20-year prison stint for a $450 million fraud abandoned his SUV on a Hudson River bridge with "Su...

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Suicide?: Disgraced Hedge Fund Trader Samuel Israel III Missing

AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Hedge Fund Traders, White Collar Crime, Hedge Funds, Bayou Hedge Fund, Suicide, Convicted Trader, Samuel Israel III, Business News

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A car abandoned on a bridge with the phrase "Suicide is Painless" scrawled in the dust on its hood is registered to a hedge...

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Sandbags and Machine Guns At Wal-Mart

Al Norman | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Peoria Lawsuit, Mentally Ill, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Lee Scott & Machine Guns, Wal-Mart Gun Sales, Suicide, Wal-Mart, Media News
Al Norman

Wal-Mart took another bullet this week -- fired from its own gun.

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Army Suicides Increase Again

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Army, Suicide, Army Suicides, Military Suicides, Army Suicides Increase, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Army soldiers committed suicide in 2007 at the highest rate on record, and the toll is climbing ever higher this year as long war d...

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