These news reports are from over five years ago...WHY is the risk still minimized or denied by psychiatrists and mental health professionals? Why was it necessary to lie at all? There is no 'chemical imbalance' of serotonin or any other neurotransmitter that has ever been identified that causes depression or any other psychiatric diagnosis---people are told there is an imbalance to get them to take the drugs as prescribed; but it is not based on any facts, it is a ploy to gain compliance.
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Why RxISK.org?
Drug side effects are now a leading cause of death, disability, and illness. Experts estimate that only 1–10% of “serious” adverse events are ever reported. Not to mention the millions of “medically mild” adverse drug events that occur each year — ones that compromise a person’s concentration, functioning, judgment, and ability to care. RxISK.org has been designed to helps patients, doctors, and pharmacists research prescription drugs and their side effects. It also provides a means to easily report these side effects to assist in individual patient care and to help other patients by identifying problems and possible solutions earlier than is currently happening.
RxISK.org is the first free website (not sponsored by big pharma or advertising) to provide this kind of support to patients, doctors, and pharmacists.
Why Should You Report?
No one knows drug side effects like the person who is taking a pill. Yet your voice is increasingly being silenced. RxISK.org provides a megaphone to you, your doctors, and your pharmacist to change the way we see drug safety.
You and your doctor may have been told there is no evidence linking the treatment you are on to the problems you are experiencing. This is because most of the data on prescription drugs is owned by the multinational pharmaceutical companies who run almost all clinical drug trials (60% of which are never reported). They simply are not sharing data that may affect their bottom lines.
There is a gap in the data that only patients, doctors, and pharmacists can fill.
Help yourself while helping others
RxISK.org helps users research drug side effects, but you can do so much more by reporting them — helping to make medicines safer for all of us.
Patients reporting their side effects will get a free RxISK Report to take to their doctor or pharmacist for a fuller discussion of their treatment.
RxISK.org cuts through the bureaucratic barriers to reporting side effects. We provide a simple process for doctors and pharmacists to add to your report, ensuring this data gets to the appropriate country regulatory authorities through RxISK.org. We do all the work.
Through this reporting process you will be helping others, by adding your anonymized experience to the data on prescription drugs.
Free Resources – Unavailable Anywhere Else
RxISK.org gives patients, doctors, and pharmacists free data and tools that are unavailable anywhere else.
RxISK Report™
Our secure reporting process allows you to identify which drugs you are taking and comment on their effects on your health and life.
- The resulting RxISK Report™ is a customized printout that provides you with, among other things, your RxISK Score™ indicating how likely it is that you are experiencing a drug side effect. You can then take this report to your doctor or pharmacist to support and inform your conversation about whether you are experiencing a drug side effect.
- Your doctor can also add information to your RxISK Report™ to help you and others experiencing the same problems.
See what’s happening with other people
We make the current data from FDA accessible and free through easy-to-understand visuals and tables. As drug side effect reports come into RxISK.org from around the world, this anonymized data will be added “real time” to our database. The RxISK.org data will be much more detailed and relevant to the conversations between patients, doctors, and pharmacists on drug side effects.
- Warnings and interactions, side effects, tag clouds, heat maps, and interactive graphs help you research prescription drugs and reported side effects — all for free.
- Interaction checker allows you to enter any drugs you are using to review interactions between prescription drugs and food, and review conditions and side effects.
- FDA Medwatch data is available on “top 10” reported drugs for side effects.
Transparency
Transparency is important to us.
To provide the information and services to you on RxISK.org, free of charge, and to remain independent of advertising or sponsorship, our funding model is that we will sell subscriptions to the anonymized, aggregated data we collect to anyone who wants it. This may include major players in healthcare, such as governments, health insurers, and pharmaceutical companies. We will also provide it, free of charge, to the regulatory authorities in your jurisdiction. This critical data, which is not currently being collected or reported, will improve drug safety and help lower healthcare costs.
We will not sell client lists, or personal details. We will not enter into contracts or arrangements that could compromise the independence of the data we collect.
We have set up a community advisory board of people who have relatives injured by adverse events, health care activists, and independent scientists to monitor our business interactions.
See our Privacy Policy. If you want to learn more, please contact us at info@RxISK.org.
Read my recent report on the 'chemical imbalance' myth and the FDA's complicity in burying the data about suicide risks and failing to inform the public Stating Depression is due to a 'chemical imbalance is no 'metaphor'
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