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May 15, 2026
RFK Jr. is going to war against SSRIs. Doctors and patients are caught in the middle.
Thursday, May 14, 2026 The Washington Post published an article on SSRI medication withdrawal receiving more political attention: “For years, the issue lingered at the margins — on patient forums and in a handful of studies. It gained broader attention in early…
Read More →December 16, 2021
Amitriptyline Withdrawal
Here is an interesting article on Amitriptyline withdrawal that I find helpful. I am helping a patient lower this medication and am surprised at how severe the withdrawal symptoms can be. The patient stopped taking Amitriptyline 5 mg abruptly, along with diazepam…
Read More →February 12, 2020
Being obsessed with being productive … is unproductive by Steven Johnson
Here’s a helpful article by Steven Johnson about productivity that gives people permission to relax. The sympathetic nervous system, which creates the “fight or flight” response is almost always too active while the parasympathetic nervous system is below normal. This imbalance ultimately…
Read More →December 13, 2018
Antipsychotic Use in Young People Tied to 80% Increased Risk of Death
Publish date: December 12, 2018 By Steve Cimino Vitals View on the News RESULTS HEIGHTEN ‘ALREADY INCREASED CAUTION’ FROM JAMA PSYCHIATRY Children and young people who received antipsychotic doses higher than 50-mg chlorpromazine equivalents had an 80% increased risk of death at follow-up, compared…
Read More →December 8, 2018
What These Medical Journals Don’t Reveal: Top Doctors’ Ties to Industry
Conflict of Interest in Medical Research and Journal Articles Here is a recent article in the New York Times on the conflict of interest between researchers and their published findings: their failure to be transparent about receiving substantial funding from pharmaceutical companies.…
Read More →November 2, 2017
Alternative Medical Information on Vaccines
Thought I would share a few interesting articles on vaccines as we approach winter and the pressure to choose whether to receive the flu vaccine. Vaccine Adjuvants and Excipients What Doctors Don’t Tell You: Scientists Discover Why the Annual Flu Jab Doesn’t…
Read More →March 4, 2016
A Psychiatrist’s Personal Opinions of Donald Trump
As I listen to Mitt Romney and the Republican party speak up against Donald Trump today (Transcript of Mitt Romney’s Speech), I feel compelled by civil duty to express my personal opinions on Donald Trump’s rise in politics. It has been an interesting,…
Read More →January 13, 2016
Orthomolecular News: No deaths from nutritional supplements
I like this article that presents the safety on nutritional supplements to the public, to correct any misunderstanding of the supposed dangers of nutritional supplementation. Alice W. Lee, MD, ABIHM Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 12, 2016 No Deaths from Supplements. No…
Read More →October 19, 2015
The New York Times: Talk Therapy Eases Symptoms of Schizophrenia
In the New York Times, dated October 20, 2015, an article on the benefits of talk therapy in recovery from schizophrenia. This is a government funded study, and therefore, with less bias from pharmaceutical agencies, needing to promote their medications as the…
Read More →February 5, 2013
NY Times: Drowned in a Stream of Prescriptions, Abuse of Medications
Please see this article in the New York Times for the story of a young man who was prescribed stimulants by psychiatrists, despite his parents’ repeated warnings of their son’s abuse of the medication and repeated psychotic symptoms, until the patient committed…
Read More →June 19, 2012
Food as Medicine: Applying an Old Adage in a New Way
As Mark Hyman succinctly stated in his concluding statement at the Food As Medicine conference at Bethesda, Maryland (June, 2012), “It’s not ‘Food As Medicine.’ It’s ‘Food Is Medicine’.” As a physician, I was taught to rely on prescription, pharmaceutical medications. I made…
Read More →April 18, 2012
The Simple Idea That Is Transforming Health Care (WSJ article, April 18, 2012))
The Wall Street Journal wrote an article called “The Simple Idea That is Transforming Health Care. I like simple ideas, so I read the article. The simple idea is about clinicians asking patients how their health is affecting their quality of life.…
Read More →December 16, 2011
Drug Shortage Unravels Lives: Alternative Approaches in Demand
Hi Dr Lee, I read the following article and thought about you. http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/15/9472468-lingering-shortage-of-adhd-drugs-unravels-lives One of my motivations during our process was the realization that I needed (or should) keep a separate “stash” of Effexor at work in case of an emergency (i.e. earthquake,…
Read More →September 1, 2009
New York Times Article: A Drug Maker’s Playbook Reveals a Marketing Strategy
The following article by the New York Times highlights one of the problems in medicine today that limits physicians from being open to alternative approaches to healing mental illness. With pharmaceutical companies paying doctors to laud their products, and doctors being seduced…
Read More →July 16, 2009
“The Doctor Who Lived”: Holistic Psychiatrist Defeats the Maryland Board (July 16, 2009)
Alice W. Lee, M.D., a holistic psychiatrist practicing in Olney, Maryland, has successfully defeated the Maryland Board of Physicians and protected her legal right to continue practicing orthomolecular psychiatry and energy medicine. After a raging, two-year battle in the Maryland courts and…
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