Antipsychotic Drugs

The Psychiatric Drugging of America's Foster Children

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 12.22.2011

Dr. Peter Breggin

There were approximately 662,000 children in foster care in the U.S. in 2010. Now, there is a Government Accounting Office report confirming that foster children in five states are receiving shocking amounts of psychiatric drugs.

Dementia Patients Get Antipsychotics Prescriptions Despite Death Risk, Report Says

CNN | Posted 08.01.2011

A new report from the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services makes clear just how crucial it is for families ...

Making A Market In Antipsychotic Drugs: A Tragedy

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Dr. Peter Breggin

Drug companies and organized medicine and psychiatry must be stopped from benefiting from the creation of lifelong patients suffering from chronic medication-induced madness.

Antipsychotic Drugs, Their Harmful Effects, and the Limits of Tort Reform

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Dr. Peter Breggin

There are many problems within our legal system that could benefit from reform. But so-called tort reform has already gone too far.

Lessons from the Death of "Mental Patient" Esmin Green

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Dr. Peter Breggin

The Emergency Room video cam took it all in but no human response was forthcoming. Forty-nine year old Esmin Green had been involuntarily committed a...