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Peter Breggin

The Real Thanksgiving Day -- Our Presidents Explain

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Holidays, Peter Breggin, Thanksgiving Day, George Washington, Franklin Dr. Roosevelt, U. S. Presidents, Abraham Lincoln, Native Americans, God, Gratitude, Politics News
Dr. Peter Breggin

By looking at what our most revered presidents have said about the meaning of Thanksgiving, we can get a better idea of the purpose of our national holiday.

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Hasan, Fort Hood, and the Need to Reassert, "Wow, I'm an American!"

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Psychiatry, Nidal Hasan, Peter Breggin, Fort Hood, Pc, Politically Correct, Terrorist, Traitor, Politics News
Dr. Peter Breggin

The military failed to protect itself from Major Nidal Hasan. Why? Because it has been neutered by the shame and guilt engendered by political correctness.

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

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Malpractice Suits, Product Liability Suits, Risperdal, Peter Breggin, Antipsychotic Drugs, Legal, Zyprexa, Adverse Drug Effects, Abilify, Seorquel, Geodon, Living News
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.

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Ten Inevitable Tragic Consequences of National Health Care

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Sterilization, Peter-Breggin, Public Option, Rationing Health Care, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Euthanasia, Health Care, Politics News
Dr. Peter Breggin

With the looming probability of a "public option" as a prelude to full-blown national health care, it's important examine the most threatening and eve...

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How to Live Like an American: The Basics

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Founders, Bill of Rights, Peter Breggin, Liberty, Us Constitution, American Values, Psychology, Living News
Dr. Peter Breggin

I grew to understand that the same principles that worked so well in my psychiatry practice were the same principles taught by our founders and expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

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"Wow, I'm an American!"

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Freedom, Self-Help, Peter Breggin, Values, Psychology, America, Founding Fathers, Constitution, Responsibility, Living News
Dr. Peter Breggin

We've taken the "wow" out of America. It's time to put it back. It's time to be proud to "Live like an American!"

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Learn to Help Children Without Psychiatric Drugs

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatry, Peter Breggin, Children, Psychiatric Diagnoses Families, Living News
Dr. Peter Breggin

Learn how psychiatric diagnoses disempower children and mislead their parents and teachers. Learn how psychiatric drugs retard the development of children, cause serious adverse effects.

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Michael Savage: Irrepressible Canary in Freedom's Mineshaft

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 09.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Conservative Talk Radio, The Fairness Doctrine, Freedom of Speech, Peter Breggin, Michael Savage, Media News
Dr. Peter Breggin

What if conservatives take over the Congress and the presidency in the future? Do you want to set a precedent for federal control over talk radio and eventually television and the Internet as well?

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Stimulants for ADHD Shown to Cause Sudden Death in Children

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Peter Breggin, ADHD Drug Deaths, Ritalin Deaths, Psychiatric Drugs, Children's Health, Child Death, Stimulants Cause Sudden Death, Living News
Dr. Peter Breggin

Our children don't need drugs--they need us to protect them from misguided health professionals while we make every effort to meet their real needs in our families and schools.

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The Anthrax Perpetrator and the Arkansas Shooter Were Taking Antidepressants

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Psychiatry, Murder, Tim Johnson, Anthrax, Antidepressants, Terrorism, Drug Side Effects, Bruce Ivins, Peter Breggin, Psychiatric Drugs, Medication Madness, Prozac, Ssris, Celexa, Politics News
Dr. Peter Breggin

It was recently disclosed that two murderers, one extremely notorious, were probably taking antidepressants at the time of their crimes, but hardly an...

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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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Lessons from the Death of "Mental Patient" Esmin Green

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatry, Emergency Room Death, Antipsychotic Drugs, Hospital Neglect, Emergency Room Neglect, Peter Breggin, Psychiatric Patient, Seroquel or Geodon, Health, Neuroleptics, Zyprexa, Haldol, Risperdal, Esmin Green, Living News
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...

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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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Beyond Politics -- Something We Can All Agree On

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Politics, Schools, Families, Children, Consensus, Peter Breggin, Health, Social Control Parenting, Psychiatric Drugs, Lobotomy, Civil Rights, Living News
Dr. Peter Breggin

From the political left or right, we should be able to come together around the idea that it's bad to use psychiatric drugs to control children. There are better ways.

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Children Poisoning Themselves with Illegal Psychiatric Drugs

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Stimulants, Adhd, Children, Psychiatric Drugs, Peter Breggin, Drug Abuse, Living News
Dr. Peter Breggin

Are teenagers the victims of drug dealers? Partying? Actually, they are trying to handle the overload of work in eleventh grade in highly competitive schools in affluent communities.

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