Psychiatric Drugs

The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It

Anis Shivani | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books


Anis Shivani

Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.

Learn to Help Children Without Psychiatric Drugs

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living


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.

Psychotropic Drugs: Parameter Introduced For Children And Adolescents

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living


The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is proud to announce its new practice parameter on the use of psychotropic medications...

Ending Drunkenness in America

Stanton Peele | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living


Stanton Peele

Hopefully, teens will never drink. Instead, they can consume tons of corn starch in soft drinks and snack foods.

Medication Madness: How Psychiatric Drugs Cause Violence, Suicide, and Crime

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living


Dr. Peter Breggin

We need to be able to take complete responsibility for ourselves and to think through our problems with rational clarity. All psychiatric drugs impair those higher mental functions.

Can You Trust Your Psychiatrist?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living


Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

If you can't trust big Pharma with its capacity to influence doctors then how can you trust your psychiatrist?

Stimulants for ADHD Shown to Cause Sudden Death in Children

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living


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.

Who Needs the Brothers Grimm When We Have Teen Screen?

Anne Dunev | Posted 04.19.2009 | Living


Anne Dunev

The test: TeenScreen. Its mission: to test all American school children. The treatment? Psychotropic drugs that carry the all too real risks of suicide, suicidal ideation, homicide and homicidal ideation.

The Anthrax Perpetrator and the Arkansas Shooter Were Taking Antidepressants

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.17.2008 | Politics


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...

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

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics


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.

Lessons from the Death of "Mental Patient" Esmin Green

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | Living


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...

Death by Neglect

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 07.15.2008 | Living


Jay Neugeboren

My brother Robert has been a patient in the NYC mental health systems for the past 46 years, and though outraged by Esmin Green's death, I'm not surprised -- people with mental illness remain the stepchildren of the medical system.

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

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics


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.

Beyond Politics -- Something We Can All Agree On

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | Living


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.

Children Poisoning Themselves with Illegal Psychiatric Drugs

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | Living


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.

Psychiatry Makes War on "Bipolar Children"

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 07.26.2008 | Living


Dr. Peter Breggin

Children trying to come off multiple psychiatric medications almost certainly face severe withdrawal problems. But if they are kept on drugs indefinitely, their condition will deteriorate.

New Schizophrenia Drug Offers Hope

The New York Times | Alex Berenson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


The drug had reduced schizophrenic symptoms, validating the efforts of hundreds of scientists, inside and outside of Lilly, who had labored together f...