Psychiatry

The Anthrax Perpetrator and the Arkansas Shooter Were Taking Antidepressants

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | 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

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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Congress Pummels Establishment Psychiatry but Neglects a Brave Psychiatrist

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 08.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Big Pharma, Psychiatry, Mental Health, Health, New York Times, Psychology, Alternative Medicine, Living News

The corruption of psychiatry by Big Pharma has resulted in the suppression of effective treatment options and has marginalized courageous, innovative, and non-corrupt psychiatrists.

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

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 07.26.2008 | 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

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 07.14.2008 | 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

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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Mental Recession: Like Manna From Heaven

Liz Spikol | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Seasonal Depression, Big Pharma, Psychiatry, Depression, Phil Gramm, Gramm Recession Is Mental, Light Therapy, Suicide, Epilepsy, Psychology, Spikol, Illness, Recession, Controversial Remarks, Fda, Health, Electroshock Therapy, Gramm Whiner, Denials, John McCain and Phil Gramm, Philadelphia, Mental, Phil Gramm Nation of Whiners, Headline News, Mental Recession, John McCain, Sad, Politics News

As a mental health journalist and someone who suffers with bipolar disorder, if there's one thing I know, it's how to solve a "mental" crisis.

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Is Suicide Preventable?

Liz Spikol | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Psychiatry, New York Times Magazine, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, Firearms, Health, Suicide, Psychology, Liz Spikol, Suicidal Ideation, Suicide Attempts, Guns, Living News

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Death by Neglect

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 07.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Overmedication, Mental Health, Kings County Hospital Center, New York Civil Liberties Union, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Flophouses, Health, Esmin Green, Psychiatric Drugs, Hospitals, New York City and State Mental Health Systems, Parkinsonism, Living News

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.

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There's No Excuse for Overmedicating the Elderly

Liz Spikol | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Psychiatry, Elderly, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Nursing Homes, Antipsychotics, New York Times, Psychology, Medications, Business News

The elderly in nursing homes have long been treated poorly, as so many guilty adult children (cf. The Savages) can attest. But because of societal p...

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Time to Die! (Oops, I Mean Time To Quit!)

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Depression, Drugs, Cigarettes, Smoking, Medication, Health Care, Chantix, Living News

The clinical trials of anti-smoking drug Chantix excluded people with mental disorders, but smoking is increased in this population, and these people are obviously at increased risk of suicidality.

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Beyond Politics -- Something We Can All Agree On

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.30.2008 | Living

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

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 05.25.2008 | Living

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

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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Welcome to The New World DisOrders -- They Are Legion

Carol Maric | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Journalists, Literature, Philosophy, Economics, Children, Sociology, Disorders, Psychology, Media, Medications, Asperger's, Meds, Leukemia, Politics, Television, Environmental, Kids, Critical Theory, Geniuses, Cancer, Parents, Albert Einstein, Psychiatry, Isaac Newton, Nightly News, Mental Health, Educators, Science, School, Labels, Genius, Pharmaceutical Companies, Cnn, Education, Human Rights, Workplace, Work, Environment, Autism, Brilliant, Brilliance, News, Asperger, Autistic, Essays, Psychopharmacology, Anti-Depressants, Essay, Politics News

If Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton can be relegated to the ranks of "Autism" these days, then The New World does seem perilously close to being upside down--as I have always suspected.

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New Schizophrenia Drug Offers Hope

The New York Times | Alex Berenson | Posted 02.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Medication, Schizophrenia Treatment, Schizophrenia, Living News

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

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Britney Spears Can Make Her Way Back to Stability and Real Self-Esteem

Keith Ablow | Posted 01.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Dr. Phil Britney Spears, Therapy, Britney Spears, Psychology, Britney Spears Custody, Britney Spears Hospitalized, Britney Spears Help, Britney Spears Drugs, Living News

Britney should understand that psychiatric medication can be an extraordinary tool for healing, but that soul searching with the right guide is indispensible.

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