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| Arecent analysis has found that Americans are conflicted about psychiatric drugs. Although the majority say they believe these medications are effective, they still would not use them.
Although people are becoming more understanding of mental illness, there is still a stigma associated with taking antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, according to a report from researchers at the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research at Indiana University, Bloomington. The report was funded, in part, by the National Institute of Mental Health. |
Charles Barber
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 When I asked a troubled teenager, himself taking antidepressants, if he talked about his medication with his peers, many of whom were also taking psychiatric drugs, he said no. "Is that because you're a little embarrassed about it?" I asked. "No, no. It's just not that interesting to anybody . . . Just kind of boring," he said.
The current environment is such that a twenty-one-year-old college student can delineate, with a curious combination of pride, shame, and indifference, the last five years of her life by the drugs she was taking in the pages of New York magazine. |
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| Pescosolido, PhD
Although many people are reluctant to take psychiatric drugs, most would have little qualms about taking a drug to ease a physical problem.
"I think they are afraid of what is going to happen to them," says Pescosolido. "They've been primed by the media about what might happen in the first two weeks, when some people have a risk for suicide.
"There is a real link in the public mind between mental illness and 'dangerousness,' and that is what is fueling the stigma," says Pescosolido.
There is reason for concern, adds Goodstein. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Make no mistake about it," writes one critic, "every prescription written for powerful, mind-altering psychiatric drugs is a government backed experiment."54 Indeed the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical community is at the heart (should we say brain?) of the matter. "The way to sell drugs," according to one bioethi-cist, "is to sell psychiatric illness."55 According to the clever New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd: "The more anxious the companies feel about profit, the more generalized the generalized anxiety get. |
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| Although people are becoming more understanding of mental illness, there is still a stigma associated with taking antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, according to a report from researchers at the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research at Indiana University, Bloomington. The report was funded, in part, by the National Institute of Mental Health.
THE STUDY
In the study, the research team reviewed data from the 1998 General Social Survey of 1,400 Americans. They found that... |
Mark Sircus
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 Sydney Walker, author of The Hyperactivity Hoax, "Thousands of children put on psychiatric drugs are simply smart. These students are bored to tears, and people who are bored fidget, wiggle, scratch, stretch, and (especially if they are boys) start looking for ways to get into trouble." What this chapter adds to that is the underlying complication these children face when their magnesium levels are too low and the devastation that rains down on them in the form of psychiatric medications.
If we look at the whole picture what do we see? |
Charles Barber
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| The following is a story from a research psychologist from Oregon, describing his experience taking, and then trying to get off, antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs.
I started taking antidepressants at age 19 when my mother sent me to see a psychiatrist because I was floundering in college. I realize now that I gave these well-intentioned doctors far too much credit and didn't question the strictly biological approach to treating my depression until the drugs started to poop out and I noticed that I was emotionally numb, overweight, sexless and depressed. |
| It was not at all unusual for my clients to be taking three, four, five, or six different types of psychiatric drugs in a given day—a combination not unlike the number of street drugs many of them had once been addicted to.
I am not a psychiatrist. My job was first as a counselor at, and then director of, a number of clinical and residential programs, and finally as a senior administrator at social services agencies and a researcher at medical schools. But I became oddly enthralled by the ongoing parade of medications that entered my clients' mouths (and sometimes their arms, via injection). |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| We have all heard about psychiatric drugs used to treat our children for ADD or ADHD.
Please make every attempt to prevent the companies that manufacture these drugs from getting close to your children. Unless a matter of life or death exists, please recognize that these drugs may do more harm than good and act accordingly.4
Like organized crime, pharmaceutical corporations seek to take their unconscionably acquired profits and convert them to power. When dollars can be exchanged for influence and market control, society as a whole will become victims of the pharmaceuticals. |
Charles Barber
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| Americans adore their prescription drugs like no other people on earth, but they really, really adore their psychiatric drugs. Americans are responsible for almost half of the world's prescription drug sales,47 but the disparity is even greater when it comes to CNS (central nervous system) agents. In 2006, Americans—about 6 percent of the world's population—bought about two-thirds of the world's psychiatric and neurological drugs. In 2006, 66 percent of the global antidepressant market was accounted for by the United States. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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Amazon Review: psychiatric drugs are prescribed to more than 20 million Americans. This book aims to convince us to stop taking these drugs, and to show us how to do it safely. The authors contend that after 15 minutes with a physician or psychiatrist, Americans are prescribed medications that we may take for years or a lifetime, which can do more harm than good. alternative, integrative, preventive and holistic medicine
Alternative Medicine Magazine www.altmedmarket. |
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| Approximately two-thirds said psychiatric drugs do help people who have mental health problems deal with day-to-day anxiety, control their symptoms and improve family relationships.
•If they were to start experiencing panic attacks, only 56% said they would be willing to take medication.
•If they were diagnosed with depression, 41% said they would take medication.
• For personal troubles or stress only approximately one-third would be willing to take medication. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Virtually all violent acts committed by children in schools over the last ten years were committed by individuals who had been on prescribed psychiatric drugs. The psychiatric drugs prescribed increase the chance of suicide and dramatically increase the chance of violent acts. Prescribed psychiatric drugs are deadly and should never be consumed.
• Most drugs are physically addicting. Most notably, pain medication, as evidenced by many celebrities, including Rush Limbaugh, who were given drugs by their doctor not knowing the addictive nature of the drug. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Pink or reddish urine can also be a reaction to several psychiatric drugs, as well as anthraquinone-containing anticancer agents.
Unfortunately, pink or reddish pee does sometimes signal blood in the urine—medically known as hematuria. It can, for example, be a sign of an injury to the kidney. But the blood can originate anywhere along the urinary tract. It can be an important early warning sign of several serious kidney, liver, or bladder conditions, including infections, stones, cysts, tumors, and even cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This book explains exactly why kids like Robert Hawkins who have been treated with psychiatric drugs end up shooting innocents.
What could have healed Robert Hawkins and saved lives
So what's the solution to all this? Robert Hawkins could have been healed with a radical change in diet that supports healthy brain chemistry. His parents or caretakers should have stopped the junk food, ended the medication and put him on raw, living foods and daily superfood smoothies, fresh vegetable juices, raw nuts and seeds and other wholesome, non-processed foods. |
| The brain wasn't functioning like a normal, healthy, well-nourished brain; it was functioning like a zoned out "zombie" brain permanently distorted by psychiatric drugs.
Sending a teenager out into the public doped up on mind-altering drugs that we KNOW are linked to violence -- and jacked up on junk foods (he worked at McDonald's) -- is a certain recipe for disaster. Big Pharma executives, drug reps and the irresponsible psychiatrists who dish these pills out to teenagers might as well have just walked right into the mall and set off a bomb themselves. |
| The mainstream media virtually glorified the event, yet utterly failed to report the connection between violence in young men and treatment with psychiatric drugs. (Both Harris and Klebold were taking antidepressant drugs.)
It's a little known fact that antidepressant drugs have never been tested on children nor approved by the FDA for use on children. It is well established in the scientific literature, however, that such drugs cause young men to think violent thoughts and commit violent acts. This is precisely why the U.K. has outright banned the prescribing of such drugs to children. |
| Those lacking keen observation skills are quick to blame guns for this tragedy, but others who are familiar with the history of such violent acts by young males instantly recognize a more sinister connection: A history of treatment with psychiatric drugs for depression and ADHD.
It all started in Columbine, Colorado, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold massacred their way into the history books on April 20, 1999 by killing 12 and wounding 23 people. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Medicare drugs, he's pushed for mandatory "mental health screening" of children that would result in a windfall of profits for psychiatric drugs, he has supported legal immunity for drug companies in cases where patients are killed by drugs like Vioxx, and he has supported the FDA's actions on banning drug imports and protecting monopoly drug pricing in the United States. |
Charles Barber
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| In July 2006, of the ten most popular online searches for pharmaceutical and medical products, six concerned psychiatric drugs or psychiatric disease. (They were, in order, Lexapro, Cymbalta, Zoloft, Wellbutrin [an antianxiety agent], Effexor, and the illness of depression itself.)30 Among people who have visited a medication site, depression is by far the most researched medical condition, with 2.9 million unique visitors over a three-month period in 2006. The next most researched conditions? Bipolar disorder and insomnia.31
To further the ascent of Prozac et al. |
Melody Petersen
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 Gorman had become a popular hire for the manufacturers of psychiatric drugs. He was the same psychiatrist who had appeared on the morning news to tell America that Celexa could treat "compulsive shopping disorder." He had also recently helped boost the sales of Paxil, another antidepressant, when he provided sound bites for television news programs while in the pay of the drug's maker, GlaxoSmithKline. Professor Gorman's message on that corporate speaking tour was that worrying too much might actually be a disease, one that was easily treatable with drugs like Paxil. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Although the toxicology report ruled out psychiatric drugs in the body of 2007 Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui, his roommate reportedly told the media that Cho's morning routine including taking prescription medicine. This may mean that he had been taking medication but stopped before his tragic massacre of thirty-three people on the university campus. |
Charles Barber
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| Collectively, central nervous system drugs, of which psychiatric drugs are the primary component, are among the fastest-growing segments of the world market. CNS diseases, which include Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well as psychiatric diseases, are, well, hot. They represent dream marketing opportunities for drug makers, for a number of reasons. Psychiatric and neurological diseases tend to be chronic, meaning that those who truly suffer from them will, or should, take the medications for the rest of their lives. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| The Citizens Commission on Human Rights reports that a review of US school shootings from 1998 to 2007 indicates that 38 percent of the perpetrators were taking psychiatric drugs. In Columbine, Colorado, Eric Harris was on the antidepressant Luvox when he and Dylan Klebold killed twelve classmates and a teacher, wounded twenty-three others, and killed themselves. Six years later, in 2005, Jeff Weise was taking Prozac when he shot and killed nine people before committing suicide. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 More than 160,000 got at least four psychiatric drugs at the same time. Taking drugs has become so commonplace among children and teenagers that young people talk casually about needing to "adjust their meds" in response to a rough week at school or a bad breakup, and instead of snorting or smoking illegal substances at parties, they trade prescription pills.
Clearly, some kids benefit enormously from taking psychiatric medications. SSRIs, antipsychotics, and stimulants all have a place in treating mental illness, which can devastate children's lives and tear families apart. |
| More than coo,000 were prescribed at least three medications. More than 160,000 got at least four psychiatric drugs at the same time. Taking drugs has become so commonplace among children and teenagers that young people talk casually about needing to "adjust their meds" in response to a rough week at school or a bad breakup, and instead of snorting or smoking illegal substances at parties, they trade prescription pills.
Clearly, some kids benefit enormously from taking psychiatric medications. |
Melody Petersen
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| Collins is not the only physician in the state to be shaken by the rising number of psychiatric drugs taken by Iowa's children.
"We're seeing kids on three, four, five, six drugs," said Dr. Jeffrey Lobas, the director of fourteen clinics in Iowa that specialize in children's health. "It's what I see as a common practice."
I first met Dr. Lobas, who is also a professor at the University of Iowa, at a pediatrics conference in Washington in May 2005. We both were attending an early Sunday-morning session for physicians on how to treat attention deficit disorders in preschoolers. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| This mineral-vitamin supplement seems to generally potentiate the clinical properties of psychiatric drugs."
Other nutritional remedies that have been shown to be beneficial in treating mood disorders include omega-3 fatty acids, phenylalanine, triiodothyronine, 1-cysteine, folic acid, inositol, vitamin B12, and vitamin C.
Patient Story: Bipolar Disorder_
/ treated a patient who, for 40 years, exhibited a history that was very clearly that of a manic depressive: He was erratic, impulsive, had marital problems, and was in and out of jobs. |
Melody Petersen
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| But the brighter mood, better report card, and growing circle of friends promised in the advertisements for such psychiatric drugs never came to Peter.
When he was a junior in high school, he dropped out of school.
Aaron, the younger boy, got his first psychiatric diagnosis in the second grade. Sandy ties his diagnosis back to the day of a class trip and an unwritten note of appreciation. Aaron's teacher asked students each to write a thank-you note to the group that had hosted the outing. Aaron refused. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| I have a great deal of concern about this, because of the dangers of Prozac and other psychiatric drugs, as discussed in Chapter 2.
Catherine Carrigan, whose self-healing from crippling depression and the books she has written about it have inspired many other people, believes the disease has mental, physical, and spiritual causes and solutions. She recommends checking for physical health problems first, particularly since "studies show that if you go to a psychiatrist alone, the chances of medical, nonmental factors being discovered are less than one in ten. |
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