Article Detail

Something we can all agree on

 

          In this highly politicized season, is there something we can all agree upon?

          I think so. 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.

More reasons not to take psychiatric drugs

 

        Dr. Breggin writes on the 2008 FDA  warning on anti-seizure medications prescribed

        off-label as mood-stabilizers.

 

Psychiatry makes war on "bipolar children"

 

        The front cover of the May 26, 2008 Newsweek has a banner headline, "Growing Up

        Bipolar" with a split-face photograph of a ten-year-old boy. The headline

        should have read, "Victim of Psychiatric Assault."

 

Children poisoning themselves with illegal psychiatric drugs

 

        A Stanford University study described in the May 24-25, 2008 Wall Street Journal by

        reporter Jonathan Kaufman has shown that nearly one in ten of 11th graders take

        stimulants like Ritalin, Adderall and Concerta without a prescription. 

 

 

 Coming July 2008: new book, Medication Madness

 

         Dr. Breggin's latest book, Medication Madness, reads like a medical thriller,

         true crime story, and courtroom drama; but it is firmly based in the latest

         scientific research and in dozens of case studies. The lives of the children

         and adults in these stories, as well as the lives of their families and their

         victims, were thrown into turmoil and sometimes destroyed by the

         unanticipated effects of psychiatric drugs. More than fifty true-life tales of

         violence, suicide, and crime.

 

 

New updated and revised edition of Dr. Breggin's Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry

 

         The new second edition of Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry is a thorough and

         up-to-date presentation of Dr. Breggin's overall critique of modern psychiatry, including

         the latest medications and treatments. It describes general principles for the safe withdrawal

         from psychiatric drugs with specific examples of withdrawal problems related to

         each type of psychiatric medication, including antidepressants, tranquilizers,

         stimulants, mood stabilizers and neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drugs. And

         for interested professionals, patients and clients, it presents guidelines for how

         to conduct psychotherapy and counseling without resort to psychiatric

         drugs, even for the most emotionally distressed people.