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An analysis published in the current issue of the British J of Psychiatry (BJP) of the suicide rate among schizophrenia patients treated at the same hospital in North Wales (UK) before psychotropic drugs and patients treated (in and out of hospital) with neuroleptics and /or atypical antipsychotics, found a 20-fold increase in the suicide rate since use of psychotropic drugs.


The lead author is Dr. David Healy, an internationally recognized authority both as a psychopharmacologist ...

WASHINGTON -- Ritalin and other stimulant drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder should carry the strongest warning that they may be linked to an increased risk of death and injury, federal health advisers said Thursday.

More:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/259053_add10.html

Millions have misused ADHD drugs
Study shows teens and young adults use the stimulants recreationally
By SHANKAR VEDANTAM
The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — More than 7 million Americans are estimated to have ...

Zyprexa Medicaid Gravy Train Derailed

When Zyprexa was approved to treat adults with schizophrenia in 1996, Eli Lilly and the FDA knew about drug's lethal side effects. Data from a 1996 six-week clinical trial reveals 27 deaths, 15 of which were suicides, and a drop-out rate of 65%.

In his book, Mad In America, investigative journalist Robert Whitaker, reported that one in every 145 subjects who entered the clinical trials for Zyprexa, Risperdal, Seroquel, and ...

About two months ago I was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety. My doctor gave me a survey. On the bottom of the survey it said "Lilly," this stuck in my head but I didn't think much of it at the time other than I figured "Lilly" was a pharmaceutical company.

I was prescribed Effexor XR. I noticed right away that it had negative side effects. I did some research and found out that Effexor ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3545684.stm

http://www.mercola.com/2005/nov/17/phar ... pplies.htm

this is absolutely disgracefull.

seeing antidepressants are no more effective at treating depression than sugar pills (they work via belief and have no other effect) antidepressants should be banned. antidepressants are a toxic environmental disaster.

but that doesn't mean the best way forward is to treat with neuroleptics or other medications.

Perhaps some of you will have seen this already - I found it very interesting reading (maybe I'm not so far off wondering if my brain changes are diet related after all!)

This is the work of Malcolm Peet.

Quote;

"Malcolm Peet is currently Consultant in charge of the Rehabilitation and Assertive Outreach Services for Rotherham Priority Health NHS ...

STATEMENT from MindFreedom International about the psychiatric drugs typically used during involuntary outpatient commitment:

THE FACT THAT NEUROLEPTIC DRUGS CAN CAUSE BRAIN INJURY IS CRUCIAL TO THE DEBATE IN NEW MEXICO ABOUT KENDRA'S LAW.

New Mexico's legislature was moving quickly toward passing a law to allow its citizens to be court ordered to take psychiatric drugs while living peacefully in their own homes out in the community.

There are many issues involved, but one issue ...

Psychiatry's Untold History of Cruelty, Torture, Eugenics and Brain Damage.

http://thestreetspirit.org/August2005/madinterview.htm

(from http://www.schizophrenia.com/research/schiz.brain.htm )

Warning: This article discusses things like science, which I know the anti-psych people aren't very acquainted with. If you're an anti-psych, try your best to follow along and please don't make your reflexive, paranoid, knee-jerk conspiracy theory replies about the drug industry and the medical science of psychiatry until after you've read the whole article, thanks :)

UCLA ...

(copied from http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/course ... ge%202.htm , the fascinating thing about Wain is that you can see his paintings change gradually as his brain is lost to schizophrenia)

Late Onset – Louis Wain

Louis Wain was born in London’s Clerkenwell district in 1860 and eventually became an artist, selling his sketches of dog shows to the Illustrated Sporting News. He married his youngest sister's governess, Emily Richardson, which was considered ...