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"The second-most-common cause of ED is other medications, including antihypertensives, beta-blockers, antipsychotics, antidepressants, spironolactone (Aldactone), cimetidine (Tagamet), and finasteride (Proscar). Psychological or emotional concerns are the least common causes." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Asendin (loxapine) is metabolized into an antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drug and poses all the risks associated with antipsychotics, including tardive dyskinesia. All the "classic stimulants" are Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Schedule II narcotics, indicating the highest risk of tolerance and dependence (addiction). ^Few people realize that doctors can prescribe methamphetamine, the deadly drug of addiction, to children for ADHD. TAll are DEA Schedule IV narcotics, indicating a risk of tolerance and dependence (addiction) , except Rozerem." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"For example, when someone with late-stage liver disease develops something called "hepatic encephalopathy" or temporary insanity from liver failure, the treatment is not antipsychotics, but antibiotics to clear out the bacteria in the intestine, which produce brain-destroying toxins that can no longer be detoxified by the liver. Imagine, treating insanity with antibiotics. Similarly, we know that alcoholics become "crazy" with a condition known as Wernicke's encephalopathy from vitamin B, (or thiamine) deficiency, which can be cured by giving them a vitamin." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "Do we really need more antidepressants, stimulants, antipsychotics, and memory medications? Are we defectively designed so that we cannot be happy, or concentrate or remember things, without pills? Is depression a Prozac deficiency? Is ADHD a Ritalin deficiency? Is Alzheimer's an Aricept deficiency? I think not. Yet the use of these drugs is skyrocketing. Psychiatric or psychotropic medications are the number-two selling class of prescription drugs,1' after cholesterol medication." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "And could it be that therapies primarily aimed at altering brain function through antidepressants, stimulants, antipsychotics, and seizure medications may miss the primary mechanisms or disturbances that show up as behavioral, mood, or neurological symptoms? New research shows clearly that the communication between the brain and the body is bidirectional. Even though Mind-Body Medicine has been studied and accepted as legitimate,1 it provides only a one-dimensional view of the interaction between the brain and the body." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Synonyms for neuroleptics are antipsychotics and major tranquillizers. In other words, the severely mentally ill person and persons in institutions are treated with those neuroleptics. Approximately 10 million people in the USA are treated with these heavy medications each year. Psychiatrist Breggin reveals that the side effects of those neuroleptics probably have no antipsychotic effect; they don't heal in other words! But they can cause feelings of helplessness, the deterioration of the mind, neurological damage, dementia, trembling, and twitching, and can impair organs." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Major tranquilizers, also called antipsychotics, or neuroleptics (nerve-seizing), frequently cause difficulty in thinking, nightmares, emotional dullness, depression, despair and sexual dysfunction. Physically, they can cause tardive dyskinesia ?sudden, uncontrollable, painful muscle cramps and spasms, writhing, squirming, twisting, and grimacing movements, especially of the legs, face, mouth and tongue, drawing the face into a hideous scowl." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"SSRIs, antipsychotics, and stimulants all have a place in treating mental illness, which can devastate children's lives and tear families apart. But it's hard to imagine that the incredible increase in psychiatric prescriptions for teenagers and children is due entirely to an epidemic of psychiatric disorders, that some combination of bad parenting, bad genes, and bad videos has created an entire nation of screwed-up kids." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Psychiatric visits that included treatment of a child with an antipsychotic went from a little over 200,000 in 1993 to 1.2 million in 2002. More than 90 percent of those prescriptions (all of them off label) were for the atypical antipsychotics, newer versions of the drugs that may cause serious side effects, such as rapid weight gain, diabetes, and a movement disorder known as tardive dyskinesia." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "But in 2006, a study sponsored not by manufacturers but by the National Institute of Mental Health found that the atypicals are no more effective than conventional antipsychotics and may cause just as many side effects. In fact, the study found that some of the the atypicals may cause high rates of stroke, sudden cardiac arrest, rapid weight gain, and diabetes, side effects that a leading psychiatrist and former champion of the drugs calls "staggering in their magnitude and extent." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Saliva rinses the mouth of food particles that cause odour: Certain medications like antipsychotics or antidepressants may cause dry mouth. Breathing through the mouth may also dry the mouth and throat. Mouth breathing results from blocked nasal passages, polyps or a broken nose. • Dehydration can cause bad breath. Fluids help to flush out the mouth of bacteria. • Underlying diseases such as diabetes, kidney and liver disease are linked to halitosis. Liver disease can make breath smell fishy. Urine or breath like mothballs can be related to kidney disease. Fruity breath is linked to diabetes." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Nine-year-old Reggie was now taking stimulants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers in a cocktail sufficient to level a giant adult. It's a miracle that he could stay erect. But he could not maintain his sanity. Intoxicated by psychiatric drugs, Reggie for the first time began to display multiple severe psychiatric symptoms." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Millions of individuals are kept on mind-numbing drug combinations, often including cocktails of antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and benzodiazepine tranquilizers. It is often apparent that the drugs are grossly impairing the overall function of these people. Yet, they keep taking the drugs. It is a worldwide demonstration of spellbinding—not the kind that leads to violence and suicide but the kind that leads to a slow spiritual decline under the crushing weight of drug-induced brain dysfunction and damage." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"These medications might have included antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, bipolar meds, antipsychotics, OCD meds, insomnia medications, and, of course, Ritalin. My approach to the broad scope of Alisa's problems was quite different. From my perspective, all these problems were interrelated, synergistic, and due largely to complex, metabolic root causes that required biomedical treatment." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"He referred her to a neurologist who diagnosed tardive dyskinesia and the antipsychotics were stopped. Unfortunately, it was too late—the disorder had become irreversible. Now the neurologist faced a daunting problem. Mrs. Dignity's abnormal movements had become so painful, exhausting, and disabling that something had to be done to control them. The only effective way to suppress the movements was to give her the same kind of drugs that had caused her disorder." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Hops should be used with caution when given in conjunction with other central nervous system depressants, antipsychotics, or alcohol due to its sedative effect (Newall, 1996). Excessive use over a long period may cause dizziness, cognitive changes, and mild jaundice symptoms in some individuals. Hops may cause adverse effects when used during periods of menstrual disturbances, nervousness, dermatitis, hypersensitivity reactions, and respiratory allergies. The fresh plant has a sensitizing effect (hops-picker's disease), which may occur, more rarely, with the dust of the drug as well." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"This can happen with some hormonal contraceptives, with some antidepressants and antipsychotics, and with any drug that includes steroids, such as prednisone (usually taken orally) and inhaled steroids used to treat asthma. 2. Reduced absorption of nutrients. Most drugs discussed in this book are taken by mouth. In passing through the gastrointestinal tract, they can bind to specific nutrients before they're able to be absorbed into your bloodstream." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"These include sedatives (benzodiazepenes), antinausea drugs (Zofran®), analeptics such as Ritalin®, anticonvulsants such as Tegretol®, antipsychotics such as Thorazine®, antidepressants such as Elavil®, calcium channel blockers usually used for blood pressure, lidocaine, antacids, and baclofen. The first choice for treatment is usually 10 mg of Reglan® three times a day for acute hiccups. Surgery: Surgical intervention involves an irreversible destruction of the phrenic nerve, the nerve leading to the diaphragm." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"The elderly are just more vulnerable, and clearly, there's a susceptibility to antipsychotics that was never picked up in trials. Philip Wang, MD, DrPH Some experts have worried that clinicians are interpreting the absence of data as an absence of risk, and are prescribing older drugs because they think they are safer. "If they're switching because they think there's no risk because the FDA didn't include older drugs in the advisory, then that's not a good switch," Wang says. "If they're going to switch, they should do so fully informed." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"For more information on antipsychotics, see page 137. Also used are mood stabilizers and anticonvulsants such as valproic acid (Depakote, Depakene), and lamotrig-ine (Lamictal). They all have a calming effect on the brain, mediated mainly by the neurotransmitter GABA). An older but still reliable drug for bipolar illness is lithium—which we'll cover here, since it's not included in the section on Anticonvulsants in Chapter 8. MOOD stabilizer: lithium (Lithobid, Lithonate, Eskalith) Lithium has long been a mainstay in the treatment of bipolar illness." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.) "This can happen with some hormonal contraceptives, with some antidepressants and antipsychotics, and with any drug that includes steroids, such as prednisone (usually taken orally) and inhaled steroids used to treat asthma. 2. Reduced absorption of nutrients. Most drugs discussed in this book are taken by mouth. In passing through the gastrointestinal tract, they can bind to specific nutrients before they're able to be absorbed into your bloodstream." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Among such drugs are antidiarrheals, antipsychotics, and older antidepressants, as well as digoxin (a heart drug), codeine (for pain), captopril (another common heart drug), and even high-dose Tagamet (for heart-burn/GERD). Of the twenty-five medications most regularly prescribed to geriatric patients in the United States, Mintzer concluded, thirteen have "significant anticholinergic activity at the doses commonly prescribed," meaning that they impede the necessary work of acetylcholine. There is widespread and largely unmonitored use of these meds." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Based on these findings, it's sensible for anyone on antipsychotics to take 25 mg per day for prevention. Higher doses up to 60 mg per day may reverse existing TD. High-dose vitamin E (800-1,600 IU) may also aid in TD prevention, based on a large study by renowned psychiatrist David Hawkins. • Melatonin: 3 mg at bedtime. Melatonin is a hormone made at nightfall. It's built out of the neurotransmitter serotonin, in a small gland in the brain called the pineal gland. This hormone is also a powerful antioxidant." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"In a survey published in 2006 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a group of researchers from the United States and Germany looked at the results of nearly three dozen published papers on the atypical antipsychotics, powerful drugs used to suppress disordered thinking and behavior in patients with schizophrenia and other serious mental conditions. The studies they looked at were a particular type of clinical trial known as a head-to-head trial, which compares the efficacy and safety of one drug with those of another." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "SSRIs, antipsychotics, and stimulants all have a place in treating mental illness, which can devastate children's lives and tear families apart. But it's hard to imagine that the incredible increase in psychiatric prescriptions for teenagers and children is due entirely to an epidemic of psychiatric disorders, that some combination of bad parenting, bad genes, and bad videos has created an entire nation of screwed-up kids." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Psychiatric visits that included treatment of a child with an antipsychotic went from a little over 200,000 in 1993 to 1.2 million in 2002. More than 90 percent of those prescriptions (all of them off label) were for the atypical antipsychotics, newer versions of the drugs that may cause serious side effects, such as rapid weight gain, diabetes, and a movement disorder known as tardive dyskinesia." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In the first 180 days of use, 179% of the patients on conventional antipsychotics died compared with 14.6% of those taking the newer medications. This translates into a 37% higher risk of death for those patients prescribed the older medications. The greatest increase in the risk of death for the people taking conventional antipsychotic medications occurred in the first 40 days after beginning therapy. During this period, the risk was 56% higher." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"More than 90 percent of those prescriptions (all of them off label) were for the atypical antipsychotics, newer versions of the drugs that may cause serious side effects, such as rapid weight gain, diabetes, and a movement disorder known as tardive dyskinesia. Among boys ages six to twelve, more than half of antidepressant prescriptions written are intended to treat so-called conduct disorders, like hyperactivity and attention deficit, behavior that might have been written off a generation ago as "boys will be boys," but that now is labeled as a disease and treated with a drug." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Don't worry, there is still heavier psychiatric artillery—the antipsychotics. Heaven forbid we consider that forcing amphetamines down a child's throat might be the real problem. Does all of this sound extreme? It should, because it is a very extreme approach to treating children in distress, but that doesn't mean it can't happen—and happen often. Below is the story of a child it almost destroyed." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Among the most popular are antipsychotics, antianxiety agents, and hypnotics — all used for behavior management. Then there are the antidepressants, prescribed to about one third of all residents who take psych meds. Much of this pattern grows out of pharma's new sales push at such institutions; the number of sales contacts at chronic-care facilities grew by 8 percent in 2002 alone. In the general senior population, the two biggest pharma tribes for chronic disease are those concerned with diabetes, and those concerned with osteoarthritis and osteoporosis." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

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