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"When stimulants, antidepressants, and tranquilizers fail to subdue the rebellious ones, eventually they are given "antipsychotic" drugs such as Risperdal, Zyprexa, and seroquel. By shutting down the function of the highest centers of the brain, these drugs can produce an actual chemical lobotomy and a chemical straitjacket from which no adult or child can escape.1 Given sufficiently toxic doses of these drugs, any child can be rendered docile. Most parents don't easily go along with this prescription for crushing their children." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"And in 2004, the psychiatric drugs Zoloft, seroquel, Celexa, and Lexapro were each the number-one or the number-two best-selling products of their respective manufacturers.14 If one were to put the most brilliant drug marketers in the world in a room for a month, they would not be able to come up with a more propitious set of contingencies upon which to launch a new category of drugs than that Prozac enjoyed by the time of its 1988 introduction." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Consider the rather astonishing example of antipsychotics or major tranquilizers (including Risperdal, Zyprexa, seroquel, and Geodon).This class of medications is one of the biggest-growing sectors in drug sales. Antipsychotic usage has shown a 10 to 20 percent rate of increase per year over the last few years and today sales of these drugs total about $12 billion a year. Traditionally such medications were reserved for psychosis, defined as an inability to distinguish what's real from what's imagined." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Risperdal, Zyprexa, seroquel, or Abilify. The following day Andy's therapist contacted the family. The boy had spoken about wanting to join his deceased grandfather and friend but he voiced no plan. The psychologist was worried but foresaw no imminent danger. Andy's psychiatrist at the clinic, the place where his treatment had begun, finally saw the boy for the first time. This is the doctor who had originally recommended the doubling of Andy's Zoloft before she ever met him. Now she seemed to make a decision—to reduce and then stop Andy's Zoloft." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Chapter 16 This Is Not My Daughter THE "ANTIPSYCHOTIC" MEDICATIONS like Zyprexa, seroquel, and Abilify have their primary or "therapeutic" effect by causing severe apathy and indifference. The personality and self-determination of the individual are subdued and, in some cases, nearly snuffed out. These drugs may render people unable to care about themselves and about life. I have described these lobotomizing effects as "deactivation," a general crushing of spontaneity and autonomy with the production of apathy and docility." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Almost all the neuroleptics, including newer ones like Risperdal, Zyprexa, Abilify, and seroquel, block the function of neurons (brain cells) that require the neurotransmitter dopamine for their activation. From their origin deep in the brain in the basal ganglia, nerve trunks activated by dopamine reach upward into the frontal lobes and into the emotion-regulating functions in the limbic system. They also reach lower into the brain to the energizing functions in the reticular activating system of the brain." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The patented mental health drugs embedded within this model program include: Risperdal, Zyprexa, seroquel, Geodone, Depakote, Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, Wellbutrin, Zyban, Remeron, Serzone, Effexor, BuSpar, Adderall and Prozac, all manufactured by the above companies. 8. TMAP concluded that the atypical antipsychotic medications Risperdal, produced by Janssen Pharmaceutica, Zyprexa produced by Eli Lilly, and seroquel, produced by AstraZeneca, are the drugs of choice for all first, second and third-line treatments for Schizophrenia. 9." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Bearing in mind these deaths, which occurred during very short trial periods, the FDA's approval of three of the four atypicals cited [Zyprexa, Risperdal, seroquel, and Serdolect] (Serdolect was unapproved) is appalling. It not only condemns the agency's approval process but also raises doubts about the agency's political independence (http://www.thestreetspirit.org/Auqust2005/zvprexa.htm). It is unbelievable that a drug that potentially dangerous, is still being aggressively promoted and prescribed daily for children's use!" - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "Risperdal? seroquel? and Serdolect? as reported to the FDA: 1. One in every 145 patients died but the deaths were not mentioned in the scientific literature. 2. The trials were structured to favor the atypicals and most of the reports were discounted by the FDA as being biased. 3. One in every thirty-five patients in Risperdal trials experienced a serious adverse event, defined by the FDA as life threatening or one that required hospitalization (http://wwwJawyersandsettlements.com/articles/antipsvchotics.htm And then, regarding the specific testing of Zyprexa?" - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "Risperdal? and seroquel?, which are all on the "preferred drug program" list, are those that are the most highly promoted! Antipsychotics Are Being Written For All Kinds Of (Off-Label) Reasons The following statistics were reported in the Ambulatory Pediatric Association (2006 March/April, Vol. 6): In summary, analyses of NAMCS and NHAMCS data demonstrated a nearly fivefold increase in antipsychotic prescribing for 2 - 18-year-old US children between 1995 and 2002. Over 50% of the antipsychotic prescriptions were for a diagnosis for which antipsychotics have not been studied in children." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"TMAP concluded that the atypical antipsychotic medications Risperdal, produced by Janssen Pharmaceutica, Zyprexa produced by Eli Lilly, and seroquel, produced by AstraZeneca, are the drugs of choice for all first, second and third-line treatments for Schizophrenia. 9. TMAP concluded that all newer, patented antidepressants were superior to generics. 10. TMAP concluded that the patented bi-polar drugs were superior to generic drugs." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Massachusetts General Hospital conducted an 8-week trial study that recruited children as young as four years old to be drugged and monitored, including having their blood drawn, to determine whether the drug being tested (quetiapine, aka seroquel) was "well tolerated." Here's more from ClinicalTrials." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Many of these children are being treated with psychiatric medications Zyprexa, Risperdal, Geodon, seroquel, Clozaril, and Abilify. All of these drugs carry black box warnings to alert MD's about the dangers of diabetes. All these drugs would in all likelihood push down magnesium serum levels. Do not, and I scream, do not trust psychologists, psychiatrists and the current drug-pushing culture of education. Dr." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Zyprexa? seroquel? Ability?and Geodon? Although none of these atypical antipsychotics are FDA approved for children, doctors can (and quite often do) prescribe them to kids "off label". In fact, according to a new analysis of a federal survey by Vanderbilt Medical School researchers, "Prescribing atypical antipsychotics for aggressive children is leading the field in a growing pediatric business" (http://www.usatodav.com/news/health/2006-05-01-adult-antipsvchotics-kids x.htm). This is obvious when you consider that Dr." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Thorazine, Mellaril, Risperdal, seroquel, Abilify, Clozapine, Clozaril, Ge-odon, Haldol, Loxitane, Navane, Orap, Zyprexa, etc.). Not only is informed consent a right, it should be every person's duty to themselves, their children and parents (when they act for their children, parents or others) to insist on having all the facts they need to make a fully informed decision regarding their treatment." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "He was left suffering from visual disturbances (like someone who took LSD), Tardive Dyskinesia (involuntary, ticlike, and writhing movements, often permanent—a real brain abnormality/disease usually due to antipsychotic drugs such as the Risperdal, and seroquel he was on), and PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder— not a physical disease) because of the abuse he suffered from the system. While in the institution he was beaten, burned, tied up in bed sheets with a sock stuffed in his mouth, and medicated with the highest amount of psychiatric drugs they could use without killing him..." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "In addition to the Tofranil and ADHD medications, Paul was put on Depakote, Well-butrin, Risperdal, and seroquel, none of whose effects have been studied in children, nor have they been approved by the FDA for use in children. [8] Nobody really knows how any of these drugs work, alone or in combination, and for children forced to take them it is the drug itself that becomes their first real abnormality, their first disease. Paul is out of the institution now, drug-free and being schooled at home, but he did not escape free from damage." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Like the SSRI antidepressants, seroquel has actions on the serotonin system, and it's not surprising that some withdrawal reactions from it might resemble those of SSRI drugs. One case report described a thirty-six-year-old woman on 100 mg a day of seroquel who, upset over her large weight gain on the drug, decided to stop the drug and was advised by her doctor to reduce the dose by half. "After one day, she reported nausea, dizziness, headache and anxiety severe enough to preclude her normal activities." Her symptoms continued despite returning to a higher dose. A more gradual reduction of 12." - Peter R. Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Get the book.) "Over time, so-called atypical neuroleptics or antipsychotics such as Risperdal, seroquel, Zyprexa, Geodon, Ability, and Invega—enthusiastically promoted as safer drugs than the older neuroleptics—seem to increasingly resemble the conventional drugs they were meant to replace. Like the SSRI antidepressants, seroquel has actions on the serotonin system, and it's not surprising that some withdrawal reactions from it might resemble those of SSRI drugs." - Peter R. Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Get the book.)

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