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"Eighteen percent of youth visits to psychiatrists involved antipsychotic treatment; 92% of the antipsychotics prescribed were second generation (from 1993 to 2002). antipsychotic drugs are approved by the FDA for use in children with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and Tourette's syndrome; the only approved antipsychotics for children, however, are Haldol (haloperidol), generic thioridazine, and Orap (pimozide, for Tourette's), which are first-generation antipsychotic drugs. Doctors do have the discretion to prescribe drugs for indications other than those approved by the FDA." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Some doctors are a little concerned, as increasing numbers of children are given antipsychotic drugs for anxiety and conditions like autism. This is because these drugs can promote weight gain and therefore elevate the risk of diabetes. The anti-psychotic Zyprexa, for example, has been implicated in causing weight gain and diabetes. With increased weight, there is increased diabetes. Little research has been done on the long-term impact of Type-2 diabetes on children, over their life span. The chronic complications that follow tend to happen ten to fifteen years after the onset." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"METHODS: Detailed light and ultrastructural examination was carried out on skeletal muscle from three cases of NMS, two associated with recreational drugs (3,4-methlenedioxymethylamphetamine (MDMA, Ecstasy) and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)) and one with antipsychotic drugs (fluoxetine (Prozac) and remoxipride hydrochloride monohydrate (Roxiam)). RESULTS: The muscles were grossly swollen and oedematous in all cases, in one with such severe local involvement that the diagnosis of sarcoma was considered. On microscopy, there was conspicuous oedema." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "The presumption is that choline and lecithin will help correct the imbalance that was created by the traditional antipsychotic drugs." A 2003 study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry concluded that branched-chain amino acids reduced abnormal, involuntary body movements in men with tardive dyskinesia by an average 36.5 percent when compared with a placebo. The amino acids were delivered in the form of Tarvil, a "medical food" powdered drink product. In his article in the International Guide to the World of Alternative Mental Health (www.alternativementalhealth.com), Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Now I am on a regimen of vitamins and antipsychotic drugs. The vitamins, I am told, enhance the good effects of the drugs so that I don't have to take high doses of the drugs in order to remain normal or stable. Before I got on this regimen I had not been taking any vitamins. Using the orthomolecular approach to help treat my schizophrenia, I basically feel normal and have my life back again. —Howard Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic mental disorder that affects approximately 1 percent of the American population." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Abram Hoffer adds that antipsychotic drugs in particular induce "the tranquilizer psychosis, characterized by a decrease in the intensity of the psychotic symptoms," though "induced in its place are apathy, disinterest, poor judgment, difficulty in thinking and concentration and inability to work." The more we learn about how the brain and the rest of the body work, the harder it is to believe that disease and deterioration are inevitable as we age. Dr. Parris Kidd has, like many others, been insisting that "the modern pattern of brain deterioration is definitely not normal." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Studies have shown these antipsychotic drugs, including Zyprexa and Risperdal, do not help patients with Alzheimer's. Instead, the drugs appear to increase their risk of death. In the late 1980s, doctors began prescribing Tambocor and Enkaid, which were approved to treat irregular heartbeats, to patients who did not have these symptoms but had suffered heart attacks. Years later a government study showed that the drugs almost tripled the death rate among such patients. In his 1995 book Deadly Medicine, Thomas J." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Probably more important is the sedating effect of antipsychotics (previously known as "major tranquilizers"), which makes their use for Alzheimer's patients with agitated behavior very seductive. The antipsychotic drugs developed for schizophrenia are actually used just as much or more in elderly patients with dementia. One study of all the studies of antipsychotics for the treatment of behavioral problems in demented patients found data on 3,353 patients randomized to an antipsychotic and 1,757 randomized to placebo that revealed a 1." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Many of these atypical antipsychotic drugs have been tested for use in autism, and some of them show moderately positive effects against autism-spectrum disorders. They help control aggression, hyperactivity, irritability, self-injury, and tantrums. In one study of Risperdal-which is the only drug that has been approved specifically for autism-87 percent of the children experienced at least some degree of improvement. Risperdal. The only FDA-approved autism drug, Risperdal can be very helpful for the kids who really need it." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Neuroleptics (Thorazine, approved for use in 1954, was the first one) are called "first generation" antipsychotic drugs. After six to eight weeks of treatment, about 20% of all patients have a complete remission of their symptoms. Approximately 30% of all treated patients experience a relapse within two years, compared with an 80% relapse rate without treatment. One meta-analysis found that they provide "modest to moderate gains in multiple cognitive domains."50 The problem is that prolonged use often results in symptoms (involuntary movement, tremors, facial grimaces, etc." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"I recommend that patients with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia should not be given antipsychotic drugs unless they have clear forms of psychosis (e.g., seeing or hearing things that are not there or having frank delusions or incorrect beliefs) as outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. NONSTEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS There is some question about whether nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) prevent the development of Alzheimer's. With risks of their own, these medications should not be used for Alzheimer's prevention or treatment." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Betty was a victim of neuroleptic malignant syndrome, a rare adverse reaction to antipsychotic drugs. What causes the syndrome isn't clear, but it appears to be related to a blockage of the dopamine receptors in the hypothalamus and spinal cord, among other areas. Symptoms include rigid muscles, extremely high temperatures, sweating, unstable blood pressure, rapid heartbeat, and abnormal increases in the number of white blood cells. While the mortality rate used to be 10 to 30 percent, it is now greatly reduced to perhaps 5 or 10 percent, largely because of better awareness and detection." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "The worst adverse reaction to antipsychotic drugs is extremely rare but can be lethal. It is called neuroleptic malignant syndrome. I encountered it only once, with another of my clients. Betty was staring up at me—or so I wanted to believe. The closer I looked I saw that there was nothing registering in her eyes. She was merely looking up, without recognition or comprehension. Her body was covered in sweat, her face pallid, her eyes blank and unmoving. She was hooked up to monitors and what looked to be a million dollars' worth of machines. She had a high fever and couldn't move." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "What led to the demise of the lobotomy era was not any newfound compassion or enlightenment, but simply the emergence of antipsychotic drugs that made psychosurgery "redundant."16 In the United States, Community Psychiatry began when the profession took its first tentative steps into office practice between the world wars. The emigration of European psychoanalysts after World War I, and particularly after World War II, led to the establishment of office-based practices, particularly in large eastern cities like New York, Boston, and Philadelphia." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "It has been judged that the overreporting of favorable studies has led to a 2 5 percent overestimate of the effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs, for example. Indeed, the greatest single determinant of an outcome of a published study appears to be whether or not a drug company has sponsored the study.77 Sophisticated psychiatrists know to take what they read of a drug in even the best journals with a sizable grain of salt. " - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Tremors are also a common reaction to antipsychotic drugs, theophylline (for asthma), Dilantin (for epilepsy), and Compazine (a tranquilizer and antinausea medicine), as well as the herbal stimulants ephedra, ginkgo biloba, and ginseng. Tremors sometimes signal alkalosis, a pH imbalance (too little acid in body fluids). Other signs may include muscle twitching, lightheadedness, numbness, and tingling. Alkalosis-related tremors can be a clue to the eating disorder bulimia. The good news is that alkalosis is easily treated." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Ascorbic Acid and the Behavioral Response to Haloperidol: Implications for the Action of antipsychotic drugs," Science, 227(4685), January 25, 1985, p. 438-440. This study examined individual behaviors produced by ascorbic acid in combination with typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs. The combination of antipsychotic drugs with ascorbic acid 250 mg/kg i.p. led to a decrease in open-field parameters when compared with controls. Such in vivo results provide more evidence for ascorbic acids antidopaminergic effects, particularly when combined with antipsychotic drugs. —L." - Gary Null, Ph.D., The Clinician's Handbook of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"As I mentioned above, antipsychotic drugs should not be used to control the behavior of elderly people unless they are really suffering from psychosis (e.g., seeing or hearing-things that aren't there); they have not been shown to be helpful, and they increase the risk of death. The increased risk of stroke in elderly patients with dementia who take olanzepine prompted the Canadian Drug Regulatory authorities to send a letter to doctors in Canada warning them of this potential danger." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"During this time, his physician recommended hospitalization and antipsychotic drugs without actually seeing him. At the time, Michael was taking Dexedrine and recovering from Paxil, which he had stopped less than five weeks earlier. The voices began to subside when he came off the Paxil but lasted for at least five weeks following discontinuation of the drug. Both the rapid onset and the lengthy recovery time are typical of adverse reaction to this class of drugs. Some drug reactions last many months or more." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Because they cannot be used like the antipsychotic drugs to abruptly subdue the individual, they are reserved for the long-term control of so-called bipolar disorder. Nowadays they are given to many children and adults who have but the faintest signs of a maniclike problem, such as irritability and mild mood swings in adults or temper tantrums in children. Lithium was the original mood stabilizer. It was discovered when it was accidentally found that injections of lithium into guinea pigs immediately made them inactive and even flaccid." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Some common antipsychotic drugs such as olanzapine (Zypr-exa) can bring about a weight gain of 30 pounds in a short period of time. These drugs boost dopamine, the hormone that causes food cravings. This class of drugs also decreases levels of leptin, a protein that suppresses appetite. In other words, those who take antidepressants may develop an unnaturally strong appetite that they cannot control by eating more." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Well, let us take a closer look and differentiate first between all those pills, between Minor Tranquillizers, the Antidepressants, and then the Neuroleptics (which should be called antipsychotic drugs). And then let us talk about the secret of psychiatry. MINOR TRANQUILLIZERS In relation to marketing techniques, the minor tranquillizers aim at people who have one kind of a fear or another. So fear is the trick! The full truth is, that there is none of us without covert or overt fears, meaning that there is a gigantic market here. In fact, with fear as a factor, you can sell anything!" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Brandishing such enormous costs makes it a taboo to question whether schizophrenia is a disease and whether antipsychotic drugs help patients. At the same time, the dogmatic view that mental diseases are brain diseases, treatable with chemicals, dehumanizes the denominated patients. Individuals diagnosed schizophrenic and their behavior disappear into a fog of liter-alized metaphors. One psychiatrist who studied Risperdal explained "how research found it treated schizophrenia's delusions better than haloperidol, one of the most widely used antipsychotic drugs." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"It should not be taken together with other substances that also act on the central nervous system, such as alcohol, barbiturates, antidepressants, and antipsychotic drugs. One study found that large amounts of a traditional kava preparation did worsen cognitive impairment caused by alcohol consumption.27 However, at the amounts recommended above, kava does not appear to impair cognitive performance. Kava has also been reported to cause excessive sedation and grogginess when combined with benzodiazepines.28 One study found it was safe to drive after taking kava at the amounts listed above." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"Modern psychiatry argues that once schizophrenics have been stabilized on antipsychotic drugs, they must continue them for life because of risk of relapse. This is a new principle in medicine. One does not keep a patient who has been treated with penicillin for pneumonia on the antibiotic forever, just to prevent a relapse sometime in the future. For schizophrenic patients, it is better to have been well for a long time with a slight risk of relapse than be subjected to continuous drug toxicity." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers and 910 other antihypertensive (blood pressure lowering) drugs, phenothiazines (class of antipsychotic drugs), antihistamines, antidepressants (especially tricyclics), antiarrhythmics (i.e. digoxin). • Lowers blood pressure. • Assists in circulation. • Beneficial in preventing and treating cardiovascular disease and congestive heart failure. • Deficiency can produce congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, angina, mitral valve prolapse, stroke, cardiac arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy, and has been linked to diabetes." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"The symptoms can mimic psychosis or behavioral disorders, and doctors can end up giving these children unneeded antipsychotic drugs", he says (http://usatodav.com/news/health/2006-05-01-atypical-druqs x.htm). If "at least 45 deaths in children" and "1,328 reports of bad side effects, some of them life-threatening" are associated with these drugs, why in the world are they still considered as "preferred" drugs, even for young kids under the age of 5? To the pharmaceutical industry, these unfortunate children are just millions of potential profit centers." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "In 2000, Minnesota spent more than $521,000 buying antipsychotic drugs, most of it on atypicals, for children on Medicaid. In 2005, the cost was more than $7.1 million, a 14-fold increase. The drugs, which can cost $1,000 to $8,000 for a year's supply, are huge sellers worldwide. In 2006, Zyprexa, made by Eli Lilly, had $4.36 billion in sales, Risperdal $4.18 billion and Seroguel, made by AstraZeneca, $3.42 billion. Notice, once again, the most costly drugs, (Zyprexa? Risperdal? and Seroquel?, which are all on the "preferred drug program" list, are those that are the most highly promoted!" - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "Now there are the atypical antipsychotic drugs such as Zyprexa? and finally, the mandatory injections with a new vaccine with no long-term studies to prove its safety! It took years to discover how dangerous Vioxx?was, and you can rest assured that Merck is not about to do any future long-term follow-up studies on the girls in thirteen different countries, unless the FDA required them to! What in the world are they trying to do to our kids? And just for the sake of making a few billion! In fact, drug-industry analyst Steve Brozak of W.B.B. Securities has projected Gardasil?" - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

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