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 "There has been a dramatic increase in the prescribing of antidepressants and antipsychotics that contribute to diabetes. And worst of all, they are now starting way earlier, by targeting pregnant mothers and "very young" children.
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Express Scripts is a company dedicated to making the use of prescription drugs safer and more affordable for plan sponsors and over 50 million members and their families."- Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "Erin Evans is one parent who wishes she had never heard of antipsychotics. Her son, Rex, 13, had trouble focusing in the classroom and was diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder at age 6. He started on an ADHD medication and began hallucinating about worms and bugs in his food. Soon he was also on Prozac for anxiety, but the nervousness and paranoia persisted. At age 8, Rex was given Risperdal by a child psychiatrist. He said the boy probably had obsessive-compulsive disorder, too, Evans says." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) "Yet despite this fallible "science," worldwide sales of psychotropic drugs prescribed to treat "mental disorders," including stimulants antipsychotics and antidepressants, now exceed $80 billion annually. Psychiatrists have been using the DSM to fraudulently claim that mental disorders are the same as physical disorders, and thereby justifying the prescription of powerful, psychotropic drugs, including to very young children." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) |
 "These publications, like most put out by the organizations that advocate prescribing drugs for mental problems, all receive large amounts of funding from the drug companies who manufacture antidepressants and antipsychotics. And these publications are full of photographs showing brain CAT scans or PET scans or have diagrams showing dendrites, axons or other brain parts. These publications look scientific, but they are not. that the brain does respond instantly to all kinds of emotions, behaviors and drugs."- Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "Two hundred years ago, long before antipsychotics were invented, when someone lost his or her mind and was sent to a moral treatment center or state hospital practicing moral treatment, he or she was much more likely to recover than are Americans who lose their minds today.21 If you are a person possessing even an average measure of critical thinking skills or even an average ability to think logically, then these facts will likely surprise you and should concern you. After all, the primary treatment strategy for dealing with mental disorders today is to prescribe medication." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "That is a bold statement, but, using some simple logic again, consider this next set of facts concerning antipsychotics and see if you find them surprising. (1) Those who develop schizophrenia (that is, lose touch with reality) in many third world countries (India, Nigeria and Columbia) which have BOX #P-3 Schizophrenia Defined In the past a person with what we term "schizophrenia" today was said to have "gone mad," "lost his mind" or become crazy, demented, disturbed, unbalanced, unhinged or brainsick." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "Those familiar with the research on antipsychotics and antidepressants cannot keep from seeing the parallels with HRT. My Mother's Life Threatened My mother's physician recommended she begin taking estrogen following her hysterectomy in 1961. However, my father had concerns about her taking hormone supplements, so she avoided those pills for years—until she began experiencing "hot flashes" shortly before she turned 60. Her friends were also on estrogen, and one declared, "Well, I sure don't want to get osteoporosis in old age. I'm going to keep taking my estrogen." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) |
 "When the drugs first came along, a decade ago, manufacturers touted them as being more effective and safer than conventional antipsychotics. 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."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
| "Keep in mind that the above statistics reflect a period of "only 10 months"! We could soon be in serious trouble if we allow the current trend to continue. Both the poor, and foster children, covered under Medicaid, experience the greatest abuse of all. Not only are more being needlessly placed on psychiatric drugs, but also multiple drugs, (greatly increasing the risk)! After all, they are totally free to the recipient, (a perfect selling point)." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.) |
 "Drugs such as antipsychotics, anti-epileptics, tranquilizers, muscle relaxants (such as alprazolam, clonazepam, diazepam, and triazolam), and overactive-btadder drugs (such as oxybutynin, tolterodine, and trospium) may induce dementia-like symptoms over the long term.
It is better if one doctor coordinates all the medicines. Primary-care doctors tend not to be impressed by the therapeutic effects of the currently available antidementia drugs, a feeling I share."- Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) |
 "In a recent study, 29 percent of all drugs used for autism were antipsychotics. This is notably less than the 59 percent of market share controlled by antidepressants, but is far more than the 8 percent share of the third most commonly used type of drugs, anticonvulsants.
This category of medicine sounds scarier than it really is. One reason it sounds scary is because psychosis itself is scary. Therefore, anything that treats psychosis shares some of its fear factor."- Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "These antipsychotics, or neuroleptics, can be quite helpful for many kids, particularly those who are notably unmanageable. The drugs can help these kids come back to reality enough to participate in their Healing Programs. Also, these drugs, in low doses, can often be safely taken on a long-term basis, to help keep neurotransmitters in balance. The goal is always to eventually get kids off these drugs and others, but the greater goal is to help these kids function well, feel well, and live as normally as possible." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "Atypical antipsychotics are referred to as second generation drugs. Their widespread use is well documented; in 2003, Zyprexa (chemical name, olanzapine), was sixth in retail sales in the United States. The advantage of second generation drugs is that they have fewer side effects, especially those that produce the dreaded Parkinson-like symptoms. The problem is that 39% of all patients develop agranulocytosis (a decrease in white blood cells)51 which leads to death in about 1.3% of all cases. Other problems include increases in diabetes and significant weight gain."- Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
 "Prolonged erections can also be a reaction to certain antipsychotics, as well as some antidepressants and antihypertensives. And not surprisingly, they can be a rare overreaction to such drugs as Viagra, Cialis, and Levitra, which are used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED), commonly called impotence. Priapism can also be a sign of carbon monoxide poisoning as well as alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and other drug abuse. In addition, it can signal a spinal cord injury or disease, as well as an injury to the penis."- 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.) |
 "More commonly associated with high-potency antipsychotics, EPRs can have an adverse impact on medication compliance and hospital read-missions. The proposed hypothesis for EPRs occurring with SSRI use involves serotonin's inhibitory actions on extrapyramidal dopamine activity. Other possible contributing factors include pharmacokinetic interactions or drug-disease interactions. EPRs may include dystonias, dyskinesias, akathisia, parkinsonism, exacerbations of Parkinson's disease, and possibly the neuroleptic malignant syndrome."- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Sales of antidepressants and antipsychotics combined totaled $25 billion. Two decades ago, sales were at $500 million. In the mental health arena, these and other drugs are the pillars of conventional treatment for many conditions. The power and influence of the pharmaceutical industry is enormous, and there's no end in sight. This comes despite recent governmental warnings about the dangers of psychiatric drugs and continuing strong evidence regarding the benefits of nutritional, psychosocial, and environmental therapies. Even those in the medical establishment are recognizing the problem." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "According to a 2006 study published in the Archives of General Psychology, there was no reported clinical advantage to the more expensive and highly touted second-generation antipsychotics when compared with the first. In a commentary in the same issue, Dr. Jeffrey A." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "As mentioned earlier in this chapter, although not approved by the FDA for Alzheimer's disease, other drugs, including antipsychotics, are being used to treat associated psychotic and behavioral symptoms. This practice has become a cause for concern by many practitioners. 5. HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY. "Research on the effects of estrogen replacement therapy in the prevention of AD has been very exciting," Dr. Khalsa says. "Hippocampal plasticity and nerve growth factors are apparently estrogen-sensitive." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "He came to see me at fifty-one years old, after a parade of psychiatrists and psychiatric medication for bipolar disease—mood stabilizers like Lithium, Depakote, and Abilify; antipsychotics like Zyprexa and Clozaril; antiseizure medication like Lamictal and Neurontin, and stimulants like Provigil, Adderall, and Ritalin; and even Parkinson's drugs like Requip to raise his dopamine.
Even with a multidrug cocktail he couldn't overcome his depression. He complained that his depression stole his life. Many days he could not get out of bed,go to work, or focus."- Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) |
| "Galactorrhea can be a reaction to both prescription and illicit drugs, including birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy, antipsychotics, antidepressants, antihypertensives, marijuana, opiates, and steroids. A milky discharge can also be a sign you've been eating a lot of phytoestrogen-containing herbs, such as nettle, fennel, blessed thistle, anise, and fenugreek seed. The estrogen in these herbs can cause milk to flow. Leaking milk can also signal several hormone-related conditions, including a pituitary tumor (prolactinoma) and hypothyroidism. (See Appendix I." - 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.) |
 "A case-control study of endometrial cancer after antipsychotics exposure in premenopausal women. Oncology 64, 116-123.
234. Friberg, E., Mantzoros, C. S., and Wolk, A. (2007). Diabetes and risk of endometrial cancer: A population-based prospective cohort study. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 16, 276-280.
235. Papanas, N., Giatromanolaki, A., Galazios, G., Maltezos, E., and Sivridis, E. (2006). Endometrial carcinoma and diabetes revisited. Eur. J. Gynaecol. Oncol. 27, 505-508.
236. Schouten, L. J., Goldbohm, R. A., and van den Brandt, P. A. (2004)."- Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
 "Sparfloxacin, moxifloxacin, and gatifloxicin can interact with cardiac drugs, typical antipsychotics, or tricyclic antidepressants to impair the rhythm of the heart.
The fourth-generation quinolone drugs, which are used for the same purposes as the earlier generations as well as for abdominal and pelvic infections, include trovafloxacin (Trovan) and alatrofloxacin (Trovan IV).
Trovafloxacin, which was associated with fourteen known cases of liver failure, has prompted the FDA to recommend limiting its use to life-threatening situations and for no more than fourteen days."- J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "For example, studies have shown that peasants in Indian villages who have been diagnosed as schizophrenic and are treated with chlorpromazine, the original antipsychotic, which is dirt cheap, and receive family support actually do better in terms of having fewer psychotic symptoms than Americans who get expensive new-generation antipsychotics and traditional Western psychiatric care. Another example is Nexium, "the purple pill," which works no better for gastric reflux than older medications like Prilosec, even though it costs much more. Drugs cost twice as much in the U.S." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) |
| "Some doctors may prescribe the older, first-generation antipsychotics to notably unmanageable autistic children, but this is something I never do. The old, major tranquilizer neuroleptics just have too many side effects, and no special benefits. These drugs include Thorazine, Haldol, and Stelazine.
Anticonvulsive Medications for Autism
A subset of autistic children suffer from co-morbid seizure disorders, including epilepsy, and these meds can be uniquely helpful for them.
However, antiseizure medications also help a number of kids who don't have seizures." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
| "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.) |
| "For more information on the black-box — warning on antipsychotics, go to the US Food and Drug Administration Web site at www. fda.gov/cder/drug/advisory/antipsychotics.htm.
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•Prescription drugs can adversely affect memory. If you are taking any medications, ask your doctor whether memory loss is a known side effect.
•Low thyroid function can also cause poor memory and concentration. With a simple blood test, your doctor can check thyroid levels." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) |
| "Their common usage is demonstrated by the fact that in 2003, antipsychotics were the sixth leading category of drugs in retail sales.
A word of caution: evaluation of these drugs is difficult. In addition to the problems raised in our discussion of double-blinded studies of depression,48 it turns out that patient nonadherence rates ate very high. In other words, on average about one-third of all patients stop taking their medications,49 probably because of real or perceived (is there any difference?) side effects such as movement disorders, weight gain, or emotional dullness." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
 "Through Millie, and eventually hundreds of other patients, I vicariously entered the murky and exotic world of mood stabilizers, SSRIs, benzodiazepines, MAOI inhibitors, and antipsychotics. On a daily basis, I saw the Paxils and Prozacs and Neurontins and Zyprexas and Klonopins and Effexors.
"Do you want to see the device that Scotland Yard inserted into my vagina last night?" Millie asked me in a sort of brogue—her Irishness had washed out somewhat in the decade she'd been in the States—on my first day of work as a case manager at an agency providing housing to people with mental illness."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "American adults have such entrenched conditions, which are treated—for those who receive treatment—by antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, and antianxiety agents. Meanwhile, more than 10 percent of American women are taking antidepressants alone. Most likely, Julie's complaints fall into "that considerable gray area between feelings and behaviors that constitute a disorder and those of a similar nature that are not severe or specific enough to merit a diagnosis," as Psychiatric News, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association, put it. "A few examples: shyness vs." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "It's a law that applies to cold medicine, antibiotics, and interferon, as well as antidepressants and antipsychotics. Take what you need, when you need it, and judiciously set the rest aside. Respect the power and complexity, as well as the limitations, of the drugs. And I would add, as Dr. Roper was saying: Take the least amount of the drugs you need, and maximize other, human ways to solve problems. If there's any lesson to be gleaned from the recent history of psychiatry, it is, in T. M." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
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