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"Eric Harris, the leader in the tragedy in Colorado in April, 1999, was taking the psychiatric drug Luvox at the time of the murders. Luvox is approved for children and youth with obsessive compulsive disorder, but doctors often give it for depression, since it is in the same class as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. While psychiatric drug use is only one of the contributing factors to the episodes of school violence, it is one of the most easily prevented factors. There is strong scientific evidence to support the view that these drugs should not be given to children and teenagers." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"It is in fact standard fare to be taking some sort of psychiatric drug in college these days. Professors have told me, after they've done informal polling of their students, that a third to a half have taken psychiatric drugs. The chief of Mental Health Services at Harvard wrote about antidepressants and attention deficit drugs in The New England Journal of Medicine: "Increasing numbers of students, and sometimes their families, request medication to provide an 'edge,' even if the students have no clinically significant impairment of functioning." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The awful thing about it is the patient doesn't know he's taking a psychiatric drug. The medical doctor tells him it's a headache pill. There is even the case of a person who has a pain in some part of the body ending up taking a cocktail of drugs. Before you know it, they can't figure out why he is so sick; after all, he is taking 13 different kinds of medication, and it isn't really solving the problem." "Do you know how people become convinced they have to take psychiatric drugs? What is the marketing trick of the industry or the doctor, in general? " Dr." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The size and reach of the psychiatric drug industry is staggering. It is far, far greater than most psychiatric practitioners realize and certainly greater than the drug companies would want you to know. There are various ways to measure the dimensions of the enterprise: • 3 3 million Americans were prescribed at least one psychiatric drug in 2004, up from 21 million in 1997.13 • The spending on antidepressants rose from $5.1 billion in 1997 to $13.5 billion in 2006; and on antipsychotics from $1.3 billion in 1997 to 11.5 billion in 2006." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "It is the belief that such a cure-all agent exists that has created the massiveness of the psychiatric drug industry in the first place. The other caveat is that the approaches explored in the coming chapters require earnest work and a strong commitment to get better. These treatments and approaches require action instead of passivitythe patient can no longer just be a vassal—a mere recipient of a pill— but must take the lead and be in charge of their own treatment and their own recovery. This requires, unfortunately, sweat and bother." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"While psychiatric drug use is only one of the contributing factors to the episodes of school violence, it is one of the most easily prevented factors. There is strong scientific evidence to support the view that these drugs should not be given to children and teenagers." Dennis Clarke, chair of the Executive Advisory Board of the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, expands our understand of drug-induced violence to include some well known mass murderers. "In Austin, Texas in 1966, Charles Whitman went up into the Texas Tower, the first school shooting in the United States." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"FDA Approval Does Not Mean That a Drug Is Safe or Even Highly Effective FDA records contain thousands of reports of severe and life-threatening reactions to almost every psychiatric drug in current use. With respect to each of these drugs, the agency has attempted to determine if, on balance, the drug is sufficiently useful to outweigh its potential dangers. But this evaluation does not necessarily mean that the drug is safe. Indeed, determination of whether the drug's potential benefits outweigh its potential risks is, of necessity, highly subjective." - Peter R. Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Get the book.) "When a loved one dies from the effects of a psychiatric drug, grieving, outraged families often demand to know, "Did the FDA know it could be lethal? Should our doctor have known it could kill?" Especially during the drug approval process, the FDA is largely dependent on information that it receives from drug companies. Consider the following circumstances, however. The fact that a person experienced an "adverse event" (e.g., a headache or a fall) while taking a drug does not mean that this event was caused by the drug." - Peter R. Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Get the book.) "It is worth emphasizing that the psychiatric drug you are taking may be impairing your alertness, mental acuity, emotional awareness, social sensitivity, or creativity without your realizing it. It may be causing adverse physical or mental effects that you are unable to recognize or appreciate. Furthermore, since these drug-induced symptoms resemble the impairments associated with psychiatric problems, it's easy for you, your doctor, or your family to mistakenly blame them on emotional problems." - Peter R. Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Get the book.) "Why Gradual Withdrawal Is Better Than Sudden Withdrawal The minute a psychiatric drug enters your bloodstream, your brain activates mechanisms to compensate for the drug's impact.1 These compensatory mechanisms become entrenched after operating continuously in response to the drug. If the drug is rapidly removed, they do not suddenly disappear. On the contrary, they have free rein for some time. Typically, these compensatory mechanisms cause physical, cognitive, and emotional disturbances—which are collectively referred to as the withdrawal syndrome." - Peter R. Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Get the book.)

"A seizure, serious rash, headache, gastrointestinal problem, liver disorder, joint or muscle pain, abnormal bleeding, or treatment-resistant infection while taking almost any psychiatric drug is another signal for an immediate evaluation and may require cessation of the medication. Loss of consciousness, faintness on sitting or standing up, dizziness and falling are wake-up calls for an immediate reevaluation of medications. Cognitive changes such as memory difficulties and confusion signal an immediate need to evaluate the medication regimen." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"It doesn't take long for the person to develop a very nasty drug abuse habit from where they started out with a psychiatric drug." "What drives the patient to do additional drugs and go to self-prescribed medications? " Dr. Channing Bolick: "The idea is that if you don't feel as well as you should, there is a chemical solution to this problem. So if the psychiatrist can't find the right chemical for them, they start to create their own little pharmacy at home. The drug industry has never taken responsibility for any of this nor do they acknowledge what goes on." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Your general practitioner may be enamored with mythical biochemical imbalances and is likely to urge you to take a psychiatric drug." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Nonetheless, the agency continues to minimize the mental devastation and behavioral abnormalities caused by every class of psychiatric drug, for example, by not recognizing that antidepressants cause suicidal behavior in all ages of adults. Drug companies often conceal from the FDA, the medical profession, and the public the harmful psychological or emotional psychiatric reactions caused by their products." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Ritalin, the most commonly prescribed psychiatric drug for children, is currently administrated to one in every 30 children between the ages of 5 and 18, but Ritalin is classified in the same group of drugs as opium, morphine and cocaine. Side effects of its use include: stunted growth, weight loss, maniac behavior, future drug dependence, heart palpitations, cardiac arrhythmia, anxiety, insomnia, violent behavior and even death.15* Violence is one result of this, anxiety another." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "I can't begin to tell you how many people come to me who are on a maintenance dose of Prozac or Zoloft or some other kind of psychiatric drug and this should be deemed malpractice. No one has a deficiency of Prozac in the body. There is no such thing as a maintenance dose of those drugs. The doctors scare the patient into conforming to this maintenance dose thing." "Do you know of any other marketing tricks of the pharmaceutical industry? " Dr. Channing Bolick: "I saw one recently in a magazine that had cartoon characters shaped as eggs." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"He had no idea that his psychiatric drug had anything to do with what was happening to him. • Although he was getting worse, he at times thought he was doing better than ever, especially when he became euphoric and went on spending sprees. • Ultimately, he developed compulsive, destructive behaviors that took over and ruined his life. DID HARRY "GET AWAY WITH IT?" HARRY HIMSELF FOUND it hard to believe that a drug could have made him do such terrible things, and he did not advocate well for his cause." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The FDA received tens of thousands of adverse event reports for Prozac yet today it remains a top selling psychiatric drug, pulling in tens of billions of dollars during its 18 years on the market. In fact, by 1998, Eli Lilly's Prozac held the dubious distinction of garnering the first place slot at the FDA for receiving the most adverse event reports for any of the more than 3,200 drugs on the market. The same year, the "wonder" drug, Prozac, also took home first place for racking up the most reported "serious" side effects." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "But defense attorneys never had to make the decision about using the psychiatric drug information in the defense of Jason Hoffman, nor debate the all important question. Ten months after pleading guilty to the charges, Hoffman committed suicide in his jail cell. But a startling turn of events by our good neighbors across the sea may be, by default, the nail in the coffin that ends the need for debate. In September 2005, the U.K." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.) "Thomas Laughren, a doctor who had participated in the 1991 hearings and now one of the reviewers and team leader for psychiatric drug products in the FDA's Division of Neuropharmacological Drug Products, admitted that of the 15 placebo-controlled clinical trials that evaluated SSRIs for treating depression in children and adolescents, only three of the trials could show positive results; the other 12 proved the mind-altering drugs were no more effective in treating the alleged mental disorder than the placebo." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"So, for many, "not using a psychiatric drug means they never had such a flaw at all," he says. People may not want to take these medications because they think they will face harsh judgment from others, says sociologist Bernice A. Pescosolido, director of the Consortium. She recounts the story of a friend who, following her divorce, took her fifth grader to see a therapist. After the doctor prescribed an antidepressant, the boy said, "That's it! I can't run for president." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Did you know that in the last ten years, virtually every violent act committed in schools was perpetrated by a person who either had taken or was currently taking a psychiatric drug? Finally, the research has become so compelling that there are warnings saying that certain psychiatric drugs actually increase the propensity to commit suicide." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Brain plasticity looms as a concern in the long-term use of any psychiatric drug. It is, however, an area of great neglect. The industry does not sponsor studies of long-term use, even though it supports and popularizes the practice of lifelong dosing. (When it does underwrite pediatric studies, about 25 percent show that either the dose must be changed to prevent adverse events noted among children, or that the drug did not work at all.) No one really knows just what that will mean for a new generation, who will be relying not just on SSRI drugs, but also on Ritalin and its imitators." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"The precedent for the practice of creating a disease as a means of manufacturing demand for a psychiatric drug got its start with Ritalin and its amphetamine cousins. As we showed earlier, it was only after the drug had been found to improve focus and manageability in children did the ADD/ADHD diagnoses appear and quickly begin evolving to include growing numbers of children. With huge profits being made, Ritalin was ripe for challengers. And who conquered it in terms of market share? A drug already deemed too dangerous for adults." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "If you are a parent, then, and bring your child to a physician out of concern over a problem you have been told he may need to be given a psychiatric drug for, that physician may be operating under the influence of information of no better quality than the Strattera advertisement in Family Circle." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "All such abnormalities/diseases must either be an independent, coincidental disease (such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, or asbestosis), or due to a psychiatric drug or drugs they have been on. The litany of side-effects for every drug in the Physician's Desk Reference are always a result of the drug exposure, never of the psychiatric "disease" itself, for the simple reason, that none are actual diseases. It is this fraud, among others, that the FDA has been an eager party to." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Following is an extract of an article written by Ben Hansen, originally intended for publication in The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry & Psychology (ICSPP) quarterly newsletter, forwarded to me by Vince Boehm: The purpose of my FOIA lawsuit in Michigan is not simply to embarrass one pharmaceutical manufacturer - my aim is to gain access to data that will blow the lid off the entire psychiatric drug industry. [MY NOTE: Something that in my opinion is far overdue!] The lawsuit, "Ben Hansen vs." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"A subsidiary of Novartis, Sandoz Laboratories, introduced the world to LSD in 1938, marketing it as a psychiatric drug named Delysid. This same drug company also created saccharin, the artificial chemical sweetener. Drug giant Merck pioneered the commercial manufacture of morphine from opium and was a heavy pusher and marketer of cocaine. Merck also patented MDMA (Ecstasy, the rave drug). After World War II, Merck also began producing pesticides and food preservatives." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Additionally, nine out of 10 children who go to see a psychiatrist leave with a psychiatric drug prescription. When this frightening statistic is combined with the fact that 100 percent of the 10th graders tested under TeenScreen at Hoover High in Fresno, Calif. Had "positive diagnostic impression," you are looking at some terrifying results. Todd Wilson What Is TeenScreen's Real Motive? The entire premise for TeenScreen, as presented to the public, is to be a "suicide prevention tool." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

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