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"Remember when Tom Cruise had a meltdown and started jumping on Oprah's couch and when he shouted at Matt Lauer that he didn't know anything about psychiatric drugs? In the aftermath of those episodes, an anchorwoman from the television show Dateline asked me to provide a psychiatric perspective on Cruise's comments. The show never aired (it got bumped by the Iraq War), but the conversation I had with the anchor-woman as I sat perched on a high stool waiting for the cameraman to get set up was memorable." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Prozac, Ritalin, and Xanax, like most psychiatric drugs, overstimulate particular neurotransmitter systems either by increasing the output of a neurotransmitter or by preventing its removal from the synapses between nerve cells. Prozac, for example, overstimulates a chemical messenger called serotonin by blocking its removal from the synapse. The brain reacts initially by shutting down the release of serotonin and then by reducing the number of receptors that can respond to the serotonin.3 These self-destructive processes in the brain are relatively easy to research." - Peter R. Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Get the book.) "Because Robert had been using psychiatric drugs for many years, it took him more than a year to complete the withdrawal. But with a brain and mind free of drugs, Robert realized that his suspicions had been correct. He was better able to manage his life and to fulfill his potential without mind-altering drugs. Although his life still had its ups and downs, it felt wonderful to know that they were his ups and downs rather than those induced by drugs. Pamela began taking an antidepressant, Elavil, thirty years ago when she was in her teens." - Peter R. Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Get the book.) "And innumerable malpractice suits are threatened or brought each year against medical doctors, including psychiatrists, as a result of damage done by their prescription of psychiatric drugs and electroshock. Meanwhile, very few psychotherapists are sued by patients or their families for any reason. Many psychiatrists have multiple lawsuits brought against them; few psychotherapists have any. As proof of this point, the malpractice insurance premiums paid by psychiatrists are much higher than those paid by psychotherapists." - Peter R. Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Get the book.)

"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. In 2005, American Psychiatric Association President Dr. Steven S. Sharfstein issued this assessment: "The practice of psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry have different goals and abide by different ethics. Big Pharma is a business, governed by the motive of selling products and making money." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Breg-gin. "Psychiatric drugs were in widespread use as early as 1954 and 1955, but the hospital population did not decline until nearly ten years later, starting in 1963. That year the federal government first provided disability insurance coverage for mental disorders. The states could at last relieve themselves of the financial burden by refusing admission to new patients and by discharging old ones. The discharged patients, callously abandoned by psychiatry, received a small federal check for their support in other facilities, such as nursing or board and care homes." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "The Citizens Commission on Human Rights reports that a review of US school shootings from 1998 to 2007 indicates that 38 percent of the perpetrators were taking psychiatric drugs. In Columbine, Colorado, Eric Harris was on the antidepressant Luvox when he and Dylan Klebold killed twelve classmates and a teacher, wounded twenty-three others, and killed themselves. Six years later, in 2005, Jeff Weise was taking Prozac when he shot and killed nine people before committing suicide." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Although the toxicology report ruled out psychiatric drugs in the body of 2007 Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui, his roommate reportedly told the media that Cho's morning routine including taking prescription medicine. This may mean that he had been taking medication but stopped before his tragic massacre of thirty-three people on the university campus." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"It appears that we have replaced reliance on God, other people, and ourselves with reliance on medical doctors and psychiatric drugs. The ultimate source of guidance and inspiration is no longer life itself with its infinite resources but biopsychiatry with its narrow view of human nature. This view of ourselves is a most astonishing one. It suggests that most if not all of our psychological, emotional, and spiritual problems are "psychiatric disorders" best treated by specialists who prescribe psychoactive drugs." - Peter R. Breggin and David Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Get the book.)

"Gorman had become a popular hire for the manufacturers of psychiatric drugs. He was the same psychiatrist who had appeared on the morning news to tell America that Celexa could treat "compulsive shopping disorder." He had also recently helped boost the sales of Paxil, another antidepressant, when he provided sound bites for television news programs while in the pay of the drug's maker, GlaxoSmithKline. Professor Gorman's message on that corporate speaking tour was that worrying too much might actually be a disease, one that was easily treatable with drugs like Paxil." - 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.) "But the brighter mood, better report card, and growing circle of friends promised in the advertisements for such psychiatric drugs never came to Peter. When he was a junior in high school, he dropped out of school. Aaron, the younger boy, got his first psychiatric diagnosis in the second grade. Sandy ties his diagnosis back to the day of a class trip and an unwritten note of appreciation. Aaron's teacher asked students each to write a thank-you note to the group that had hosted the outing. Aaron refused." - 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.)

"Make no mistake about it," writes one critic, "every prescription written for powerful, mind-altering psychiatric drugs is a government backed experiment."54 Indeed the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical community is at the heart (should we say brain?) of the matter. "The way to sell drugs," according to one bioethi-cist, "is to sell psychiatric illness."55 According to the clever New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd: "The more anxious the companies feel about profit, the more generalized the generalized anxiety get." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"This is bizarre and arbitrary, as some psychiatric drugs need a month or longer to take effect, and most psychiatric illnesses, of course, are long-term, if not chronic. (In response to these concerns, the FDA for a brief period in 2005 called on the industry to submit both short-term [six to eight weeks] and long-term [greater than six months] efficacy data on new drugs. This policy, however, was reversed by a unanimous 12-0 vote by an FDA advisory panel, which heard testimony by a coalition of ten drug companies asking them to overturn it." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "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.) "In July 2006, of the ten most popular online searches for pharmaceutical and medical products, six concerned psychiatric drugs or psychiatric disease. (They were, in order, Lexapro, Cymbalta, Zoloft, Wellbutrin [an antianxiety agent], Effexor, and the illness of depression itself.)30 Among people who have visited a medication site, depression is by far the most researched medical condition, with 2.9 million unique visitors over a three-month period in 2006. The next most researched conditions? Bipolar disorder and insomnia.31 To further the ascent of Prozac et al." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "It was not at all unusual for my clients to be taking three, four, five, or six different types of psychiatric drugs in a given day—a combination not unlike the number of street drugs many of them had once been addicted to. I am not a psychiatrist. My job was first as a counselor at, and then director of, a number of clinical and residential programs, and finally as a senior administrator at social services agencies and a researcher at medical schools. But I became oddly enthralled by the ongoing parade of medications that entered my clients' mouths (and sometimes their arms, via injection)." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Pink or reddish urine can also be a reaction to several psychiatric drugs, as well as anthraquinone-containing anticancer agents. Unfortunately, pink or reddish pee does sometimes signal blood in the urine—medically known as hematuria. It can, for example, be a sign of an injury to the kidney. But the blood can originate anywhere along the urinary tract. It can be an important early warning sign of several serious kidney, liver, or bladder conditions, including infections, stones, cysts, tumors, and even cancer." - 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.)

"Arecent analysis has found that Americans are conflicted about psychiatric drugs. Although the majority say they believe these medications are effective, they still would not use them. Although people are becoming more understanding of mental illness, there is still a stigma associated with taking antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, according to a report from researchers at the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research at Indiana University, Bloomington. The report was funded, in part, by the National Institute of Mental Health." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Collins is not the only physician in the state to be shaken by the rising number of psychiatric drugs taken by Iowa's children. "We're seeing kids on three, four, five, six drugs," said Dr. Jeffrey Lobas, the director of fourteen clinics in Iowa that specialize in children's health. "It's what I see as a common practice." I first met Dr. Lobas, who is also a professor at the University of Iowa, at a pediatrics conference in Washington in May 2005. We both were attending an early Sunday-morning session for physicians on how to treat attention deficit disorders in preschoolers." - 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.)

"Channing Bolick: "People who are doing psychiatric drugs are often doing other forms of self medication as well that their doctor doesn't know about. Maybe even doing alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. This makes the whole thing more dangerous. 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." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Snead: "I'm particularly shocked when I look at psychiatric drugs. There are people running around totally oblivious to what is going on in their environment - like zombies. I get patients with whom I am trying to carry on a conversation, and moments later they have trouble really understanding a question about their case. Then later, I have to repeat what I went over on the first visit. They become a nuisance to themselves and to others, too, since they are not operating on all cylinders." "Do you treat quite a few older people in your clientele today? " Kevin L. Snead: "Yes, I do." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The year 2003 marked the first time that Americans spent more to treat their children with Ritalin, Prozac, and other psychiatric drugs than they spent on children's antibiotics or asthma medications. That milestone was reported by analysts from Medco Health Solutions, who noted that there had been a startling 369 percent rise in just three years in spending on Ritalin and other drugs for attention disorders in children not yet old enough for kindergarten. "Since I went back to work, he started doing the baby thing," the mother of a young boy was telling the physician over the speakerphone." - 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.)

"In fact, one could write entire books on the side effects of psychiatric drugs, and we, the authors, predict that there will come the day when those books will be written. 192 Grasso, Rothschild, Genest, and Bates, What Do We Know About Medication Errors in Inpatient Psychiatry, Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, 2003, p. 397 193 Idem. 194 Leape LL, et al: The nature of adverse events in hospitalized patients: Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study II, N Engl. J Med 324: pp. 377 - 384, 1991 SUICIDE The most horrible side effect is of course suicide. Even among children!" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"More than 160,000 got at least four psychiatric drugs at the same time. Taking drugs has become so commonplace among children and teenagers that young people talk casually about needing to "adjust their meds" in response to a rough week at school or a bad breakup, and instead of snorting or smoking illegal substances at parties, they trade prescription pills. Clearly, some kids benefit enormously from taking psychiatric medications. SSRIs, antipsychotics, and stimulants all have a place in treating mental illness, which can devastate children's lives and tear families apart." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "More than coo,000 were prescribed at least three medications. More than 160,000 got at least four psychiatric drugs at the same time. Taking drugs has become so commonplace among children and teenagers that young people talk casually about needing to "adjust their meds" in response to a rough week at school or a bad breakup, and instead of snorting or smoking illegal substances at parties, they trade prescription pills. Clearly, some kids benefit enormously from taking psychiatric medications." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Because most children will be referred for medical evaluation, virtually assuring the prescription of psychiatric drugs, the country is being threatened by what Alaskan attorney Jim Gottstein, director of PsychRights, has called a drugging dragnet. Minnesota pediatrician Karen Effrem has been leading the fight against proposed "TeenScreening" in our schools—only to find that her own state is moving toward "toddler screening," and even "infant screening." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Among those whose drug reactions drive them more toward depression and apathy, countless lives spellbound by psychiatric drugs plod along in lackluster ways: a man loses interest in his wife, a mother withdraws from her children, an artist loses her creativity, or a young boy loses his sense of humor and the twinkle in his eye. Many medication spellbound people become more irritable, less optimistic, or more emotionally shallow, without realizing that they have changed." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"He has cared for many children throughout his practice and witnessed first hand the effects of psychiatric drugs on children. He is President of Team Physicians of Indiana, PC, and Doctors Plus, PC where doctors of Medicine, Chiropractic and Physical Therapist work together in the same office. A unique approach to today's health care problems. "A few words about your education? " Dr. Benoit O. Choiniere: "I graduated cum laude172 with Research Honor at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa in 1988." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Although people are becoming more understanding of mental illness, there is still a stigma associated with taking antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, according to a report from researchers at the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research at Indiana University, Bloomington. The report was funded, in part, by the National Institute of Mental Health. THE STUDY In the study, the research team reviewed data from the 1998 General Social Survey of 1,400 Americans. They found that..." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"More recently, Organon has got into the booming area of psychiatric drugs, mainly antidepressants. Organon has a particular relationship with Pfizer. In June 2003, Akzo Nobel's Diosynth business signed a multi-year contract with Pfizer Inc. The deal involves supplying Pfizer with the active pharmaceutical ingredient for the commercial production of their growth hormone disorder drug. The agreement was broader than this, because it entailed agreements on marketing and PR. Between them, the two companies fund ObgynWorld.com and the magazine Obgyn." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

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