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"Psychotropic drugs— Marketing—United States—History. 3. psychotropic drugs industry—Moral and ethical aspects—United States. 4. Biological psychiatry—United States—History. 5. Psychiatry—United States—History. 6. Deceptive advertising—United States. [DNLM: 1. Mental Disorders—drug therapy—United States. 2. Drug Industry—United States. 3. Drug Therapy—utilization—United States. 4. Psychiatry— trends—United States. WM 402 B234C 2008] I. Title. RC483.B28 2008 616.89' 18—dc2 2 2007028541 www.pantheonbooks." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Then, if everything else is not sufficient to bring about improvement, I would use psychotropic drugs if I had to, but I would try to keep them at the lowest possible dose and I would use nutrients and other dietary supplements to minimize their side effects." In 1955, Dr. Abram Hoffer and several colleagues published a paper in which they showed that nicotinic acid lowered cholesterol levels but that you had to give 3,000 mg per day." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In 2004, a report said that more than a million American kids were taking psychotropic drugs, and 11 million antidepressant prescriptions were written for them.84 When I asked a troubled teenager, himself taking antidepressants, if he talked about his medication with his peers, many of whom were also taking psychiatric drugs, he said no. "Is that because you're a little embarrassed about it?" I asked. "No, no. It's just not that interesting to anybody . . . Just kind of boring," he said." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Doctors treating children with mental disorders often do just that, prescribing psychotropic drugs for children for uses not approved by the FDA, in many cases cheered on by representatives of the companies that make the drugs that the doctors are prescribing. A study of children in Tennessee's Managed Care program for Medicare showed that the number of prescriptions for antipsychotics doubled in a five-year period ending in 2001. During this time, one in every one hundred children became a new user of an antipsychotic." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Atkins, "be considered before the use of nonphysiologic psychotropic drugs, which have more potential for toxicity." Acupuncturists also have had a great deal of success with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In some situations, their treatment has proven to be more effective than medication. Patient Story: Bulimia_ The woman was 4 7'years old, a psychotherapist with a doctoral degree who had been treating patients with eating disorders for almost 15 years. She herself had bulimia—about five binge-purge episodes per day for the last 34 years." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Another group of drugs known to inhibit coenzyme Qi0-dependent enzymes is a class of psychotropic drugs including phenothiazines and tricyclic antidepressants. We often see patients in our practices with arrhythmia, congestive heart Adverse Events Reported for Long-Term Usage of Coenzyme Qio in 5,000 Patients Epigastric discomfort: 0.39 percent Decreased appetite: 0.23 percent Nausea: 0.16 percent 4. Diarrhea: 0.12 percent 5. Elevated LDH: rare 6. Elevated SGOT: rare failure, and cardiomyopathy that have also been on these drugs over a long period of time." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Clinical studies have shown that coenzyme Q10 supplementation can improve EKGs in patients taking these psychotropic drugs, and we recommend its use to help offset their potential adverse effects. Another area of possible concern is the use of coenzyme Q10 in patients taking Coumadin, a commonly prescribed blood thinner. Coumadin is used to prevent blood clotting in atrial fibrillation, valvular problems, and other medical problems where clot formation (embolus) is a concern." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Ribose has been used in patients taking all forms of cardiovascular, neuromuscular, and psychotropic drugs, all without report of adverse reactions. Many of the more common cardiovascular drugs, most notably inotropic agents, have been studied in association with ribose. In every case, there has been no effect on the action of the drug. With studies in inotropic agents, the metabolic action of ribose in cellular energy metabolism actually helped the drug perform better. Further, ribose does not cause any hemodynamic (circulatory) effects or cause changes in blood pressure, either up or down." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Treating autism and ADHD with drugs that affect only the brain is an outdated concept. psychotropic drugs can be helpful, but they're only one part of the overall picture of proper medication. When I medicate autism and ADHD, I do not medicate them as strictly neuropsychiatric disorders. That approach is too narrow. I must also treat the various physical disorders that underlie the psychiatric symptoms. Physical problems also create mental symptoms in disorders other than autism and ADHD." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "I prefer not to use psychotropic drugs, and I generally don't need to use them. Occasionally, though, I think they are quite helpful. In this regard, I am somewhat different than the integrative physicians who have a strong disaffection for almost all psychotropic meds, including atypical antipsychotics and the newer antidepressants. Frankly, I believe that this anti-medication approach is not always driven by pure clinical practicality, but sometimes by overly strict adherence to a philosophy of naturalism." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Besides the psychotropic drugs, sleeping pills, and pain pills, what other drugs have the most side effects? " Ulrich Sommer: "The medications that stop the growth of cells, such as the cancer therapies (chemotherapy), have disastrous side effects. And another is the misuse of antibiotics. In the seventies, one would take an antibiotic medication for practically every little cold. But after a while, when you receive too many antibiotics, the body becomes less resistant against bacteria. Today, more and more complex antibiotics have to be given in order to be effective." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Children's problems constitute a growing market for psychotropic drugs. Ritalin for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has a long history (Conrad, 1975) but perhaps now can be seen as a pioneer drug for children's behavior prob- lems. While the public may be ambivalent about using drugs for troubled children (McLeod et al., 2004), a wide array of psychotropic drugs are now prescribed for children, especially stimulants and antidepressants (Olfson et al., 2002; Thomas et al., 2006). Whatever the benefits or risks, this has become big business for the drug industry." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"At least, one should have some sort of an opinion on vaccinations, antibiotics and psychotropic drugs - drugs that affect the mental health of the child. Let us take up the controversial subject of antibiotics first. What are usually not known about antibiotics are its side effects. The repeated course and overuse of antibiotics can end in chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, and even cancer.127 Antibiotics, once the talk of the day, a medication which saved many lives and which is useful in killing some deadly bacteria infections, is today overused by many doctors." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Ulrich Sommer: "Tranquilizers and so called psychotropic drugs without doubt, then sleeping pills, painkillers." "In simplified words, how would you describe the effects of those medications? " Ulrich Sommer: "It appears in the beginning, that those medications have a kind of protective effect. What really happens is the patient is inhibited from facing reality. Can he solve his problems this way? Absolutely not. The patient further declines, both physically and emotionally by the influence of these chemicals. He feels the effects of the environment are not as strong as before." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"In 2 002, doctors wrote nearly eleven million prescriptions for psychotropic drugs for kids between the ages of one and seventeen. Rates of pediatric prescriptions for the stimulant Ritalin, which is used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, have been going up dramatically along with rates of * For anyone who has found relief from depression by taking an SSRI, the fact that the drugs have proved no more effective than a sugar pill in clinical trials undoubtedly seems more than a little strange." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Bush was state governor at the time and, during his 2000 presidential campaign, boasted of his support for the project and the fact that legislation he passed had expanded Medicaid coverage of psychotropic drugs.17 This latest development is an even bigger boon to companies who make antidepressants. Zyprexa, one of the drugs recommended as a first-line treatment in the Texas algorithm, grossed $4-28 billion worldwide in 2003 and is Eli Lilly's top-selling drug." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Today, it is easier than ever to treat the hysterical person as if he or she were ill: that is what the new psychotropic drugs are for. 10 Routine Neonatal Circumcision A Medical Ritual I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. —Gilbert K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles (1909) i there is a vast literature on the medical arguments for and against the practice of routine neonatal circumcision (RNC)." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"Some proposed endophenotypes include abnormal regulation of cir-cadian rhythms, response to sleep deprivation, electroencephalogram recordings of the scalp, behavioral responses to psychotropic drugs, and an increase in white matter hyperintensities.7 According to one group of researchers, there "is hope that endophenotypes can potentially narrow down the genetic determinants, increasing the power we have to discover the genes that are both protective and/or responsible for complex behavioral disorders." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"In 2 002, doctors wrote nearly eleven million prescriptions for psychotropic drugs for kids between the ages of one and seventeen. Rates of pediatric prescriptions for the stimulant Ritalin, which is used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, have been going up dramatically along with rates of * For anyone who has found relief from depression by taking an SSRI, the fact that the drugs have proved no more effective than a sugar pill in clinical trials undoubtedly seems more than a little strange." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The effect of silymarin on plasma levels of malondialdehyde in patients receiving long-term treatment with psychotropic drugs. Curr Ther Res; 55:537-545, 1994. Pares A, Planas R, Torres M et al. Effects of silymarin in alcoholic patients with cirrhosis of the liver: results of a controlled, double-blind, randomized and multicenter trial. J Hepatol; 28(4):615-21, Apr 1998. Peeters H (Ed.). Phosphatidylcholine. Biochemical and Clinical Aspects of Essential Phospholipids. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 1976. Rambaldi A, Jacobs BP, Iaquinto G, et al." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"The gate of entry for Noah was via Ritalin, or methylphenidate, which led to his being placed on 16 more drugs, including psychotropic drugs. Noah's life was transformed from one of happiness and good health before his drugging, to one of severe depression, anxiety, diabetes, high blood pressure, severe migraines, severe hostility, homicidal tendencies, aggression, suicidality, etc., etc., etc." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Bagheri H, Schmitt L, Berlan M, Montastruc J, A comparative study of the effects of Yohimbine and anetholtrithione on salivary secretion in depressed patients treated with psychotropic drugs. Eur J Clin Pharmaco I; 52(5):339-42, 1997. Berlin I, Crespo-Laumonnier B, Cournot A et al., The alpha-2 * adrenergic receptor antagonist Yohimbine inhibits epinephrine-induced platelet aggregation in healthy subjects. Clin Pharmacol Ther: 49(4):362-369, 1991. Bharucha AE, Novak V, Camilleri M et al., Alpha-2 adrenergic modulation of colonic tone during hyperventilation." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"In this era of "reflex" prescription writing for anti-depressants and other psychotropic drugs, many people with high copper, especially teen-age girls and women, are given prescriptions for very powerful drugs with little or no understanding of the underlying copper excess. Many of these anti-depressants and other psychotropic drugs are highly addictive. These types of drugs can easily throw a person into what I call "biochemical chaos." - Rick Malter, The Strands of Health: A Guide to Understanding Hair Mineral Analysis (Get the book.)

"In my opinion, any doctor who would thoughtlessly subject a child to that many highly dangerous psychotropic drugs should have his or her license to practice revoked. Such a doctor can be even more dangerous than a criminal with a loaded gun! They can continue to "legally destroy many children's lives", and never be held accountable for what is obviously malpractice, and outright dangerous." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Yet, shockingly, none of the most popular psychotropic drugs now being prescribed to millions of children have ever been approved for use in children. That includes drugs for ADHD, depression, and other mental or behavioral disorders. Matthew Smith Shaina Dunkle These children tragically lost their lives because they were required to take "safe and effective" behavioral drugs. www.CCHR." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"In this chapter more will be said of the dangers of the more common psychotropic drugs given to children in the name of "help" and "treatment." There is no drug that improves on the normal functioning of the human brain. Though stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall may initially appear to in their capacity to increase focus, this is accomplished by actually damaging the normal brain and is never justifiable. Every drug has some degree of toxicity, and this must be balanced against the benefits provided." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "Once psychotropic drugs like Ritalin begin coursing through their brains and bodies they become, for the first time, physically, neurologically, and biologically abnormal. And the process does not stop here, for, once a child is seen as abnormal, the door opens wide for a host of other labels and drugs, especially if the child does not respond as hoped to the initial drugging. A monkey has been made. Below is the story of Paul Johnston, which is a telling example of just how horrifying things can get." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"In the case of psychotropic drugs, though, it is not a one-sided issue. As has been well-established throughout this book, the legitimacy of the psychiatric diagnosis never is considered, even though the diagnosis must precede the prescribing of psychiatric mind-altering drugs. The psycho-wizards at the APA have never been forced to prove that an objective, confirmable abnormality exists for even a single psychiatric diagnosis." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"The increased use of psychotropic drugs, particularly antidepressants, provides a case in point.) Why hasn't the doctor taking care of your child questioned the use of these drugs? In March 2004, the FDA was compelled to tell the makers of 10 antidepressant drugs that they must tell doctors and patients using these drugs that both adults and children need to be closely monitored for worsening of depression and thoughts of suicide. In City Pages." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"But recent revelations about Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)— commonly known as antidepressants—raise serious questions about not only the effectiveness of the newest and most widely used class of psychotropic drugs, but also whether the drugs are even safe. Whether Americans actually suffer from a biological or neurological disease (an objective, confirmable abnormality) of the brain has never been addressed by policymakers charged with ensuring the nation's mental health." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

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