Psychiatrists Speak Out On Drugs
Medical doctors and psychiatrists share an ever growing concern for not only the exaggerated claims that psychiatric drugs will cure mental problems and conditions, and the excessive prescribing of them but because of increasing evidence of their capacity to inflict irrevocable harm.
In the face of this evidence it is remarkable that pharmaceutical companies are still free to manufacture these toxic drugs and that doctors appear to remain ignorant of the scientific research and evidence of their potential to cause damage to the brain, nervous system and many physiological functions upon which good health depends.
This will change as litigation increases and patients claim compensation when medication and medical treatment has caused them additional disease and pain recognized in the term ‘iatrogenic’ disease.
Dr Peter Breggin, M.D – Harvard trained psychiatrist – former full time consultant at NIMH – Private practice in Ithaca, NY – author of “Medication Madness: A psychiatrist exposes the dangers of mood-altering medications “ (2008) and “Psychiatric Drugs: Hazards to the Brain” pub 1983 says in his book ‘Toxic Psychiatry’ Pg 246 “… As with most psychiatric drugs, the use of the medication eventually causes an increase of the very symptoms that the drug is supposed to ameliorate”.
Joyce G. Small, MD and Iver F. Small, M.D Professors of Psychiatry at Indiana University, are critical of colleagues who use “psychoactive medications that are known to have neurotoxic effects”.
Dr. Andrew Stanway, British physician, says ”If anti-depressant drugs were really as effective as they are made out to be surely hospital admission rates for depression would have fallen over the twenty years they’ve been available. Alas, this has not happened…. Many trials have found that tricyclics are only marginally more effective than placebos, and some have even found that they are not as effective as dummy tablets.” (Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, page 159-160)
Lawrence Stevens, J.D. author of “Psychiatric Drugs: Cure or Quackery?” poses serious questions about the system.
We are indebted to Douglas A Smith’s commentary in Time magazine cover story “the Age of Ritalin” in drawing attention to the inconsistencies and the dangers of our present modern drug treatment system that is becoming inflicted upon American society to include the most recently targeted age group – our children.
There has been an ‘epidemic’ of diagnosed cases of mental illness of various kinds in the community, with depression as a major problem. But some doctors are in question regarding their professional integrity when young children, even infants are being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder and other conditions for which psychiatric drugs are prescribed. Medication of this nature and for this age group is totally unreasonable and is causing harm, not creating good health in our children.
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