Dr. John Breeding Ph.D. Psychologist reviews the book “Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications” by Dr. Peter Breggin.
Medications for everything from depression and anxiety to ADHD and insomnia are being prescribed in alarming numbers across the country, but the cure is often worse than the original problem. Medication Madness is a fascinating, frightening, and dramatic look at the role that psychiatric medications have played in fifty cases of suicide, murder, and other violent, criminal, and bizarre behaviors.
As a psychiatrist who believes in holding people responsible for their conduct, the weight of scientific evidence and years of clinical experience eventually convinced Dr. Breggin that psychiatric drugs frequently cause individuals to lose their judgment and their ability to control their emotions and actions. Medication Madness raises and examines the issues surrounding personal responsibility when behavior seems driven by drug-induced adverse reactions and intoxication.
Dr. Breggin personally evaluated the cases in the book in his role as a treating psychiatrist, consultant or medical expert. He interviewed survivors and witnesses, and reviewed extensive medical, occupational, educational and police records. The great majority of individuals lived exemplary lives and committed no criminal or bizarre actions prior to taking the psychiatric medications.
Medication Madness reads like a medical thriller, true crime story, and courtroom drama; but it is firmly based in the latest scientific research and dozens of case studies. The lives of the children and adults in these stories, as well as the lives of their families and their victims, were thrown into turmoil and sometimes destroyed by the unanticipated effects of psychiatric drugs. In some cases our entire society was transformed by the tragic outcomes.
Many categories of psychiatric drugs can cause potentially horrendous reactions.
Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Adderall, Ritalin, Concerta, Xanax, lithium, Zyprexa and other psychiatric medications may spellbind patients into believing they are improved when too often they are becoming worse. Psychiatric drugs drive some people into psychosis, mania, depression, suicide, agitation, compulsive violence and loss of self-control without the individuals realizing that their medications have deformed their way of thinking and feeling.
This book documents how the FDA, the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical industry have over-sold the value of psychiatric drugs. It serves as a cautionary tale about our reliance on potentially dangerous psychoactive chemicals to relieve our emotional problems and provides a positive approach to taking personal charge of our lives.
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In 1976, Henry Gadson, the CEO of Merck, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the US, was interviewed by Fortune magazine. During the interview, Gadson complained of having to limit his market to sick people. His dream, he said was to be able to “sell to everyone” and make Merck more like “Wrigley” the chewing gum company. Now thirty years later, as prescription and designer drugs become ever more prevalent, Mr.Gadson’s dream may have come true. In the four-hour special Warning: Before You Take This Pill, Link TV will explore the question of whether we’ve become smarter patients or are just plain worried sick. Part 1 of the special features Selling Sickness, a compelling documentary that explores how drug companies today are not just selling medicine but also the diseases that go with them. Also featured are excerpts from Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety, a new film from Hummingbird Productions that offers an insider’s perspective from former pharmaceutical reps and doctors. During the special, Dr. Michael Steinman, istant Professor in Residence, Staff Physician, SFVAMC will be in discussion. Dr. Steinman has an active interest in pharmaceutical marketing practices and subtle ways that the industry may influence the prescribing behaviors of physicians.
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http://www.preventyourpanic.com Learn why anti anxiety drugs may not be the best treatment to overcome anxiety, and find the options that really do work…
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Psychiatrist Daniel Amen, M.D. notes…
“I use medication in my practice, but it’s not the first thing that I use.
“I always think about the least toxic, most effective treatment.
“And often, with anxiety, ADD, depression, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder [ I treat them ] with behavior techniques, and natural supplements, people can get significantly better.
“So in my mind, I think, why not at least try that first?
“If that doesn’t work, we have the medications that we can use.”
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For 30 years, Joan Mathews Larson, PhD has been treating addiction, anxiety and depression with natural supplements in order to correct the underlying biochemical problems which cause these conditions.
In this video clip, she tells how a deficiency of vitamin B3, niacinamide, can cause anxiety depression and fatigue.
She also notes that vitamin B3 can eliminate a kind of alcohol psychosis that causes paranoia and feeling quarrelsome.
Note: the doses of vitamin B3 used for this are several thousand milligrams, which is a much higher dose than is found in multiple vitamins.
Dr. Larson also points out that anti-anxiety medicines such as Valium, Xanax, Ativan, and Librium attach to the same anti-anxiety receptors in the brain as vitamin B3.
She also notes that when the patent for Valium ran out, the drug company, Hoffman LaRoche, admitted that they got the formula for Valium by trying to copy the chemical structure of vitamin B3.
Imagine that.
“Niacin, vitamin B3, [ later she corrects this and says what she meant was niacinamide, which is the non-flushing form of vitamin B3 ] reverses a kind of alcohol psychosis that people who have been drinking typically have, where they feel paranoid, and quarrelsome, and may even have sensory disperceptions…
“Niacin [ niacinamide ] will turn that around completely.
“[ People with a vitamin B3 deficiency ] may look like they are schizophrenic, but they’re not.
“If you treat them… and at the end, we do all our testing again… that is always corrected.
“Niacin… [ I mean, ] niacinamide, which crosses the blood brain barrier, not niacin, binds to the same brain receptors that binds the benzodiazepines, like Valium, Librium, Ativan, Xanax, and so, it has anti-anxiety effects.
“And when Hoffman LaRoche’s patent grant amounts under Valium, they admitted that, where they got the formula, was from niacin.
“[Dr. Abram ] Hoffer the standard classification of anxiety neurosis fits into the description, perfectly, of initial symptomatology of subclinical pellagra, which is niacin deficiency…
“There is hyperactivity, [ anxiety ], depression, fatigue, apprehension, headache, and insomnia.”
Dr. Larson is the author of “7 Weeks to Sobriety”, “Depression Free”, and “7 Weeks to Emotional Healing”.
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Evan Kopelson continues to bare all in this shocking personal confession about anxiety, panic attacks, prescription drugs and more. When Evan says he’s getting personal you can believe he means business. See for yourself here & at http://blastcapnews.com
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The discussion broke down when a weak minded individual resorted to using his cell phone gun to settle a dispute he was having with himself.
The BetterBadNews panel examine how misinformed and abused populations can combat their pre-existing fears by self medicating to the point of mental oblivion. But is this political satire or journalism?
Was it the philosopher Herbert Marcuse who pointed out that a healthy person is perceived as being sick in a sick society? Yes. But is it relevant?
Treatment for pre-existing fears include the costs of experimental anxiety medications used in the fight against approaching balloon payments.
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http://www.PanicAwayFast.com Get free expert advice & panic treatment anxiety treatment.Treating Anxiety Disorder Symptoms and Stress Anxiety Treat Panic Agoraphobia And Learn Causes of Anxiety
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Secrets to Training the Perfect Dog. Don Sullivan, The DogFather, cures a German Shepherd who suffers from Separation Anxiety, training her to be at peace and freeing her from drugs. Total transformation time: just 15 minutes!
Find more of these amazing videos at www.theperfectdog.com.
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http://www.PanicAwayFast.com Get free expert advice & panic treatment anxiety treatment.Treating Anxiety Disorder Symptoms and Stress Anxiety Treat Panic Agoraphobia And Learn Causes of Anxiety
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