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Medication Madness
In Medication Madness, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., describes how people taking psychiatric medication can experience abnormal behavioral reactions, including suicide, violence, emotional breakdowns, and criminal acts. Dr. Breggin explains his concept of “medication spellbinding”: individuals taking psychiatric drugs may have no idea whatsoever that their ment...more
Paperback, 400 pages
Published
May 26th 2009
by St. Martin's Griffin
(first published July 8th 2008)
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In "Medication Madness," Peter Breggin describes dozens of cases that he has personally evaluated as a practicing psychiatrist. These stories were told without embellishment; their truth was dramatic enough. Through his clearly sympathetic retelling, we hear "about children and adults who have been emotionally injured and sometimes driven mad by psychiatric medications, many committing horrific crimes." (p. 1) Antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, anti-psychotics and ADH...more
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This is an excellent book. It explains how drug companies suppress and/or manipulate the results of their trials before they put a new drug on the market (related to psychiatric diagnoses). Once on the market these drugs are aggressively promoted to doctors to use as add ons and in combination with other drugs that they have never had tests trials done. Payoffs, lobbying, suppressing information, case histories of patients that have had their minds altered by one pill. . . I think this is a v...more
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Does a wonderful job exposing the dangers and ineffectiveness of most anti-depressant medications.
Dr. Breggin has done it again! I applaud his fine effort in this remarkable book and encourage any thinking human being to read it, and read it now. The description of "spellbinding" and the application thereof, to all our addictions, is worth way beyond the price of the book. I have been associated with Dr. Breggin's ICSPP organization for several years and am proud of that association and for standing up for psychiatric patient's rights. A great book by a truly great man of our t...more
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