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Withdrawal from Prescribed Psychotopic Drugs

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

Drug withdrawal is an important topic today. This new book is an international collaboration that includes users, psychiatrists, researchers, and academics committed to helping people understand the potential harm that prescribed psychotropic drugs can cause and how to safely reduce or stop taking them. Doctors, including psychiatrists, prescribe antidepressants, neuroleptics (“antipsychotics”), mood stabilizers, tranquilizers and

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Pharmaceutical Use & The Sedated Society

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Emma Bragdon

‘The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Prescribing Epidemic‘ (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) Pharmaceutical Use in the UK Over 15% of the UK and 20% of the US adult population take a psychiatric medication, aka pharmaceutical, on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. When these figures are set

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Say No to Kids and Pharmaceutical Drugs?!

Posted on April 24, 2014 by admin

Saying No to Kids and Pharmaceutical Drugs? A new article by Peter Breggin, MD in the journal Children & Society, outlines The Rights of Children and Parents In Regard to Children Receiving Psychiatric Diagnoses and Drugs: ”. . . This article addresses the scientific and moral question of whether it is ever in the best interests

Posted in ADD, ADHD, Children, Drugs, Health, Medication, Mental Health, Psychiatry ADHD, Breggin, drugs, kids