Medication Madness Book Review by Dr. John Breeding

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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[2cgod]

Ordered Medication Mandess, can't wait to read. More harm than good, so sad. With the love and support of caring people maybe drugs can be eliminated. This brought tears to my eyes. Manipulated by a substance supposedly injested to help. Such victimination, Big Pharma at its best! They hope to keep us all impaired and dependent, what better way to pad their pockets! Definetely not designed to help, only to profit at such a sad expense. How do they go to bed at night knowing this?

[enors412]

Down with Big Pharma. We may not beat it but we can save some lives.

[Transmintosity]

@BandofSorensons I know, you can't literally have a mental or nervous mental breakdown

[Transmintosity]

@DaanVT86 Irving Kirsch did a meta-analysis of the clinical trials pertaining to the performance of pro-depressants, sorry, I mean anti-depressants, which showed they are only marginally superior to placebo, the gap not being great enough to rule out that this isn't attributable to the misapprehension of the drugs' effects. Anecdotal evidence isn't enough, studies are needed that look at outcomes in the aggregate.

Get it round ya, get it right round ya!

[Transmintosity]

Some prat on quackwatch accused Breggin of contravening the medical-ethical maxim, 'First, do no harm'! These are dark times indeed! It is a very apropos appellation though, because it is a watchdog run by and for quacks!

[AnneFox7]

Dear Dr. Breeding. You have been so helpful to parents of children false accused and abused by Alberta Children's Services and their offenders in case management. ( Teams)Can you support studies and information for those groups who would like to prevent attacks on their child by the use of law-suites to stop child abuse. When they can't make money hurting children they'll stop. There are several organizations selling Autism Spectrum to the public as a disease and they are attacking children.

[ababyinthesun]

have an opinion just let it be an informed opinion, cchr(.)org

[DaanVT86]

Don`t listen to this quack. Depression is a deadly disease by itself and scaring people off antidepressants is dangerous! I`ve stayed off antidepressants for years because I believed these kind of people, but finally I decided to give in and start prozac.

It works great and i wish i started it earlier. This guy should explain how damaging stress is to "all parts of the body" instead of how SSRI`s influences it.

[LAEXCITOSAAPARECIDA]

One more reference, once the father of the biochemical treatment School became quite old, fortunately, this fellow SAUL teamed up with Dr Hoffer, Co-authoring on books and got everything going very well... Dr. Hoffer died 2 years ago after being very healthy in life, (as was the case with Linus Pauling).

"Vitamins Instead of Drugs: Orthomolecular Alternatives to Pharmaceuticals" online article by Andrew. These Doctors are the Legit Chemo-psychiatrists; long since SUPRESSED (partially).

[Nu13th]

@LAEXCITOSAAPARECIDA Thanks for your reply. I'll start looking at the links provided.

[LAEXCITOSAAPARECIDA]

@Nu13th Absolutely! Vitamin C and DHA and/or EPA USUALLY for starters! Systemic inflammation is a big topic also. Google up - David Horrobin, Why Do We Not Make More Medical Use of Nutritional Knowledge? "Individuals who are nutritionally deprived will have reduced resistance to a range of diseases, and will also have impaired responses to whatever treatments are being offered." See SAFE HARBOR alternativementalhealth. Inflammation, see - The Perricone Weight Loss Program Nov 2005

[Nu13th]

Just got out of a clinic for a loved one's eating disorder. All doctors, therapists, and naturally psychiatrists there strongly believed in neuroleptics and I was the hick for saying no to neuroleptics. It's good to be out.