Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Eric Harris, the leader in the tragedy in Colorado in April, 1999, was taking the psychiatric drug Luvox at the time of the murders. Luvox is approved for children and youth with obsessive compulsive disorder, but doctors often give it for depression, since it is in the same class as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. While psychiatric drug use is only one of the contributing factors to the episodes of school violence, it is one of the most easily prevented factors. There is strong scientific evidence to support the view that these drugs should not be given to children and teenagers. |
Charles Barber
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 It is in fact standard fare to be taking some sort of psychiatric drug in college these days. Professors have told me, after they've done informal polling of their students, that a third to a half have taken psychiatric drugs. The chief of Mental Health Services at Harvard wrote about antidepressants and attention deficit drugs in The New England Journal of Medicine: "Increasing numbers of students, and sometimes their families, request medication to provide an 'edge,' even if the students have no clinically significant impairment of functioning. |
| The size and reach of the psychiatric drug industry is staggering. It is far, far greater than most psychiatric practitioners realize and certainly greater than the drug companies would want you to know. There are various ways to measure the dimensions of the enterprise:
• 3 3 million Americans were prescribed at least one psychiatric drug in 2004, up from 21 million in 1997.13
• The spending on antidepressants rose from $5.1 billion in 1997 to $13.5 billion in 2006; and on antipsychotics from $1.3 billion in 1997 to 11.5 billion in 2006. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Generation Rx" delivers a devastating blow to the psychiatric drug pushers, FDA puppets and Big Pharma marketing fraudsters who have sold an entire nation on an absurd idea that turns out to be a grand medical hoax: that millions of children have "chemical imbalances" in their brains requiring treatment with patented, profitable pharmaceutical drugs like Prozac and Ritalin.
The film features interviews with many notable doctors, authors and health experts, including Dr. Julian Whitaker, Dr. |
Bottom Line Health
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| So, for many, "not using a psychiatric drug means they never had such a flaw at all," he says.
People may not want to take these medications because they think they will face harsh judgment from others, says sociologist Bernice A. Pescosolido, director of the Consortium. She recounts the story of a friend who, following her divorce, took her fifth grader to see a therapist. After the doctor prescribed an antidepressant, the boy said, "That's it! I can't run for president. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A subsidiary of Novartis, Sandoz Laboratories, introduced the world to LSD in 1938, marketing it as a psychiatric drug named Delysid. This same drug company also created saccharin, the artificial chemical sweetener.
4. Drug giant Merck pioneered the commercial manufacture of morphine from opium and was a heavy pusher and marketer of cocaine. Merck also patented MDMA (Ecstasy, the rave drug). After World War II, Merck also began producing pesticides and food preservatives.
5. Ritalin is "speed" for children. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| While psychiatric drug use is only one of the contributing factors to the episodes of school violence, it is one of the most easily prevented factors. There is strong scientific evidence to support the view that these drugs should not be given to children and teenagers."
Dennis Clarke, chair of the Executive Advisory Board of the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, expands our understand of drug-induced violence to include some well known mass murderers. "In Austin, Texas in 1966, Charles Whitman went up into the Texas Tower, the first school shooting in the United States. |
Charles Barber
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| It is the belief that such a cure-all agent exists that has created the massiveness of the psychiatric drug industry in the first place.
The other caveat is that the approaches explored in the coming chapters require earnest work and a strong commitment to get better. These treatments and approaches require action instead of passivitythe patient can no longer just be a vassal—a mere recipient of a pill— but must take the lead and be in charge of their own treatment and their own recovery. This requires, unfortunately, sweat and bother. |
| There are various ways to measure the dimensions of the enterprise:
• 3 3 million Americans were prescribed at least one psychiatric drug in 2004, up from 21 million in 1997.13
• The spending on antidepressants rose from $5.1 billion in 1997 to $13.5 billion in 2006; and on antipsychotics from $1.3 billion in 1997 to 11.5 billion in 2006.14
• The third-best-selling antidepressant, Lexapro, has been on the market only since 2002. But 15 million Americans have already taken it.15
• Nine percent of American teens have been prescribed drugs for depression. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What happens to Americans when one out of five children grow up on speed or some other kind of psychiatric drug?
Dr. Baughman: Well, we are at that number clearly. We are drugging well over 10 million. There is no sign that it's getting better. I pointed out that ADHD in adults is a rapidly growing market sector, so I think when you are told you've got a disease and you are in fact normal, you are damaged just by the label. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Did you know that in the last ten years, virtually every violent act committed in schools was perpetrated by a person who either had taken or was currently taking a psychiatric drug? Finally, the research has become so compelling that there are warnings saying that certain psychiatric drugs actually increase the propensity to commit suicide. |
Greg Critser
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 Brain plasticity looms as a concern in the long-term use of any psychiatric drug. It is, however, an area of great neglect. The industry does not sponsor studies of long-term use, even though it supports and popularizes the practice of lifelong dosing. (When it does underwrite pediatric studies, about 25 percent show that either the dose must be changed to prevent adverse events noted among children, or that the drug did not work at all.) No one really knows just what that will mean for a new generation, who will be relying not just on SSRI drugs, but also on Ritalin and its imitators. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 Nearly half of the last 17 school shootings involved adolescents who were known to be taking at least one psychiatric drug, and some more than one. This is troubling on a most basic level. Consider for a moment the possibility that nearly half of the school shooters had snorted cocaine prior to their murderous assaults. Does anyone believe that law enforcement would not focus on the illegal drug use? Of course this would be important information to at least note and, in fact, might be considered irresponsible had it not been included. |
| The FDA received tens of thousands of adverse event reports for Prozac yet today it remains a top selling psychiatric drug, pulling in tens of billions of dollars during its 18 years on the market. In fact, by 1998, Eli Lilly's Prozac held the dubious distinction of garnering the first place slot at the FDA for receiving the most adverse event reports for any of the more than 3,200 drugs on the market. The same year, the "wonder" drug, Prozac, also took home first place for racking up the most reported "serious" side effects. |
Mike Adams
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 A subsidiary of Novartis, Sandoz Laboratories, introduced the world to LSD in 1938, marketing it as a psychiatric drug named Delysid. This same drug company also created saccharin, the artificial chemical sweetener.
Drug giant Merck pioneered the commercial manufacture of morphine from opium and was a heavy pusher and marketer of cocaine. Merck also patented MDMA (Ecstasy, the rave drug). After World War II, Merck also began producing pesticides and food preservatives. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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| One only need consider the increased psychiatric drug use to answer that question. The entire national psych-scheme is built on a scientifically unproven theory that the alleged psychiatric mental disorders are actual abnormalities of the brain and that chemical intervention (mind-altering drugs) targets the abnormalities. So, with help from the psychiatric community in screening Americans for mental illness, the use of psychiatric mind-altering drugs most assuredly will increase. Enter the pharmaceutical companies.
According to a report from Business Communications Co. Inc. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Professor William Cary of the University of Pennsylvania testified to Congress that 17 percent of all school children as of 2003 are on some type of psychiatric drug, not all ADHD drugs and not all with an ADHD diagnosis. I think that the number today is probably one in five, or 20 percent. It was 17 percent according to Dr. Cary in 2003. It's probably 20 percent today.
Mike: It's astounding. Even if this disease were legitimate, this was something that doesn't exist in other countries and it didn't exist anywhere two generations ago. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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| Is it any wonder that prescription psychiatric drug use increases exponentially year after year? The Post, known for its extraordinary investigative reporters, says psychiatric mental disorders are diseases, so they must be!
Whether or not an alleged mental disorder is a disease is no small matter, especially when one considers that the Stein-Kaufman article is reporting that the mind-altering antidepressants actually treat the alleged diseases. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 Being normal, no psychiatric drug is going to improve their brains' functioning and no toxic effects, or the risk of them, can be justified.
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The psychological, psychiatric disturbances of children arise from stresses of their environment, be it from their home, school, or community, in other words, in situations controlled by the adults in their lives. When a child is anxious, depressed, or distracted, they are responding to something that is troubling them. |
| All such abnormalities/diseases must either be an independent, coincidental disease (such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, or asbestosis), or due to a psychiatric drug or drugs they have been on. The litany of side-effects for every drug in the Physician's Desk Reference are always a result of the drug exposure, never of the psychiatric "disease" itself, for the simple reason, that none are actual diseases. It is this fraud, among others, that the FDA has been an eager party to. |
| If you are a parent, then, and bring your child to a physician out of concern over a problem you have been told he may need to be given a psychiatric drug for, that physician may be operating under the influence of information of no better quality than the Strattera advertisement in Family Circle. |
| The precedent for the practice of creating a disease as a means of manufacturing demand for a psychiatric drug got its start with Ritalin and its amphetamine cousins. As we showed earlier, it was only after the drug had been found to improve focus and manageability in children did the ADD/ADHD diagnoses appear and quickly begin evolving to include growing numbers of children. With huge profits being made, Ritalin was ripe for challengers. And who conquered it in terms of market share? A drug already deemed too dangerous for adults. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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| Until the psychiatric community is forced to prove that even one of the nearly 400 alleged psychiatric mental disorders is an objective, confirmable abnormality of the brain, the number of American's being subjectively diagnosed as mentally ill and becoming psychiatric drug "users" will continue to increase. And it appears that the FDA is well aware of the explosive increase in mind-altering drugs and also that the now acknowledged adverse effects could prove to be financially painful to the drug makers. |
| When it comes to school shooting tragedies, the attack at Columbine is the granddaddy of all child-perpetrated assaults. Eighteen-year-old Harris and 17-year-old Klebold planned and executed the grisliest, most inhumane and senseless schoolhouse attack the nation had ever known. The teenagers savagely had exposed our vulnerabilities and, together, we mourned the innocent victims. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| Schools get $500 per month for every child they have on a psychiatric drug, including Ritalin or Prozac. This gives a major incentive for schools to get kids on drugs.
• Doctors routinely get visits from pharmaceutical sales reps. These sales reps do not tell doctors how to cure and prevent disease. These sales reps have very sophisticated presentations that are designed to tell doctors how they can increase their profits. These pharmaceutical sales reps tell doctors how they can make more money by prescribing more drugs. |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
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| Almost everyone of these is used as an excuse to prescribe Prozac or another psychiatric drug. Nevertheless they are also often reported as side-effects of the psychoactive drugs. Let's take a look at why this happens.
Stress is measured medically by testing for elevated levels of the adrenaline (epinephrine), corticoids, or ACTH. Another determining factor is Corticotrophin Releasing Factor (CRF), which is responsible for the release of ACTH and subsequently the adrenal corticoids, Cortisol (cortisone), and corticosterone. |
Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.
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 A colleague in the next seat commented under his breath, "Would he have said the same about Thalidomide [the psychiatric drug that later proved to cause severe birth defects], morphine, and amphetamines when these were popular prescription drugs in their day?" Should doctors not have voiced their concerns to patients taking these drugs as serious side effects began to emerge? Or should they have remained silent and ridden the enthusiasm for the popular medications for as long as it lasted? |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
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| My doctor neglected to tell me that I would no longer be able to find a job because most companies will not hire someone who has used a psychiatric drug and most insurance companies will no longer insure you. "
"I would fall into the wall, bounce off and just laugh about it. "
"After taking only one pill I sat with my arms wrapped around me the rest of the day to stop myself from doing anything to my children! Needless to say, I never ever took a second pill!"
"I thought and acted just like a teenager again. At forty-five I grew my hair long and put psychedelic designs all over my car! |
| Apparently they retained a hope that the pharmaceutical companies might yet find a drug to fit their specifications through research in psychiatric drug treatments. Their suggestion that they would keep a close eye on the progress of the commercial interests should have been quite an incentive for any aggressive profit seeking company. How many of the psychoactive drugs presently on the market are there as a result of this hope of landing a government contract? Knowing the history of these drugs makes it difficult, if not just plain insane, to trust them. |
| The Canadian magazine WESTERN REPORT in an article entitled "Silent Scourge - How two obscure prescription drugs cause most of our urban crime" (February 2, 1987) credited Ritalin, this highly addictive psychiatric drug, a form of "speed" and a class #2 narcotic, and the painkiller, Talwin, as being responsible for 70 percent of Canada's urban crime.
Ninety-five percent of hyperactives are male. If male brain function is compared to the female brain function, we find one reason for this high incidence rate of ADHD in young males. |
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