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Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime Paperback – May 26, 2009

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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 mental conditions are deteriorating and that their actions are no longer under control. He proves his argument by documenting dozens of cases from his practice and his consultations in legal cases.

Reading like a thriller, the book also examines how the FDA, the pharmaceutical industry, and the medical establishment continue to oversell the value of these drugs, and he provides information on how to safely stop taking psychiatric medications. Medication Madness is a compelling and frightening read as well as a cautionary tale about our reliance on medicine to fix what ails us.

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“Following his landmark book Talking Back to Prozac, psychiatrist Breggin follows up by arguing against what he calls the ‘spellbinding' effects of psychiatric medications, and he doesn't mean ‘spellbinding' as praise. His point is that all psychiatric drugs are dangerous; he describes how these medications can compromise brain function, resulting in bizarre, even violent behavior. Breggin, a former staffer at the National Institute of Mental Health who has testified in liability suits against pharmaceutical companies, cautions that consumers should thoroughly examine the drug labels for side effects as a precaution for such drugs as stimulants, antidepressants, tranquilizers, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers. The tragic cases of beleaguered patients detailed here are troubling. Breggin joins the growing group of experts who argue that the FDA is ‘more dedicated to serving the drug companies than consumers,' relying on doctored or incomplete evidence and botched tests. Breggin's assertion that psychotropic drugs induce rather than treat brain imbalances is controversial, but this book is a reasoned look at these drugs, which have come under increasing scrutiny in the media as well as medical world.” ―Publishers Weekly

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Peter R. Breggin, M.D., is a psychiatrist and expert in clinical psychopharmacology. A former teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School and full-time consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health, he has written dozens of scientific articles and more than twenty books, including the bestsellers Toxic Psychiatry and Talking Back to Prozac. He has served as a medical expert in criminal and civil cases involving psychiatric drugs, including product-liability suits against drug manufacturers. Dr. Breggin founded the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, taught at universities, and is on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. He lives in the Finger Lakes region with his wife, Ginger, and practices psychiatry in Ithaca, New York.

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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (May 26, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 031256550X
ISBN-13 : 978-0312565503
Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 0.89 x 9 inches

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BJJ

There is hope to save 3 of my daughters!

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2020

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At age 77 I am crying of my ignorance and thankful to God at the same time for this book. It's too late for my mother and husband, but maybe I can save my daughters from deaths by these horrible medications. Thank you Peter Breggin.

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Mike Black

Every American Should Read This

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2013

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A fascinating look at what we are doing to ourselves with psychiatric medication. I read this book looking to find answers for Sandy Hook type mass murders. I am a thirty year cop and recently retired as a Dallas PD Lieutenant. I am studying random mass murders case by case to determine how to prevent them and defend against them specifically in our schools. This book should be mandatory reading for School Teachers and other school staff whose insistence on ADHD medications for our kids are destroying lives and making them life-long addicts. If you or a family member are considering ADHD or SSRI anti-depressant medication, PLEASE read this book first. Since reading this book, I have read several others which verify Breggin's conclusions. I believe that several of the heinous crimes I have studied resulted from psychiatric medication. Read the book!

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Janice Stanger

The Chilling Truth About Psych Drugs

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2015

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The drug companies have conditioned the public to believe that psychiatric drugs are safe and effective. They are prescribed often for little to no reason to people who simply need a better way to cope with ordinary life issues. More often than anyone would want to believe, the patient ends up with a transforming life experience - but of the bad kind, sometimes even life-destroying. You will be shocked to learn the chilling truth about psychiatric drugs. The book is written in a gripping style, based on actual patient stories.

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Eric Schantz, LMHC

Tragic Facts, but a badly-needed book.

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2012

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Once again, Peter Breggin (the "Conscience of psychiatry") has written a badly-needed book on the immorality and unethical ways in which medical psychiatry poisons the lives of good men, women, and children, every single day. Dr. Breggin illustrates well the ways in which antidepressants, benzodiazepines, mood stabilizers, and antipsychotic medications actually disable parts of the human brain (essentially, chemical lobotomies - especially in the case of the anti-psychotics, which actually DO target the frontal lobes; see pp.225-226) and lull the poor people who take them into thinking they are doing better, when in fact they are NOT. This is what Dr. Breggin calls "medication spellbinding."

He does this by telling us about over 50 cases he has directly been involved with over the years, in which people have been literally poisoned by the very toxic drugs they were told would help them. Some of these cases he profiles have endings that could have been much worse; others that he profiles DO end much worse, resulting in suicides, homicides, violent attacks, broken families and shattered lives.

Unfortunately, if you are like me and work in a non-profit mental health clinic, you see the effects of these medications every day, which Dr. Breggin describes in this and other books. Tragically, the unholy allience that began in earnest in the 1970s between medical psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry is alive and well, and growing every day. This incestuous marriage is supported by a pseudoscientific manual known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV; soon to be DSM-5)
Most disgusting is the new inroads, starting 20 years ago, into what was then still an untapped market; children and adolescents. Now, thanks to the fictitious diagnosos of "ADHD" and the sudden, magical appearance of such diagnoses as Bipolar Disorder in children, they are a multibillion-dollar-a-year industry. Dr. Breggin addresses this story in-depth and quite well in the book, charting for us the tragic effects of this alliance, for example in Chapter 15 ("Parents forced to drug their children.")

Thankfully, there are people of great conscience and courage as Dr. Peter Breggin, and books like Medication Madness, to help shed the light of truth on what the late great psychiatrist Thomas Szasz called, "The Science of Lies."

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Vickie Turner

I have always known psychotropic drugs make my symptoms worse. Yes I've even tried Paxil

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2014

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This was the most informative book I've ever read. I could relate to it. I have always known psychotropic drugs make my symptoms worse. Yes I've even tried Paxil. I have to honestly say it ruined my life. I would say breggin at least does his homework and I agree healing with love. I'm just so thankful to have read this book. I agreed with all that was spoken about.
Psychotropic drugs damage people further. Just a lazy approach to overcoming peoples problems. Drugs are deadly. In Almost all cases of suicide people have these drugs in there system.
Great book. A Real psychiatrist doing really great work saving and helping peoples lives instead of pushing these prescriptions that are not only creating disasteress consequences to peoples lives but killing them also

Just my opinion and personal experiences. Everyone is different. Some may find relief from medication. I just never seen or experienced it in my life. This book for me made a lot of sense.
It is truth for me

Vickie cosic

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Trainer Lady

Great read!

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2017

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Amazing book, so interesting! I think most medications are a scam, they cause more problems than they help. This book is full of very interesting information.

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Angie Frey

Absolutely Incredible. A must read from beginning to end.

Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2019

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For anyone who has had loved ones affected by psychiatric medications, this is like someone giving you decoder glasses to all those things you knew were “off” but could not put your finger on it. The impact to their physical condition, their emotions, creativity, connection to self and others, the impact to close relationships, and how even who they are (personality) can be affected.

So many questions answered. So many ways to get actionable help for LONG-TERM physical and emotional help for my loved ones. Thank you Dr. Breggin.

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Kitty Meow

Good information

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2017

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Very interesting book. Big Pharma is pushing Doctor's to prescribe these powerful mind altering drugs and sadly they are now targeting kids. The healthcare system is broken, the average time allotted for PCP's is 15 minutes and 10 minutes for a specialist. Are doctor's overwhelmed keeping the pace of 4-6 patients and hour for 8-10 hours a day? I think so.

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Mrs Morton

A brilliant job informing the public of the horror of these ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2017

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A brilliant job informing the public of the horror of these drugs. The problem is this: He seems to be checkmated by the drug companies, they always settle out of court, pay out vast amounts and people sign to keep quiet. Why I wonder does he not focus on pharmacogenetics and the Cytochrome P450 test which to my mind and understanding is, at this time, THE way of dealing with the problem. Pharmacogenetics is to the drug companies what silver is to a vampire. Also there is no acknowledgment that the psychiatrists are as it were the useful - greedy - idiots in all this. Although I doubt they are idiots, there is something more malevolent going on: a need to control and not deal with the real possible causes that require blood tests, such as anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and other causes of psychosis. I would use the leverage of hedge funds armed with the knowledge of pharmacogenetics to bring about change.

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Danielle

Masterpiece!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2017

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Big Pharma=Big Money.

haley

Good piece of work

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2017

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Good piece of work. enables The Public to open up their eyes to the pharmacetucial industry, The Power theses prescriptive mediation has and other alternatives.

Michael Sullivan

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2017

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great book! wish it was more common knowledge how psychotropic drugs cause suicides

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miz wiz

a must-read for anyone interested in big pharma and its discontents

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 23, 2013

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this book helped me when quitting medication for a mental illness. not too many people took me seriously how badly said medication effected me.

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