Psychiatric Drugs’ Side-Effects

“Cost-Benefits!” With these magical words psychiatrists reassure their patients about the devastating side-effects deriving from taking psychiatric drugs. The truth is that psychiatrists are lying to their patients (and to the patients’ families) on the seriousness of these side-effects, on the risks that they might last even after the interruption of the drug treatment.

The truth is that no one would undergo the risk of taking voluntarily these drugs if he were to be correctly informed about the risks involved. As for those who are forced to take these drugs... well, they should at least seek legal compensation.

In this section are presented articles which highlight the psychophysical harm caused by psychiatric drugs taken at therapeutic dosage and under medical supervision.

Heart attacks linked to much-used drug — The Scotsman, May 2005.

The dark side of psychiatric drugs © USA Today Magazine, 1994

Neurologic Malignant Syndrome — a bibliography by John M. Friedberg, MD

Clinical and MRI Evaluation of Psychostimulant Neurotixicity — G.Bartzokis, M.Beckson, and W.Ling

Evidence of Neuroleptic Drug-Induced Brain Damage in Patients: A partial, Annotated Bibliography — CIRCARE

Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock, and the Role of the FDA — by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.

SSRI Antidepressants’ Harmful Effects

Prozac killed my wife — The Guardian, June 2003

An Analysis of Use of Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft in USA 1988-2002

Safety of Seroxat (Paroxetine) in children — Committee on Safety of Medicine, 2003

Dr. Healy’s letter to MCA: Links between SSRI, sucides, homicides and addiction

Treatment with SSRI during childhood can decrease growth — Reuters Health

Amotivational Syndrome Linked With SSRI Use in Youth for the First Time — Medscape

Alcohol Cravings Induced via Increased Serotonin — Ann Blake Tracy

FDA Statistics on Prozac’s Side Effects

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