By Jon Rappoport
Listen to this man.
You'd better listen.
His name is Peter Breggin. He is a
world famous psychiatrist. He has been called the conscience of his profession.
Here is an excerpt
from his bio:
"Peter R.
Breggin MD is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former Consultant at NIMH
[National Institute of Mental Health] who has been called 'The Conscience of
Psychiatry' for his many decades of successful efforts to reform the mental
health field. His work provides the foundation for modern criticism of
psychiatric diagnoses and drugs, and leads the way in promoting more caring and
effective therapies. His research and educational projects have brought about
major changes in the FDA-approved Full Prescribing Information or labels for
dozens of antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs. He continues to education the
public and professions about the tragic psychiatric drugging of America's
children.""
"Dr. Breggin has
authored dozens of scientific articles and more than twenty books, including
medical books and the bestsellers Toxic Psychiatry and Talking
Back to Prozac. Two more
recent books are Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in
Cases of Violence, Suicide and Crime and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal:
A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families."
"Dr. Breggin has
unprecedented and unique knowledge about how the pharmaceutical industry too
often commits fraud in researching and marketing psychiatric drugs. He has
testified many times in malpractice, product liability and criminal cases,
often in relation to adverse drug effects..."
Here is an explosive excerpt from Dr. Breggin's recent
column at Mad In America: "Psychiatrist Says: More Psychiatry Means More
Shootings":
"In the early 1990s, a federal court appointed me to
be the scientific expert for all of the combined product liability cases that
were brought against Eli Lilly throughout the country concerning Prozac-induced
violence, suicide and crime. Since then I have
been involved in many cases in which judges and juries, and even prosecuting
attorneys, have determined that psychiatric drugs have caused or substantially
contributed to violence. For a lengthy list, see the Legal Section on
my website [www.breggin.com]."
"In
2003/2004, I wrote a scientific review article about
antidepressant-induced suicide, violence and mania which the FDA distributed to
all its advisory committee members. This took place as the FDA Advisory
Committee members prepared to review new warnings to be put in the Full
Prescribing Information for all antidepressants."
"In my peer-reviewed paper [about the effects of
antidepressants], I wrote: 'Mania with psychosis is the extreme end of a
stimulant continuum that often begins with lesser degrees of insomnia,
nervousness, anxiety, hyperactivity and irritability and then progresses toward
more severe agitation, aggression, and varying degrees of mania."
"In words very
close to and sometimes identical to mine, the FDA one year later required the
manufacturers of every antidepressant to put the following observations in the
Warnings section of the Full Prescribing Information:"
"'All patients
being treated with antidepressants for any indication should be monitored
appropriately and observed closely for clinical worsening, suicidality, and
unusual changes in behavior, especially during the initial few months of a
course of drug therapy, or at times of dose changes, either increases or
decreases. The following symptoms, anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia,
irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity, akathisia (psychomotor
restlessness), hypomania, and mania, have been reported in adult and pediatric
patients being treated with antidepressants for major depressive disorder as well
as for other indications, both psychiatric and nonpsychiatric'."
"These adverse
drug effects---including agitation, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness,
akathisia, and impulsivity---are an obvious prescription for violence. Akathisia, which I also
described in my article, is a psychomotor agitation that is strongly associated
with violence."
"The FDA
Medication Guide for antidepressants warns clinicians, patients and families to
be on the alert for the following:
- acting on dangerous impulses
- acting aggressive or violent
- feeling agitated, restless, angry
or irritable
- other unusual changes in behavior
or mood"
"This list
(above) of antidepressant adverse effects from the Medication Guide should make
clear that antidepressants can cause violence."
"The FDA also acknowledges the risk of both
psychosis and aggression from the stimulant drugs used to treat ADHD..."
"In the study of
violence reports to the FDA, any predisposition toward violence in the patients
themselves was largely ruled out because some of the most violence-inducing drugs were not
psychiatric drugs, and were being given to a more general population. Some of
the violence-inducing drugs were antibiotics, including Lariam (Mefloquine),
which Sgt. Robert Bales was taking when he slaughtered 16 helpless,
innocent villagers in Afghanistan."
"[The
authorities] do not foresee that the psychiatric strategy for treatment will
sometimes lead to tragic outcomes like the school shootings. Nor do they
realize that the overall evidence of harm from psychiatric drugs is infinitely
greater than the evidence for good effects, as scientist Peter Gøtzsche has
confirmed in Deadly Psychiatry and Organized Denial."
"Calling for more spending on mental health and on
psychiatry will make matters worse, probably causing many more shootings than
it prevents."
"Not only do psychiatric drugs add to the risk of
violence, but psychiatric treatment lulls the various authorities and the
family into believing that the patient is now 'under control' and 'less of a
risk.' Even the patient may think the drugs are helping, and continue to take
them right up to the moment of violence."
"Even when some
of their patients signal with all their might that they are dangerous and need
to be stopped, mental health providers are likely to give drugs, adding fuel to
the heat of violent impulses, while assuming that their violence-inducing drugs
will reduce the risk of serious aggression."
NOTE: DR. BREGGIN ISSUES THIS WARNING: "Most
psychiatric drugs can cause withdrawal reactions, including life-threatening
emotional and physical reactions. So it is not only dangerous to start psychiatric
drugs, it can also be dangerous to stop them. Withdrawal from psychiatric drugs
should be done carefully under experienced clinical supervision. Methods for safely withdrawing
from psychiatric drugs are discussed in Dr. Breggin's book: Psychiatric
Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and Their
Families."
My comments: The
tragedy of many mass shootings---many more than are highlighted by the
press---is mirrored by the tragedy of psychiatric drug treatment.
Overwhelmingly, psychiatrists
bury their heads in the sand, as they continue to dose patients with compounds
that cause horrendous effects, including violence.
The psychiatric solution to mass shootings---more
diagnosis and more drugs---becomes the cause for increased shootings.
Many mainstream
reporters are aware of this, but they are constrained from telling the whole
truth. Their media outlets are relying on pharmaceutical advertising for their
very existence.
Legal authorities make it very difficult, if not
impossible, to obtain information about which psychiatric drugs shooters were
taking before they went on their rampages. Case in point, Sandy Hook,
2012---the (purported) killer, Adam Lanza, had been under psychiatric
treatment. But an assistant attorney general for the state of Connecticut
stated that the list of Lanza's meds would not be disclosed, because
that "can cause a lot of people to stop taking their
medications." Better for patients
to keep taking those drugs---and then some of them will violently go off on
innocent persons.
In conversations with attorneys over the years, I've been
told that judges, police officers, and prosecutors avoid the "psychiatric
drug issue." They don't want to touch it. After all, friendly
psychiatrists are part of the legal system. They often testify at trials. Further, "medical experts"
will lash out and go on the attack against law enforcement if an attempt is
made to link a violent crime to the effects of psychiatric drugs. (Dr. Breggin
has managed to break through this code of silence. He is one of the only
psychiatrists who has been able to testify in court about the true effects of
psychiatric drugs.)
At the federal level, lobbyists for drug companies are
crawling all over Washington DC. They exert an astonishing level of influence
on law makers and bureaucrats. The issue of psychiatric drug-induced murder is
obviously not on the list of permitted issues for open and extensive
discussion.
Then there is the
FDA. This is the agency tasked with approving every medical drug as safe and
effective before it can be released for public use. The FDA will never admit
its decisions have been fueling mass shootings across America. The Agency views
the pharmaceutical industry as its partner. Placing warnings on informational
drug inserts (as described above by Dr. Breggin) easily escapes the attention
of psychiatric patients. Doctors who prescribe the drugs may or may not read
those warnings. Even if they do read them, the drugs are THE solution to
"mental disorders." Very few doctors will seek other means of
treatment.
The public is in the
middle of a psychiatric plague. Learning the truth is the first step forward.
After that, we MUST
preserve the right to refuse medication.
Freedom and life
itself hang in the balance.
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