Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Programs
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The pharmaceutical industry and organized psychiatry act as if the greatest challenge today is to identify new psychiatric disorders, to promote the supposedly high prevalence of existing disorders, and to find new blockbuster drugs, all the while heavily promoting current moneymakers. Even the United Nations is involved in “World Mental Health Day,” announcing that depression is a “global health crisis”:
10 October 2012 Terming depression, which afflicts 350 million people worldwide, an “under appreciated global health crisis,” Secretary General Ban Ki moon today called for an international effort to increase access to a wide variety of effective and affordable treatments and remove the social stigma attached to the illness.
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canada goose uk shop A key player is the World Federation for Mental Health, whose multi color brochure declares Oct. 10, 2012 as “World Mental Health Day,” again targeting depression in canada goose outlet price its booklet title: “Depression: A Global Crisis.” Perhaps because markets for psychiatric medications in the industrialized world are getting saturated canada goose outlet us and because drug companies and their products have been coming under heavy criticism, the “World Mental Health Day” is mostly aimed at poorer nations. The World Federation for Mental Health booklet advocates the use of antidepressant drugs. This colorful document was “made possible” by. guess whom? The only three sponsors are companies that make psychiatric drugs: Eli Lilly, Otsuka and Lundbeck. canada goose uk shop
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Tragically, despite the harm being done by psychiatric drugs, trying to withdraw from these chemicals can be very distressing and even life threatening. Psychiatric drug withdrawal needs to be done responsibly and thoughtfully. But the alternative of continuing to take psychiatric drugs indefinitely increases the risk of damage, and even shortened canada goose outlet lifespan in some patient populations. Instead of persisting in pushing psychiatric drugs, health professionals and organizations around the world would do far more good by developing and supporting programs for psychiatric drug withdrawal. My new book Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal provides the guidelines for withdrawing from psychiatric drugs as safely as possible.
cheap canada goose uk But who’s going to sponsor these reform efforts? Not the UN. Not the State Department. Not the drug companies. Not organized medicine and psychiatry. It will take a grassroots demand led by professionals with conscience, concerned patients, and responsible citizens cheap canada goose uk.
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