Drugs inducing mental
illness
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Diseases & symptoms linked to drugs
See: Depression Suicide Murder, manslaughter, school shootings
[2016 Sept] Asthma medication linked to serious psychotic episodes in children
[2009 Oct] We're turning children psychotic with ADHD medication
[Interview 2005] Psychiatry's Untold History of Cruelty, Torture, Eugenics and Brain Damage
''When you
research the rise of juvenile bipolar illness in this country, you see that
it appears in lockstep with the prescribing of stimulants for ADHD and
antidepressants for depression. Prior to the use of those medications, you
find that researchers reported that manic-depressive illness, which is what
bipolar illness was called at the time, virtually never occurred in prepubertal children. But once psychiatrists started putting “hyperactive”
children on Ritalin, they started to see prepubertal children with manic
symptoms. Same thing happened when psychiatrists started prescribing
antidepressants to children and teenagers. A significant percentage had
manic or hypomanic reactions to the antidepressants.
When you add up all this information, you end up documenting
a story of how the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in the United
States have been destroyed in this way. In fact, I think that the number of
children and teenagers that have ended up “bipolar” after being treated with a
stimulant or an antidepressant is now well over one million. This
is a story of harm done on an unimaginable scale.''
[2010]
Robert Whitaker Interview