Posted by vesper on February 29, 2000, at 3:32:53
In reply to Re: these drugs impare you not fix you!, posted by Rick on February 28, 2000, at 19:37:50
In case anyone forgot to mention it, this Breggin character conveniently skews the data to fit his apparent anti-psychiatric meds agenda. In the cases in which he refers to people becoming suicidal after taking prozac, for example, he neglects to mention that EVERY ONE of these people had a prior history of such things, and that their cases were thrown out of court. I could go on. It is a valid point that medications can be dangerous, and I think that everyone should be well educated. I also think that only Psychiatrists should be able to prescribe psych. meds, and perhaps highly trained psychiatric nurses, in an emergency. Doctors in other specialties simply do not have enough specific education to be prescribing these. It would be asking too much of anyone, IMHO, to know her or his chosen specialty AND current psychopharmacological protocols.
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