Posted by ronaldo on January 19, 2007, at 8:20:26
In reply to Too many pills - too little TIME, posted by ronaldo on January 19, 2007, at 6:14:26
http://www.stopshrinks.org/reading_room/drugs/stop_over-medication.htm
Today¹s OMH treatment, based on the popular psychiatric notion of mental illness as merely "brain disease," is, in fact, directed toward a very different goal: the maintenance of clients in drug-crippled states by indefinitely continuing them on brain-numbing drugs. Brain changes had long been sought unsuccessfully in schizophrenia, the most serious mental illness. Changes in these patients - an increase in dopamine receptors - which were absent in normals began to be found in the 1970¹s. Closer examination of the data revealed, however, that these changes were found only in schizophrenics who had received drug treatment but not in those who never were medicated. This strongly suggests that the brain changes supposedly characterizing schizophrenia are actually caused by the drugs used to treat it.
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