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Psychiatric Drugs

A variety of information about psychiatric prescribed medications, including neuroleptic brain damage, deaths and psychiatric drugs, and resources about quitting psychiatric drugs.

Folder Antidepressants
"Antidepressants' include psychiatric drugs such as SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) such as Prozac and Zoloft.
Folder Hazards
 
Folder Neuroleptics
Information about traditional and atypical neuroleptic drugs, also known as "anti-psychotics."
Folder Quitting Psychiatric Drugs
Suggestions, ideas and tips for those who are choosing to stop taking prescribed psychiatric drugs. Disclaimer: MindFreedom is pro-choice and is not making a recommendation on your personal health care decisions.
Folder Psychiatric Drugs and Death
The high mortality rate for those who have a diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder may be related to the hazardous levels and types of psychiatric drugs that are often prescribed.
Article Mind Over Meds
Here is an article from Sunday NY Times about regrets of a psychiatrist and author, Daniel Carlat.
News Item Robert Whitaker's new book takes on mental health myths about psychiatric drugs.
The new book by journalist Bob Whitaker -- Anatomy of an Epidemic -- challenges the massive psychiatric drugging inundating our society. He also spotlights MindFreedom's activism more than once as a model of effectiveness.
News Item "Undue influence of pharmaceutical industry" opposed by USA mental health consumer/psychiatric survivor leaders.
Key national mental health consumer/psychiatric survivor leaders at a national USA federal meeting on mental health consumer and psychiatric survivor inclusion issued a statement of "alarm" about the "undue influence of the psychiatric pharmaceutical industry," and the “urgent necessity for more non-drug alternatives in mental health care.” Speaking for themselves as individuals, and not on behalf of the government, 18 of the 19 participants signed the statement.
Image Robert Whitaker photo
Author of Anatomy of an Epidemic
Folder Should Bob Whitaker be allowed to speak at federally-funded Alternatives Conference?
All about controversy of whether Bob Whitaker should be allowed to speak as a keynoter at the annual conference funded by the US government, "Alternatives 2010."
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Matt Morrissey

Matt Morrissey is on the MFI Choice in Mental Health Campaign Committee. Matt is a psychiatric survivor with a master’s in counseling who directs the adult day program at Full Spectrum Progressive Mental Health, which is a nonprofit center in San Francisco that offers voluntary programs for adults and adolescents in severe emotional distress. Full Spectrum is a Sponsor Group in MFI. Matt is shown here speaking at an MFI co-sponsored protest in front of the American Psychiatric Association. (Photo by Tom Olin)