Talking Back To Ritalin

Author : Peter Breggin
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780738212104

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Talking Back To Ritalin by Peter Breggin Pdf

Millions of children take Ritalin for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The drug's manufacturer, Novartis, claims that Ritalin is the "solution" to this widespread problem. But hidden behind the well-oiled public-relations machine is a potentially devastating reality: children are being given a drug that can cause the same bad effects as amphetamine and cocaine, including behavioral disorders, growth suppression, neurological tics, agitation, addiction, and psychosis. Talking Back to Ritalin uncovers these and other startling facts and translates the research findings for parents and doctors alike. An advocate for education not medication, Dr. Breggin empowers parents to channel distracted, disenchanted, and energetic children into powerful, confident, and brilliant members of the family and society.

Author : Peter Roger Breggin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
ISBN : 1567512127

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Talking Back to Ritalin by Peter Roger Breggin Pdf

Author : Peter Breggin
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:49015002930569

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Talking Back To Ritalin by Peter Breggin Pdf

Breggin (International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology) severely criticizes the American Psychiatric Association and the pharmaceutical company Novartis, among others, for using the questionable diagnosis of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children for pushing such potentially harmful stimulants as Ritalin, Metadate, and Concerta on children. He counters the scientific evidence on the existence of ADHD and details the many psychological problems that can develop in children exposed to Ritalin and other stimulants. He discusses the many environmental factors that can lie behind a child's poor performance in schools and explores the bureaucratic and corporate pressures to medicate America's children. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Peter Roger Breggin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
ISBN : OCLC:48073289

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Talking Back to Ritalin by Peter Roger Breggin Pdf

Author : Peter Breggin
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780786747290

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The Ritalin Fact Book by Peter Breggin Pdf

Known as the "Ralph Nader of psychiatry," Peter Breggin has been the medical expert in countless civil and criminal cases involving the use or misuse of psychoactive medications. This unusual position has given him unprecedented access to private pharmaceutical research and correspondence files, access that informs this straight-talking guide to the most-prescribed and controversial class of psychoactive medications prescribed for children. From how these drugs work in the brain to documented side and withdrawal effects, The Ritalin Fact Book is up-to-the-minute and easy-to-access. With its suggestions for non-prescriptive ways to treat ADD and ADHD, it is essential reading for every parent whose child is on or who has been recommended psychoactive medication.

Author : Joel Turtel
Publisher : Shawn K. Hall
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780964569324

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Public Schools, Public Menace by Joel Turtel Pdf

The book explains why public schools are a menace to our children and waste their precious time. The book also shows why public schools are beyond repair, and simply cannot give children the education they need and deserve The author reveals how public schools cripple children's ability to read and indoctrinate innocent children with anti-parent, anti-American, and anti-Judeo-Christian values. The books also explores why public-school authorities now pressure millions of parents to give their children mind-altering drugs like Ritalin. The good news is that parents don't have to put up with a third-rate, mind-numbing public-school education for their kids any longer. The author gives parents a wealth of practical advice, strategies, and resources about quality, low-cost education alternatives parents can use to give their kids a great education, if they decide to take their kids out of public school. He gives detailed lists of quality, low-cost Internet schools, teaching books, and home-schooling resources parents can use to give their kids a great education. Dr. Laura Schlessinger, syndicated radio talk-show host said about "Public Schools, Public Menace" that , "This book is a must read for every parent . . ."

Author : Peter R. Breggin,Ginger Ross Breggin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781497617483

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Talking Back to Prozac by Peter R. Breggin,Ginger Ross Breggin Pdf

A psychiatrist takes a critical look at this SSRI and newer medications that are among the most frequently prescribed drugs in America. Prozac. Millions of Americans are on it. And just about everyone else is wondering if they should be on it, too. The claims of the pro‐Prozac chorus are enticing: that it can cure everything from depression (the only disorder for which Prozac was originally approved) to fear of public speaking, PMS, obesity, shyness, migraine, and back pain—with few or no side effects. But is the reality quite different? At what price do we buy Prozac‐induced euphoria and a shiny new personality? Psychiatrist Peter Breggin, MD, and coauthor Ginger Ross Breggin answer these and other crucial questions in Talking Back to Prozac. They explain what Prozac is and how it works, and they take a hard look at the real story behind today’s most controversial drug: The fact that Prozac was tested in trials of four to six weeks in length before receiving FDA approval The difficulty Prozac’s manufacturer had in proving its effectiveness during these tests The information on side effects that the FDA failed to include in its final labeling requirements How Prozac acts as a stimulant not unlike the addictive drugs cocaine and amphetamine The dangers of possible Prozac addiction and abuse The seriousness and frequency of Prozac’s side effects, including agitation, insomnia, nausea, diarrhea, loss of libido, and difficulty reaching orgasm The growing evidence that Prozac can cause violence and suicide The social and workplace implications of using the drug not to cure depression but to change personality and enhance performance Using dramatic case histories as well as scientific research and carefully documented evidence, the Breggins expose the potentially damaging effects of Prozac. They also describe the resounding success that has been achieved with more humane alternatives for the treatment of depression. Talking Back to Prozac provides essential information for anyone who takes Prozac or is considering taking it, and for those who prescribe it.

Author : Lawrence H. Diller
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780307423283

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Running on Ritalin by Lawrence H. Diller Pdf

In a book as provocative and newsworthy as Listening to Prozac and Driven to Distraction, a physician speaks out on America's epidemic level of diagnoses for attention deficit disorder, and on the drug that has become almost a symbol of our times: Ritalin. In 1997 alone, nearly five million people in the United States were prescribed Ritalin--most of them young children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. Use of this drug, which is a stimulant related to amphetamine, has increased by 700 percent since 1990. And this phenomenon appears to be uniquely American: 90 percent of the world's Ritalin is used here. Is this a cause for alarm--or simply the case of an effective treatment meeting a newly discovered need? Important medical advance--or drug of abuse, as some critics claim? Lawrence Diller has written the definitive book about this crucial debate--evenhanded, wide-ranging, and intimate in its knowledge of families, schools, and the pressures of our speeded-up society. As a pediatrician and family therapist, he has evaluated hundreds of children, adolescents, and adults for ADD, and he offers crucial information and treatment options for anyone struggling with this problem. Running on Ritalin also throws a spotlight on some of our most fundamental values and goals. What does Ritalin say about the old conundrums of nature vs. nurture, free will vs. responsibility? Is ADD a disability that entitles us to special treatment? If our best is not good enough, can we find motivation and success in a pill? Is there still a place for childhood in the performance-driven America of the late nineties?

Author : Mark M. Rich
Publisher : Mark M. Rich
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Invisible Eugenics by Mark M. Rich Pdf

Wealthy eugenicist-psychopaths have launched a covert eugenics program to reduce the population. They are attacking citizens with chemical weapons disguised as medicine, which slowly inflict many devastating medical conditions. The victims suffer a reduced lifespan and are removed from the breeding pool. They have established complete control of the public schools which have been transformed into eugenic laboratories. These laboratories are used to identify and destroy any positive values that might foster individual development and to identify those to be attacked. The teachers and doctors are on the frontline working together to identify the resisters who are attacked for life with chemical weapons under the guise of medical treatment. There is a highly coordinated worldwide coverup of the deaths and injuries caused by these weapons. This population control agenda can be traced back to the late 1800s, when they vowed to eliminate certain bloodlines to purify the human race.

Author : Jonathan Metzl
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 082233061X

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Prozac on the Couch by Jonathan Metzl Pdf

Argues that the rise in psychiatric drug treatments was not a radical turn away from psychoanalysis, but instead carries on Freudian assumptions, especially in relation to gender.

Author : Sami Timimi,Jonathan Leo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781137020581

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Rethinking ADHD by Sami Timimi,Jonathan Leo Pdf

This book brings together, for the first time, a selection of international critiques on the role of ADHD in our society today, looking at how diagnoses have increased in recent years and the reasons behind this. Topics range from genetics to social culture, offering a comprehensive overview of this area.

Author : Tom Mason
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781597450065

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Forensic Psychiatry by Tom Mason Pdf

An international panel of experts from diverse specialties examine the idea of "evil" in a medical context, specifically a mental health setting, to consider how the concept can be usefully interpreted, and to elucidate its relationship to forensic psychiatry. The authors challenge the belief that the concept of "evil" plays no role in "scientific" psychiatry and is not helpful to our understanding of aberrant human thinking and behavior. Among the viewpoints up for debate are a consideration of organizations as evil structures, the "medicalization" of evil, destruction as a constructive choice, violence as a secular evil, talking about evil when it is not supposed to exist, and the influence of evil on forensic clinical practice. Among the highlights are a psychological exploration of the notion of "evil" and a variety of interesting research methods used to explore the nature of "evil."

Author : Terence D. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317249153

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White Prescriptions? by Terence D. Fitzgerald Pdf

For all the debates about black males and their role in American society, there has been little attention to a dangerous and growing trend: the overprescription of Ritalin and other behavioral drugs. This book reveals how and why black males are disproportionately targeted and controlled by American schools in ways that hamper and endanger their educational success. Fitzgerald shows how the government, medical practitioners, and the pharmaceuticals industry have facilitated this oppressive trend, setting it against a larger historical backdrop of racism in American education.

Author : Rick Mayes,Catherine Bagwell,Jennifer L. Erkulwater
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-31
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0674031636

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Medicating Children by Rick Mayes,Catherine Bagwell,Jennifer L. Erkulwater Pdf

Integrating analyses of clinical, political, historical, educational, social, economic, and legal aspects of ADHD and stimulant pharmacotherapy, Mayes and colleagues argue that a unique alignment of social and economic factors converged in the early 1990s with greater scientific knowledge to make ADHD the most prevalent pediatric mental disorder.

Author : Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781250108722

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Toxic Psychiatry by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. Pdf

Prozac, Xanax, Halcion, Haldol, Lithium. These psychiatric drugs--and dozens of other short-term "solutions"--are being prescribed by doctors across the country as a quick antidote to depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other psychiatric problems. But at what cost? In this searing, myth-shattering exposé, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., breaks through the hype and false promises surrounding the "New Psychiatry" and shows how dangerous, even potentially brain-damaging, many of its drugs and treatments are. He asserts that: psychiatric drugs are spreading an epidemic of long-term brain damage; mental "illnesses" like schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety disorder have never been proven to be genetic or even physical in origin, but are under the jurisdiction of medical doctors; millions of schoolchildren, housewives, elderly people, and others are labeled with medical diagnoses and treated with authoritarian interventions, rather than being patiently listened to, understood, and helped. Toxic Psychiatry sounds a passionate, much-needed wake-up call for everyone who plays a part, active or passive, in America's ever-increasing dependence on harmful psychiatric drugs.