Your Drug May be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications - Rilegato

Breggin M.D., Peter Roger; Cohen, David

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ISBN 10: 0738201847 ISBN 13: 9780738201849

Casa editrice: Da Capo Press Inc, 1999

Riassunto

The first book to expose the shortcomings of psychiatric drugs and to guide patients and doctors through the process of withdrawing from them. Well over ten million Americans are prescribed a psychiatric medication annually, for symptoms as varied as headache and insomnia to depression and various psychiatric disorders. Unbelievably, many of these drugs have not been formally tested to treat the problems for which they have been prescribed. Scientifically documenting the need for an end to this vicious cycle of inadequate approval, mis-medication, and irresponsible inattention to adverse side effects, Breggin and Cohen advocate compassionate and non-toxic therapies, and offer readers a roadmap for sensible, safe withdrawal from psychiatric drugs.Whether the drug is a sleeping pill, tranquilizer, stimulant, antidepressant, mood stabilizer, or antipsychotic, Your Drug May Be Your Problem reveals its documented withdrawal symptoms, demonstrating what many doctors dont know, understand, or consider: withdrawal symptoms often mimic the symptoms for which a person has been medicated in the first place, a fact that frequently prompts doctors to mistakenly re-medicate their patients at eve

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Informazioni sull'autore

Peter R. Breggin, M.D., is the author of a dozen books, including Talking Back to Prozac and The Antidepressant Factbook. He lives in Ithaca, New York.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Da Capo Press Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0738201847
• ISBN 13: 9780738201849
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile