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Latest News Something we can all agree on In this highly politicized season, is there something we can all agree upon? I think so. From the political left or right, we should be able to come together around […]
Latest News Something we can all agree on In this highly politicized season, is there something we can all agree upon? I think so. From the political left or right, we should be able to come together around […]
Lacuzong product liability case against GlaxoSmithKline (makers of Paxil®) The suit Lacuzong v. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) was brought by the widow of a man who drowned their two children and himself in a tub after taking Paxil for three days. The case was “resolved” to the satisfaction of the family; the […]
A report by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. The British Medical Journal (BMJ) recently received a series of in-house Eli Lilly documents concerning Prozac from an anonymous source. The BMJ then forwarded the documents to other authorities, including Congressman Maurice Hinchey and the FDA. Congressman Hinchey then distributed the documents to […]
Out of stock This book is not currently available from Dr. Breggin. You can, however, order it from Amazon.com.
International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine 12 (1993) 3-35 IOS Press Psychostimulants in the treatment of children diagnosed with ADHD: Risks and Mechanisms of Action Peter R. Breggin Director, International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) Abstract: Millions of children in North America are diagnosed […]
The need to ban electroconvulsive therapy by Peter R. Breggin.M.D. (excerpts from Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry ) I have long argued that ECT is an ineffective, dangerous, anachronistic treatment that should be abandoned by modern psychiatry. Yet, despite the urging of many victims of ECT, I refused for many […]
Presented to the “ECT Study Committee” of the Vermont State legislature on July 17, 2000 by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. Director, International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology Two pages–Revised after live report to the committee ECT should be banned. It is so damaging and ineffective that the […]
March 20, 2000 ICSPP Calls for Moratorium on Psychiatric Medicating of Young Children The call for a moratorium is made in response to Hillary Clinton’s efforts to allay public concerns about the drugging of children age two to four years old. The White House announced concern today about […]
Lobotomy by Any Other Name Commentary by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. On August 4, 2003 the Los Angeles Times published a story by Benedict Carey on the “New Psychosurgery” being conducted at medical centers at Harvard University and Brown. The syndicated report was republished around the country as recently as […]
Patient Dies in Clinical Drug Trial: Menninger Clinic Found Negligent by Jury In mid-December 2001, a jury found the Menninger Clinic (then of Topeka, KS, now relocated to Houston, TX) negligent in the treatment of an individual who was placed in a clinical trial in which he received an […]