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The following is a brief list of important websites where you can get more information about the harmful effects of psychiatric drugs, alternatives and natural healing, withdrawal information, and more. The International Coalition For Drug Awareness Peter Breggin, M.D. - Psychiatric Drug Facts
The International
Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights Doctor Yourself - Natural Healing & Orthomolecular Medicine Paxil Progress- Good Withdrawal Support Forum Teen Screen Truth- Documenting Numerous Cases of Violence
Citizens
Commission on Human Rights
Gwen Olsen - Author of
Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher
Let Them Eat Prozac - Dr. David Healy For an up-to-the-minute list of additional websites recommended by our members, please visit: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/uniteforlife/links
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comprehensive
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Mental Health Medication Awareness A site by Julie Yankowski, a Co-Founder of CHAADA http://www.freewebs.com/stopthemadness_now/index.htm "...Medications that are supposed to be mood stabilizing and improve a person’s quality of life are actually doing the opposite for many patients.
...The
theory that I had a dissociative disorder was seriously
discussed towards the end of my treatment. Dissociative
disorder – I should say so! I had so many personalities,
voices, delusions, and hallucinations while on medications
throughout this experience that I even thought I was splitting
into different entities! It was hard not to believe otherwise
with what was going on in my head and the influence of the
medical professionals being so overbearing. Since I no longer
have these “symptoms” or more appropriately adverse and
traumatic side effects, the only explanation was the
medication."
Information on
safely tapering off of SSRIs:
"Over a ten-year period
Prozac was associated with more
hospitalizations, deaths, or
other serious adverse reactions
reported to the FDA than any
other drug in America. Two
similar drugs for depression,
Paxil and Zoloft, are of similar
toxicity."
THOMAS J. MOORE, Prescription for Disaster: The Hidden Dangers in Your Medicine Cabinet, 1998
Yahoo groups
moderated by
Lynn Michaels These important resources, SSRI Research and Taper Safely newgroups send frequent e-mails containing timely news stories and other documents about medications as well as psychiatry's impact on society. The first thing you see when you visit the SSRI Research yahoo group home page is a photograph of 19 year old Traci Johnson, who died from a drug-induced suicide in an Ely Lilly lab during a Cymbalta clinical study. The drug-makers would have you believe that no deaths and suicides occur during these trials, and that their medications are safe. But the truth is chilling, and you can make a difference by distributing the information obtained on this site.
"We live in an era
in which 98% of pharmaceutical preparations have no proven
beneficial effects, in which the pharmaceutical industry has
created the fourth largest cause of death herself, the side
effects of medication, with the sole purpose of creating new
markets for its products." -- Matthias Rath, M.D., 1999
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A site by
Linda Valentine This site contains information about the effects of SSRIs and neuroleptic or "anti-psychotic" drugs, and provides much-needed information about where to learn more, and where to go for help if you are caught in the system. "WE HAVE WATCHED OUR ONLY CHILD CRAWL THROUGH THE ENDLESS NIGHTMARE CALLED "PSYCHIATRY." WE REFUSED TO BELIEVE ANY OF THEIR "LABELS & LIES." WE HAVE BEEN IN THE PITS OF THEIR COERCIVE, ABUSING SYSTEM AND MANY OF MY FRIENDS WHO ARE ALSO DEALING WITH THESE CRIMINALS HAVE BEEN EXACTLY WHERE WE HAVE BEEN. WE HAVE WITNESSED THE DAMAGES AND DISFIGUREMENTS OF HUNDREDS OF PSYCHIATRIC CLIENTS WHO ARE USUALLY OWNED BY THE STATE & COUNTY. THEY ARE ALL WORTH BIG BUCKS AND CAN BE USED FOR EXPERIMENTAL PURPOSES BECAUSE OF THE PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN THE SYSTEM AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL RACKETS. IT IS VERY, VERY SAD TO WATCH AS THEY DESTROY FAMILIES, HUMANS AND LIFE!"
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A website by
Jan Hunt This inspirational website provides assistance to parents looking for support in raising children in a nurturing, loving environment without drugs. There are many articles on learning, information on the ADHD hoax as well as anti-drug advocacy bumper stickers, and more. Here is an excellent excerpt from "The Great A.D.D. Hoax" by David Keirsey: "The reason I speak of a hoax in the case of "attention deficit disorder" is that there is no such "mental disorder" to "diagnose" and "treat." And the reason I speak of a great hoax is that the less competent medical practitioners use this phony "diagnosis" as a warrant to "treat" millions of school children (over 5,000,000) per year by intoxicating them with brain-disabling narcotics.And make no mistake about the power of Ritalin to disable and eventually shrink the brain. It differs little in its destructive effects from cocaine and the amphetamines, and is fast becoming the drug of choice among addicts in high schools and colleges. Children in middle schools and high schools who are required to take Ritalin daily at school are now selling their pills to their friends who want to get a quick fix. Of late the victims of pill pushers are fast becoming pill pushers themselves! ...The other problem with the idea of attention deficit is that the medics apparently believe it is caused by its symptoms. For sure the medics have got it backwards, and some of us are surprised that they haven't noticed such an obvious error. Even though medical practitioners aren't scientists, they ought to know better than that. It's preposterous to say that the symptoms of attention deficit cause the deficit of attention. Even though preposterous, the medics seem to mean what they say. For example they say that "Some hyperactive-impulsive or inattentive symptoms that cause impairment must have been present before age 7 years." Also they say that "Some impairment from the symptoms must be present in at least two settings (e.g. at school [or work] and at home)." [DSM IV, italics mine] If I were a medic I'd be embarrassed by this sort of talk, and I suppose that the more competent medics are somewhat embarrassed by this obvious error. In any case the essay on attention deficit in the DSM-IV is so poorly written that it's a wonder anybody takes it seriously. Unfortunately a lot of medical practitioners in America do take it seriously and even (to my embarrassment) so do some psychologists." ◦◦◦top◦◦◦member sites◦◦◦local health resources◦◦◦no-harm pledge The Elizabeth Torlakson Foundation
This
sobering website is a tribute to James Torlakson's daughter,
Elizabeth, who became a victim of psychiatry and drug-induced
suicide. See also the website
www.jamestorlakson.com
for ordering information for the
Truth Trust lapel pin featured in our
Virginia Tech Death By Drugs
video
Woody Matters
Alcoholism Again "...We have many places to draw the battle lines in our fight for truth and against stigma. Why not make the first line in the sand a claim for positive terminology. Reject "substance abuse." Let's hear it for "addiction recovery." The vast majority of us have never willfully abused alcohol or other drugs. Nor have we been afflicted with mental illness. And the vast majority of us will completely recover. The problem is that we have been taught to hide our recovery to avoid stigma! So let's come out of the closet. Let's hear it for Recovery! ...A continuing storm of protest from around the Nation reaching Senator Harold Hughes, the prime mover and architect of the national reform, has supported him in introducing Senate Bill No. 3644, to totally remove the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism from National Institute of Mental Health jurisdiction. Whether the proposed legislation passes or not, Federal Administration sources have issued advisory statements, for example in the Uniform Alcoholism and Intoxication Treatment Act, indicating that alcoholism should not be subordinated to mental health but should have separate, autonomous status at State levels of government. ...We recommend that alcoholism at the State level be moved out of the jurisdictional area associated with mental health into an organization, such as the Service Delivery Division or Health Services Division, with a health perspective broad enough to accommodate the fully comprehensive alcoholism reform program. The new organizational setting should provide for as much alcoholism program autonomy as feasible within the limits of sound administrative policy. Concurrently, local officials throughout the State should be informed of the change and advised to look to their County Councils on Alcoholism for leadership in the planning, implementation, and administration of comprehensive local alcoholism programs. Primary contracts, third party agreements, and affiliations with various local community agencies (including Mental Health for its special services) could, of course, be negotiated directly by the County Alcoholism Councils.
We recommend that the Washington State Council on Alcoholism be
officially appointed to serve as an advisory board to the State
Alcoholism Section and to the administrative organization
responsible for its supervision. The Council would be called
upon to deliberate and advise on the administrative and program
issues of policy, personnel, Federal and local relationships,
public and professional relations, and general program
evaluation and improvement. We are prepared to immediately enter
into coordination to the end that this recommendation may be
implemented."
COPES Foundation: Coalition Of Parents Enduring Suicide 
"My Crusade is to
Abolish Suicide-Causing Anti-Depressants. There is strength
in numbers, I need the support of those who hold this issue
close to their hearts; to assure that other parents and
their children live a happy life without pain and without
suicide. My Campaign is to pass a Bill which will
ultimately become 'Sarina’s Law.' "
Click here to read more about the proposed New Mexico Memorial SM009, which would establish a commission to investigate and make recommendations on antidepressants.
In Memoriam
Sarina Angel Cuoco
We are a
non-profit organization Stop Foundation Inc. 503(C) 3
pending and free speech advocates devoted to the public
awareness of psychotropic drugs. We have and we are
continuing to create a wealth of information from scholars,
MD's, psychiatrists, judges, authors, the FDA, Foreign
Governments, journalist news reports and victims of the
tragedies that antidepressants have been connected to.
http://www.stoprx.org/index.html
Also visit them on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/stoprx ◦◦◦top◦◦◦member sites◦◦◦local health resources◦◦◦no-harm pledge
Books
The International Chiropractic Pediatric Association: www.icpa4kids.org The International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) is a non-profit organization of chiropractic family practitioners dedicated to advancing public awareness and attainment of the chiropractic family wellness lifestyle.
Chiropractic
care for children offers your family a solid foundation for
wellness. Throughout pregnancy, birth, and childhood, the
chiropractic lifestyle offers choices and benefits for your
greater health and well-being.
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