Antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drugs have become some of the biggest
blockbusters of the early 21st century, increasingly prescribed not
just to people with 'schizophrenia' or other severe forms of mental
disturbance but for a range of more common psychological
complaints. This book challenges the accepted account that portrays
antipsychotics as specific treatments that target an underlying
brain disease and explores early views that suggested, in contrast,
that antipsychotics achieve their effects by inducing a state of
neurological suppression. Professional enthusiasm for
antipsychotics eclipsed this understanding, exaggerated the
benefits of antipsychotics and minimized or ignored evidence of
their toxic effects. The pharmaceutical industry has been involved
in expanding the use of antipsychotics into territory where it is
likely that their dangers far outweigh their advantages.
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