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Pillaged - Psychiatric Medications and Suicide Risk (Hardcover)
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Pillaged - Psychiatric Medications and Suicide Risk (Hardcover)
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It is estimated that forty-five to fifty percent of all Americans
will suffer a mental disorder at some time during their lives.
Increasingly, the treatment for these disorders is management with
one or more psychiatric drugs, often prescribed by general
practitioners. In Pillaged Ronald William Maris evaluates the
psychiatric medications commonly used to treat several major types
of psychiatric disorders - including depression and mood disorders,
bipolar disorders, anxiety disorders, and psychotic disorders -
asking "do they work as advertised?" and, more importantly, "are
they safe?" Answers to these questions are more ambiguous than we
might think, Maris explains, because drug manufacturers tend to
minimize the adverse effects of their products. Furthermore, the
underlying neurobiological theories of how psychiatric drugs work
are complex, poorly understood, and often conflicting. Still
Americans spend tens of billions of dollars a year on
antidepressants and antipsychotics alone. While Maris questions the
rampant prescribing of psychiatric medications especially in young
people, Pillaged does not suggest that anyone cavalierly
discontinue potentially beneficial psychiatric medications without
the advice of a qualified mental health professional. The book
acknowledges that psychiatric medications are often necessary in
treating some psychiatric conditions, but it reminds readers of
medication's potential for degrading one's quality of life,
contributing to self-destructive behaviors, and even leading to
death in a vulnerable minority of patients. Maris advocates an open
and honest discussion of data on psychiatric drugs, their effects,
and their dangers, and he reminds readers of available alternative,
nondrug treatments for psychiatric disorders. By reviewing the
history and effects of medications for mental disorders, Maris
hopes to educate health care consumers and prescribers to make
careful, informed decisions about the treatment of psychiatric
disorders.
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