MF-News: Media Look at 'Antipsychotic' Drug Abuse, MFI Calls for Investigations

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MindFreedom International News - 6 January 2008
http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward

    Mainstream Media and Research Community Express Concern About:

    Massive Increased Use of Neuroleptic ('Antipsychotic')  
Psychiatric Drugs

    Targets Include: Youth, Foster Care, Nursing Homes

    Neuroleptics Can Cause Brain Shrinkage of Frontal Lobes

    MindFreedom International Calls for "Multiple Emergency  
Investigations"

Mainstream media and the academic research community are increasingly  
casting a critical eye on the enormous increased prescriptions of the  
powerful neuroleptic -- also known as 'antipsychotic' -- psychiatric  
drugs.

MindFreedom International is calling for emergency investigations at  
multiple levels of government, see:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/usa/antipsychotic

The MFI free web call-in show this Wednesday, 9 January 2009 at 4 pm  
ET will focus on this topic, at that time click on http://prncomm.net/

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MEDIA INVESTIGATIONS INCLUDE:

* PBS: USA national television show PBS Frontline *this* Tuesday, 8  
January 2008 will investigate the massive increase of neuroleptic  
drugs being given to children. For info on the PBS show go here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/pbs-on-psychiatric- 
drugging-youth

or use this web address: http://tinyurl.com/29e4zk

* NY Times on 4 January 2008 revealed a recent research that showed  
that neuroleptics can actually increase rather than decrease  
aggression, in a study of individuals diagnosed with cognitive  
disabilities. More info:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psychiatric-drugs/antipsychotics/ 
nytimes-violence-neuroleptics

or use this web address: http://tinyurl.com/2ya23h

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MindFreedom International calls for World Health Organization, US  
government officials, state and local governments, to all investigate  
neuroleptics on an emergency basis.

See:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/usa/antipsychotic

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SPEAK OUT ON MFI LIVE FREE WEB RADIO THIS WEDNESDAY!

YOU ARE INVITED to speak out on a free live call-in web radio show  
this Wednesday, 9 January 2008 at 4 pm eastern time, at that time  
just click on:

http://prncomm.net/

For more info on this Wednesday's live free web call-in radio show go  
here:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/next-radio

Host is David W. Oaks, Director, MindFreedom International, and a  
survivor of neuroleptics.

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Neuroleptics can cause brain damage. Brain scans, animal studies, and  
autopsy research have revealed that neuroleptics, especially when  
given long-term at high-dosage, can cause such severe structural  
brain damage that frontal lobe brain shrinkage can be seen.

For more info go to:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psychiatric-drugs/antipsychotics/ 
neuroleptic-brain-damage

or use this web address: http://tinyurl.com/ypj8vf

MindFreedom is pro-choice on the use of prescribed psychiatric drugs,  
and many MFI members choose to take them. But all members are united  
in speaking out against the emergency level of human rights  
violations associated with neuroleptics without adequate advocacy,  
alternatives or information.

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