Psychiatric Drugs: Types, Side-Effects, Dangers and Permanent Damage

There are no "safe" psychiatric drugs. Each has numerous harmful short term and largely unknown long term effects. Each psychiatric drug which was orginally heralded as the new "safe" wonder drug, was found to have severe harmful side effects, including addiction, and withdrawal symptoms, among others. Psychiatric drugs obtain their result by causing brain dysfunction.

Thorazine, a strong tranquilizer, creates a very similar effect to a lobotomy (brain surgery) by disrupting frontal lobe nerve activity. Psychiatrists grossly neglect to point out the potential harm of psychiatric drugs to their patients, such as tardive dyskinesia, tardive dementia, general dulling of awareness, emotional numbing, and cognitive dysfunction. Side effects can occur in as high as 50% or more of patients, depending on the drug and dosages, and often the effects are permanent with no known cure. The following modern psychotropic drugs are all dangerous and should not be used by anybody under an circumstances (follow links for detailed information):

Psychiatric Drugs: Cure or Quackery? - by Lawrence Stevens, J.D.

1) Neuroleptics (anti-psychotic agents, major tranquilizers) - Such as Haldol, Prolixin, Thorazine, Mellaril, Stelazine, Vesprin, Clozaril, Navane, Trilafon, Tindal, Taractan, and Compazine.

2) Tricyclic Antidepressants such as Tofranil, Elavil, Adapin, Surmontil, Norpramin, Pamelor, Aventyl, Vivactil, and Anafranil.

3) Atypical Antidepressants such as Asendin, Ludiomil, Desyrel, and Wellbutrin.

4) Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (very dangerous antidepessant agents) such as Marplan, Nardil, Parnate, Eldepryl, and Eutonyl.

5) Lithium

6) Prozac

7) Xanax

7) Minor Tranquilizers - such as Xanax, Valium, Librium, BuSpar, Ativan, Halcion, Tranxene, Paxipam, Centrax, Klonopin, Dalmane, Serax, Ativan, Restoril, Miltown, Equanil, Atarax and Vistaril.

8) ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) & ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) drugs (psychostimulants - "speed") - Such as Ritalin (highly addictive), Dexedrine, and Cylert.

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