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Subject: Fw: MF-News: Media Look at 'Antipsychotic' Drug Abuse,MFI Calls for
Investigations
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> To: "News: Human Rights in Mental Health" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: 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/
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> 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
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> 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
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> 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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>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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