Martin Harrow: The Galileo of Modern Psychiatry (1933 – 2023)
antipsychotics
The experiences of 585 people when they tried to withdraw from antipsychotic drugs
This research paper from Prof. John Read has been published in Addictive Behaviors Reports. The abstract says: “Introduction Many recipients of antipsychotic drugs try to stop taking them, primarily because of distressing adverse effects. Little research has been undertaken into the withdrawal…
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What Is the Importance of Nassir Ghaemi’s Conclusion that Psychiatric Drugs Do Not Provide a Long-term Benefit?
Prescribing Antipsychotics in First Episode Psychosis
The Case Against Antipsychotics: A Review of Their Long-term Effects
This publication (2016) from the Mad in America Foundation has been written by Robert Whitaker. The author says it is: “… designed to present a succinct review of what science has to say about the long-term effects of antipsychotics. Do they…
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Why popping a pill for every emotional problem is madness: Antidepressants and antipsychotics are now doled out in their millions… but an expert argues they can make your condition WORSE
‘They saw me as mad and needing to be medicated’ | Modern Masculinity
Real-world effectiveness of antipsychotic treatment in psychosis prevention in a 3-year cohort of 517 individuals at clinical high risk from the SHARP (ShangHai At Risk for Psychosis)
Twenty-year effects of antipsychotics in schizophrenia and affective psychotic disorders
The BBC, Harrow, and a Public Left in the Dark
“Martin Harrow and Thomas Jobe began their study, which was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, in the late 1970s. They enrolled 200 psychotic patients who had been treated conventionally in a mental hospital with antipsychotics and simply…
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