The official voice of the American Psychiatric Association covers the short and long term side-effects of antipsychotics and promotes the use of therapeutic alternatives with children. “Antipsychotics have serious short-term side effects among children, and more extended, longitudinal data on their safety in this particularly vulnerable age group do not exist.”
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That’s funny that this should be admitted about children, because long-term data about the risk and harms of antipsychotic drugs in adults is similarly lacking, yet the APA doesn’t yet have the guts to come out and admit that.
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There’s plenty of evidence about the long-term risks of antipsychotics in adults, both the older drugs and the atypicals. If the APA doesn’t talk about it, that’s probably the reason.
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“Alternatives therapies before anti-psychotics” is somewhere on the same moral continuum as “anti-psychotics before euthanasia.”
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What ‘antipsychotics’ do is create a weakness in the system. Nobody should take ‘antipsychotics’ as a first resort (or ever).
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This wreaks of a slice of a guilty conscious, no couldn’t be, there’s only one conscience within the entire psychiatric industry.
As to that “moral continuum,” seems antipsychotics and euthenasia are pretty close to the same thing – murder vs torture, which is better? which is worse? Personally, I think being murdered would have been easier, than the defamation and torture I lived through. I guess it depends upon what other “alternative therapies” the APA has in mind for the children, blood letting, lobotomies, ECT?
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