Early Death Associated With Antipsychotics
There are a vast number of studies that document the diverse range of side effects caused by antipsychotic drugs. These adverse effects include brain...
Antidepressants/Depression
A. The Natural Course of Depression
Prior to the widespread use of antidepressants, the National Institute of Mental Health told the public that people regularly...
A Research Timeline for Antipsychotic Drugs
1883 Phenothiazines developed as synthetic dyes
1934 USDA develops phenothiazines as insecticides
1938 Phenothiazines used to kill swine parasites
1949 ...
Antipsychotics/Schizophrenia
The long-term outcomes literature for antipsychotics, which has been compiled over a period of nearly 50 years, consistently tells of drugs that increase the...
Polypharmacy/Bipolar illness
A. Bipolar Illness Before the Psychopharmacology Era
Prior to 1955, bipolar illness was a rare disorder. There were only 12,750 people hospitalized with that disorder...
Antipsychotics and Chronic Illness
A. The Chronicity Problem Becomes Apparent (1960s-1979s)
It seems paradoxical that drugs that ameliorate acute psychotic symptoms over the short term will increase the likelihood...
Outcomes in the Era of Atypical Antipsychotics
Once second-generation antipsychotic drugs came on the market (which are known as “atypicals”), there were claims by psychiatric researchers that they would lead to...
