The Anti-Depressant Fact Book
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Adv Drug React Toxicol Rev 2002; 21 (1-2): 121 0964-198X/02/0001-0121/$25.00/0 © Adis International Limited. All rights reserved.
The Anti-Depressant Fact Book Authored by Peter R. Breggin. Perseus Publishing: Cambridge, MA, 2001. ISBN 0-7382-0451-X
The object of this book is stated to be ‘above all else to encourage a healthy scepticism towards the claims made for antidepressant drugs’. The author has acted as medical expert in a large number of law suits brought by patients, or patient groups, or patients’ relatives relating to the adverse effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) on their behaviour involving actions including murder and mood changes even leading to suicide. There are a total of 16 chapters, the titles of which give a flavour to the nature of the book, e.g. Chapter 2 – Damaging the Brain with SSRI Antidepressants; Chapter 3 – Dangerously Stimulating the Brain and Mind with Antidepressants; Chapter 4 – Multiple Additional Risks when Taking SSRI
Antidepressants; Chapter 6 – Depression and Suicide Caused by Antidepressants; Chapter 7 – Criminal Behaviour and Violence Caused by Antidepressants. Other chapters identify what can only be described as ‘dirty tricks’ by the drug manufacturers, e.g. Chapter 15 is entitled ‘How Drug Companies can Deceive the Courts, the Medical Profession and the Public’. If these accusations are untrue then it is difficult to see why the manufacturers, whom the author has claimed to have perpetrated these deeds, have not sued him/her and the publishers for every penny they possess. The fact that Dr Breggin has not been sued and neither have the publishers of this book makes it worth reading for the contents of this chapter alone. It is certainly worth any member of the legal profession involved in litigation against a pharmaceutical company investing half an hour to read chapter 15 despite the events being set in a very US orientated system.
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