<BR><BR><B><I>mindfreedom-news@intenex.net</I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">To: "News: Human Rights in Mental Health" <MindFreedom-News@intenex.net><BR>Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:15:55 -0800<BR>CC: <BR>From: mindfreedom-news@intenex.net<BR>Subject: MF-News: Media Look at 'Antipsychotic' Drug Abuse,<BR>MFI Calls for Investigations<BR><BR><BR>MindFreedom International News - 6 January 2008<BR>http://www.mindfreedom.org - please forward<BR><BR>Mainstream Media and Research Community Express Concern About:<BR><BR>Massive Increased Use of Neuroleptic ('Antipsychotic') <BR>Psychiatric Drugs<BR><BR>Targets Include: Youth, Foster Care, Nursing Homes<BR><BR>Neuroleptics Can Cause Brain Shrinkage of Frontal Lobes<BR><BR>MindFreedom International Calls for "Multiple Emergency <BR>Investigations"<BR><BR>Mainstream media and the academic research community are increasingly <BR>casting a critical eye
on the enormous increased prescriptions of the <BR>powerful neuroleptic -- also known as 'antipsychotic' -- psychiatric <BR>drugs.<BR><BR>MindFreedom International is calling for emergency investigations at <BR>multiple levels of government, see:<BR><BR>http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/usa/antipsychotic<BR><BR>The MFI free web call-in show this Wednesday, 9 January 2009 at 4 pm <BR>ET will focus on this topic, at that time click on http://prncomm.net/<BR><BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR><BR>MEDIA INVESTIGATIONS INCLUDE:<BR><BR>* PBS: USA national television show PBS Frontline *this* Tuesday, 8 <BR>January 2008 will investigate the massive increase of neuroleptic <BR>drugs being given to children. For info on the PBS show go here:<BR><BR>http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/youth-mental-health/pbs-on-psychiatric- <BR>drugging-youth<BR><BR>or use this web address: http://tinyurl.com/29e4zk<BR><BR>* NY Times on 4 January 2008 revealed a recent research that showed <BR>that neuroleptics can
actually increase rather than decrease <BR>aggression, in a study of individuals diagnosed with cognitive <BR>disabilities. More info:<BR><BR>http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psychiatric-drugs/antipsychotics/ <BR>nytimes-violence-neuroleptics<BR><BR>or use this web address: http://tinyurl.com/2ya23h<BR><BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR><BR>MindFreedom International calls for World Health Organization, US <BR>government officials, state and local governments, to all investigate <BR>neuroleptics on an emergency basis.<BR><BR>See:<BR><BR>http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/usa/antipsychotic<BR><BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR><BR>SPEAK OUT ON MFI LIVE FREE WEB RADIO THIS WEDNESDAY!<BR><BR>YOU ARE INVITED to speak out on a free live call-in web radio show <BR>this Wednesday, 9 January 2008 at 4 pm eastern time, at that time <BR>just click on:<BR><BR>http://prncomm.net/<BR><BR>For more info on this Wednesday's live free web call-in radio show go
<BR>here:<BR><BR>http://www.mindfreedom.org/next-radio<BR><BR>Host is David W. Oaks, Director, MindFreedom International, and a <BR>survivor of neuroleptics.<BR><BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR><BR>Neuroleptics can cause brain damage. Brain scans, animal studies, and <BR>autopsy research have revealed that neuroleptics, especially when <BR>given long-term at high-dosage, can cause such severe structural <BR>brain damage that frontal lobe brain shrinkage can be seen.<BR><BR>For more info go to:<BR><BR>http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/psychiatric-drugs/antipsychotics/ <BR>neuroleptic-brain-damage<BR><BR>or use this web address: http://tinyurl.com/ypj8vf<BR><BR>MindFreedom is pro-choice on the use of prescribed psychiatric drugs, <BR>and many MFI members choose to take them. But all members are united <BR>in speaking out against the emergency level of human rights <BR>violations associated with neuroleptics without adequate advocacy, <BR>alternatives or
information.<BR><BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR><BR>More news at the MindFreedom News Web Site:<BR><BR>http://www.mindfreedom.org<BR><BR>Don't see a news item? Submit it to news@mindfreedom.org<BR><BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR><BR>Build united strength in numbers!<BR><BR>JOIN MINDFREEDOM INTERNATIONAL!<BR><BR>http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate<BR><BR>* Win human rights campaigns in mental health.<BR><BR>* End abuse by the psychiatric drug industry.<BR><BR>* Support self-determination of psychiatric survivors.<BR><BR>* Promote safe, humane, effective options in mental health.<BR><BR>MindFreedom is a nonprofit human rights group that unites 100 sponsor <BR>and affiliate groups with individual members.<BR><BR>MindFreedom is one of the very few totally independent activist <BR>groups in the mental health field with no funding from governments, <BR>drug companies, religions, corporations, or the mental health system.<BR><BR>All human rights supporters are invited to join or donate
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