When award-winning science journalist Robert Whitaker realized that between 1987 and 2007 the number of patients with mental illness disabilities had nearly tripled, in parallel with a dramatic increase in psychotropic drug production, he began to reflect.
It seems as if these psychopharmaceuticals are "magic bullets" that leave mental illness out of the game, reintegrating patients into the ranks of productive citizenship. But numerous clinical studies published more than 50 years ago in prestigious scientific journals revealed a surprising anomaly: psychiatric drugs repeatedly worsen mental illness, and trigger the risks of liver damage, weight gain, cholesterol, or blood sugar. It is not really known what causes mental illness, no cure or palliative treatment found in those pills. Whitaker's findings, after examining these drugs through the prism of long-term results, expose...read more