Psychiatric drugs can make things worse

THE annual 2002 report by the inspector of mental hospitals, Dr Dermot Walsh, gives serious cause for concern.

Irish psychiatrists are believed to be spending too much time enjoying lavish overseas trips organised by drugs companies and there is evidence that “unscientific material aimed at influencing prescribing practice” may have taken place.

There is a further problem in that many people being prescribed psychiatric drugs report many adverse and serious symptoms as a result of these drugs. For instance, tardive dyskinesia and tardive akathisia are serious neurological disorders which even neurologists and psychiatrists admit are caused by psychiatric drugs.