Emergency room Quote by Allen Frances

[Psychiatric] drugs have so many side effects because using them to treat a complex psychiatric disorder is a bit like trying to change your…

— Suman Rai

“I've been accustomed to mysteries, holy and otherwise, since I was a child. Some of us care for orphans, amass fortunes, raise protests or…

— David Lovelace

The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and…

— Marcia Angell

“Some people, a relatively small minority, are at grave risk for addiction if exposed to certain substances. For this minority, exposure to drugs really…

— Gabor Maté

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“The more a sufferer concentrates on his symptoms, the deeper those symptoms are etched into his neural circuits. In the worst cases, the mind…

— Nicholas Carr

“We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is quite clear.…

— Robert Whitaker

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

— Tim Robbins

“[In late 1989,] a New York Times/CBS News Poll reported that 64 percent of those polled—the highest percentage ever recorded—now thought that drugs were…

— Michelle Alexander

I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

— Temple Grandin

“The whole notion that ADHD is a specific disease easily remedied by a pill is convenient but alarming. In several schools throughout the United…

— David Perlmutter

The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the brain…

— Anonymous