USA (SANEPR.com) June 30, 2008 -- As more and more doctors prescribe medication, especially psychiatric and sleeping drugs, it is important for people to understand how it will affect them in the days, weeks, months and years after they take their first dose. Dr. Breggin offers insights into some of the myths perpetrated by pharmaceutical company marketing materials about psychiatric medications, such as "Your Doctor Knows What's Best For You," "Psychiatric Drugs Correct Biochemical Imbalances," and "You Will Have to Take Them For the Rest of Your Life." What you don't know about drugs could destroy your life.
Dr. Peter Breggin is acclaimed author of Toxic Psychiatry and Talking Back to Prozac. A psychiatrist expert in clinical psychopharmacology, he is Harvard-trained and a former full-time consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health. Breggin is on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, and has taught at Johns Hopkins and George Mason. His views have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time and Newsweek.
Dr. Robert Fink, a board-certified neurosurgeon, has practiced neurosurgery in the San Francisco Bay Area for nearly 40 years, is a clinical professor at University of California San Francisco's Medical School, and is now semi-retired, writing and serving as a legal consultant. Dr. Fink's latest writings appears in End-of-Life Communication in the ICU: A Global Perspective. Dr. Fink has had numerous celebrity patients, and has helped numerous patients addicted to prescription medications.
Full Power Living, created and hosted by Ilene Dillon, M.S.W. and aired since 2004, is the only show on international media dedicated to "awakening the world to the power and importance of human emotions." Past guests include Drs. Jean Shinoda Bolen, Bruce Lipton, Harville Hendrix and Candace Pert, funnyman Bruce Cameron and Sports Illustrated's Austin Murphy.
With over 180 shows available 24/7, live broadcast is 9 a.m. PT Thursdays (www.ideocast.com/show.asp?aid=157). Dr. Peter Breggin and Dr. Robert Fink expose the dangers of mood altering medications on July 17. Listen, Call in toll free (800-630-7858) and Chat July 17 at 9 am PT.
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