Word: breggin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...horrendous situation," Breggin said. "I was not prepared for the myths I was told. The mythology was that it wasn't bad to do terrible things to these people...
From there, Breggin said he studied to become a doctor and psychiatrist. However, he said, the profession took a serious downturn in the 1960s...
...accepting money from large drug companies, Breggin said, the American Psychiatric Association took part in an unhealthy partnership that biased them to use often poorly-tested and unnecessary drugs...
...Breggin mentioned the tremendous popularity of Prozac and Ritalin as an example of this trend and said that any criticism of the drugs has been very quiet...
...example, Breggin cited the first product liability case against pharmaceutical company Eli Lily, which produces Prozac, in which Prozac was blamed for a murder-suicide tragedy in Kentucky. Breggin said that although the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Eli Lily had rigged the trial, the case received little media coverage...