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Calling the field of psychiatry "fundamentally flawed," psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin '58 decried the affects of popularly perscribed psychiatric drugs like Prozac and Ritalin last night in a speech to about 60 spectators at the Science Center...
...much-criticized author of Talking Back to Prozac and Talking Back to Ritalin, Breggin, who was a Crimson editor, said his interest in psychiatry stemmed from participating in and directing a Phillips Brooks House program which sent 200 volunteers to a local psychiatric hospital when he was a Harvard undergraduate. Working with the patients, he was appalled by the way they were treated...
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...
Breggin was equally critical of Ritalin, a drug often used to treat children with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). He said the effects of the addictive drug essentially take away young people's personalities...
...Addicts of Ritalin will sit around...doing stupid tasks that require no initiative and have no novelty," Breggin said. "Children become more complaint. They'll sit down and do these stupid things, so long as we drug them...