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Bergner’s piece in The New York Times challenged the illusions of psychiatry. That made some people outraged. The comments section shows it.

The antipsychotic risperidone is associated with small dose-related increases in weight and blood cholesterol levels over time, a large new study suggests.

A new guideline provides a protocol for the use of metformin, an inexpensive drug that has the most evidence for efficacy against antipsychotic-induced weight gain.

I decided to lay out, in as succinct a manner as I could, the case against antipsychotics by simply reporting on psychiatry’s own research.

He needed help. thirty years ago the cops would have brought him to a psychiatric emergency room. emergency room, he probably would he probably would have gone antipsychotics and he probably would have been hospitalized h w for a couple ofay weeks. that's the way it was done in the 70s. when i practiced psychiatry. but today that doesn't happen. the cops left he was left on his ownho. he was a man who shouldn't have been on his own. he should have had to starten looking after him and he ended up killing people in a way that look, you want to respect the civil liberties of everybody. but there ...