Posted by Squiggles on May 3, 2002, at 16:30:35
In reply to Re: Peter Breggin M.D.}}kid47 Cam's post, posted by Phil on May 2, 2002, at 17:51:48
Hi Cam,
The reference to Peter Breggin caught my eye.
That's because I know of his work through
my stay at Benzoland.Well, first I have to disagree with you
on the medicine point; I don't think medicine
is a science (maybe it should be) - I really
think it's an art, and in the case of psychiatry
possibly a very poorly practiced art.Anyway, to see this perspective on Breggin
is interesting. I noticed that he recently
won a suit for tardive dyskinesia for something
like $7 million dollars. I also just heard
(I live in CANADA) of a poor kid who was crushed
by a falling soccer stand, and won something
like six hundred and seventy-thousand dollars
in damages from the city (it may go up). My
husband said that is the difference between
the States and here - but you see the discrepancy.Anyway, what matters is not so much the money,
but that people who suffer from drug damage
are represented. I guess that is what he is doing.What I am curious about, is the statistics
on this matter of say how many benefit from
Prozac and how many are damaged -- this is something
I have not been able to find out on the net.
I think that it might be telling if the great
majority of Prozac takers do not suffer these
horrible effects - though that would not be legally
significant.Squiggles
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