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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | AuthorHouse | | Page Count: | 464 Pages | | Publication Date: | May 31, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 370,403th |
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Under the influence of declining birth rates, expanding longevity, and changing population structures around the world, the global prevalence of senile dementia is expected to increase more than four-fold within the next forty years. Within the United States alone, the number of affected individuals over the age of 65 is expected to rise exponentially from 8 million cases (2% of the entire population in the year 2000), to 18 million retirees (roughly 4.5% of the national census in the year 2040). Although they are striking, these statistics quite likely underestimate the scope of the coming epidemic, as they fail to consider the impact of under-diagnosis, early-onset disease, and the potential for a changing incidence of illness in the context of increasingly toxic environments. In the face of this imminent crisis, concerned observers have called for policies and practices which aim to prevent, limit, or reverse dementia. Drug-Induced Dementia: A Perfect Crime is a timely resource which reveals why and how medical treatments themselves - specifically, psychopharmaceuticals - are a substantial cause of brain degeneration and premature death. A first-of-its-kind resource for patients and clinicians, the book integrates research findings from epidemiology (observational studies of patients in the "real world"), basic biology (animal experiments), and clinical science (neuroimaging and autopsy studies) in order to demonstrate the dementing and deadly effects of psychiatric drugs. Highlighted by more than 100 neuroimages, slides of tissue specimens, and illustrations, the book uniquely describes: Ø the societal roots of the problem(target organ toxicity, regulatory incompetence, and performativity) Ø the subtypes and essential causes of dementia Ø the patterns, prevalence, and causes of dementia associated with antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, mood stabilizers, and stimulants and Ø the actions and reforms which patients, providers, and policy |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)
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This book is TRUE! by Karl E. Humiston (San Diego, CA, USA)  5 Stars
October 26, 2009
Grace Jackson is a no-nonsense redhead who won't give up. She walked out of a good career as a Navy medical officer (psychiatrist) so she could speak freely about the obvious harm being done by psychiatric medication. A recovering psychiatrist myself, I know her from meetings we have attended. If you think this book is too heavy with technical details, I say that she knows that this is what makes her argument unassailable in its truth, so we readers must put up with it. What she says is true -- all of it. She is a beautiful person.
Mental health and happiness depends on a healthy brain, which depends on a complex of subtle ecological factors, just like a healthy garden or any other living thing. Psychiatric drugs "solve" problems crudely, like bullets from guns, always by damaging something in the brain. But psychiatrists who don't prescribe the drugs find themselves outside the box and in trouble. Who can blame them? Who is to blame for this destruction? With exceptional insight, the author has done a fine piece of detective work on the enormous crime of today's psychiatric medication prescribing.
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A LIFE-SAVING OPPORTUNITY by carolyn moody 5 Stars
June 16, 2009
Drug-Induced Dementia - a perfect crime is an important book that is brimming with insights and groundbreaking revelations.
Written by a former Navy physician who has worked with patients in prison settings, in private practice, and in the VA, the author (Grace E. Jackson, MD) appears to be the first American psychiatrist to clearly state and publish:
1) the causal connection between antipsychotic drugs and Alzheimer's disease
2) the evidentiary link between stimulants (ADHD drugs) and shrinkage of the brain
3) the limitations of the neurogenesis theory of antidepressant action (in fact, Dr. Jackson discusses the research evidence which shows that antidepressants damage the hippocampus - the learning and memory center of the brain)
4) the evidence for mood stabilizers as neurodegenerative, rather than neuroprotective agents
5) the reasons why existing drug treatments are particularly hazardous for survivors of traumatic brain injury (i.e., soldiers with head injuries)
Although any one of these revelations should be reason enough to read the book and recommend it to others, there are additional insights which should make this a mandatory text for all healthcare professionals, policy makers, legislators, and consumers.
In three separate appendices, Dr. Jackson explores potential solutions for governmental regulators; for individual patients (consumers of health care); and for society as a whole.
In Appendix A, Dr. Jackson specifically reviews the nine essential variables which are used by the Food and Drug Administration (and by the courts) in confirming or denying a CAUSAL LINK between drug treatments and adverse effects. (These are called the Hill criteria.)
Appendix B is the first-of-its-kind analysis of four KEY STEPS which should guide the use of any and all psychiatric drugs.
Appendix C is the first-of-its-kind analysis of ten possible societal and systemic reforms.
Dementia is no longer a disease which is limited to old people. Dementia affects all age groups. Psychiatric medications increase the risks of dementia by 2- to 14-fold. However, as Dr. Jackson points out, there is a real chance of preventing and/or limiting this expanding scourge.
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