Drug-Induced Dementia: a perfect crime

By Grace E. Jackson

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438972318
• ISBN13: 9781438972312
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent and Disturbing

This book should be required reading for laypersons and healthcare personnel...deliberate drug-induced dementia, and other "labels"(courtesy DSM-II,III,etc)in effect, rake in huge drug,physician,nurse and hospital profits and advancement, at the expense of the senior population, which is exploding.One could be looking at the tip of the iceberg re:continuous, CRIMINAL labeling, then drug-induced death. It is a well-known fact that nursing homes,assisted living homes, et al routinely report "heart attack,etc" when the person actually died of too many drugs in the system.Just take a look at those huge nursing carts-filled to the brim with drugs!..Disgusting,immoral,criminal, and the sign of a society taking a downward spiral. Watch "Soylent Green" with Edward G. Robinson and Charleton Heston, made decades ago, on DVD to get a scary overview of what could happen in the USA and other countries that push drug profits before honor, morals,and character.[...] This is a courageous book by Dr. Jackson

This book is TRUE!

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.

A LIFE-SAVING OPPORTUNITY

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.