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Ed:  Although aimed at promoting natural products, the story and graph illustrate the dangers of psychotropics and all drugs when prescribed by physicians who are trained in the symptom supression model, promoted by the pharmaceutical industry.

The UK-based, international campaign group, the Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl) recently revealed data showing that compared to supplements, an individual is:
·    Around 900 times more likely to die from food poisoning
·    Nearly 300,000 times more likely to die from a preventable ...

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International has a great psychotropic drug information site.  “CCHR functions solely as a mental health watchdog, working alongside many medical professionals including doctors, scientists, nurses and those few psychiatrists who have taken a stance against the biological/drug model of “disease” that is continually promoted by the psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry as a way to sell drugs. It is a non political, non-religious, non-profit organization dedicated solely to eradicating mental health abuse and enacting patient and consumer ...

Amongst all prescribers of medications, the greatest danger to patients may be a  function of the prescriber and the content and quality of training one gets learning how to prescribe. Although one can make the case that prescribing errors are normally distributed across all prescribers, the data do no support this assertion. According to the Institute of Medicine, physicians make the most errors when prescribing medications.
Depending upon the study, it is estimated that about 100,000 people die as a ...