Pillaged : psychiatric medications and suicide risk /
Psychiatric medications and suicide risk
Ronald William Maris ; foreword by David Healy.
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
The suicide risks of psychiatric medications -- Resolving suicidogenic claims -- Antidepressants -- Mood stabilizers and antiepileptics -- Anxiolytics -- Antipsychotics -- Residual suicidogenic drugs -- Conclusions, resolutions, and alternatives.
It is estimated that 45 to 50 percent of all Americans will suffer a mental disorder at some time during their lives. Increasingly, the treatment for these disorders is management with one or more psychiatric drugs, often prescribed by general practitioners. In Pillaged, Ronald William Maris evaluates the psychiatric medications commonly used to treat several major types of psychiatric disorders --