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ADHD Is Over: Obedience Pills

OBEDIENCE PILLS is an intriguing interview with Dr. Patrick D. Hahn, a freelance writer and independent scholar with a long-standing interest in iatrogenic harm and the medicalization of everyday life. Dr. Hahn is an Affiliate professor of Biology at Loyola University in Maryland and he’s the author of three books: “Madness and Genetic Determinism: Is Mental Illness in Our Genes?”; “Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide, and Violence”; and as of recent…”Obedience Pills: ADHD and the Medicalization of Childhood.”

Critiquing the Psychiatric Model: Prescription for Sorrow

Critiquing the Psychiatric Model is the first Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series. Edited by Eric Maisel and Chuck Ruby. The book features a chapter on antidepressants and rampage killings by author Patrick D. Hahn from his book, Prescription for Sorrow. Understanding the current systems of psychology and psychiatry is […]

Radically Genuine: Obedience Pills

Dr. Roger McFillin interviews Patrick Hahn:

The kids are not alright. Millions of children continue to be dangerously drugged under the label “ADHD.” And the numbers continue to rise. How did we get here? n his latest book, Patrick D Hahn has documented the history and evolution of this diagnosis and the lack of evidence for any long-term benefits.

Drugs Given to Suppress the Childish Behavior of Children

I just finished Obedience Pills by Patrick Hahn.  It is a very comprehensive, very readable account of the invention of ADHD and the total lack of any scientific support for the drugs given to suppress childish behavior by children. And how the diagnosis and drugs absolve parents and the other adults in their children’s lives from responsibility for raising them, as well as teaching the diagnosed they are not responsible for their behavior.  There is much more, and Obedience Pills has a lot of commonsense as well as being meticulously supported.

Medicating Normal: A Conversation with Patrick Hahn

Medicating Normal Guest bio: Patrick D. Hahn is a freelance writer and independent scholar with a long-standing interest in iatrogenic harm and the medicalization of everyday life. His first book, Madness and Genetic Determinism: Is Mental Illness in Our Genes?, explores how genetic determinist views of so-called “mental illness” have obscured the well-established role of […]

Shocking… A Must-Read for Anyone with ADHD

“Obedience Pills recounts the shocking story of psychiatry’s abandonment of scientific evidence in favor of professional power and profit. As expertly discussed here by Patrick Hahn, the bizarre transition from some musings on youth morality in the nineteenth century to the current drugging of millions of kids with highly dangerous substances for a non-existent condition would be almost laughable if it wasn’t so utterly tragic and devastating for so many young people and their families. A must-read for anyone currently living with or considering a diagnosis of ‘ADHD’.”

Bruce Cohen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland and author of Psychiatric Hegemony

Hardcover Edition of The Zyprexa Papers

By Jim Gottstein, author of The Zyprexa Papers In this video author, Jim Gottsteinm talks about the hardcover edition of The Zyprexa Papers. In an earlier 8.5 minute video, Jim talked about the book itself. https://youtu.be/MC7j29dkRyw. More information, including reviews and interviews, can be found at https://thezyprexapapers.com/ Jim Gottstein  The Zyprexa Papers, Hardcover edition Publish […]

It was just a normal day…

Writer’s Digest called “It was a dark and stormy night” “the literary posterchild for bad story starters.” Wikipedia says, “It was a dark and stormy night” is an often-mocked and parodied phrase considered to represent “the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing.”

Gottstein Speaks: The Zyprexa Papers

Author Jim Gottstein talks about and reads portions of his book, The Zyprexa Papers.   It was just a normal day before Dr. David Egilman called me out of the blue on November 28, 2006. The days are short that time of year in Anchorage, Alaska, and it was getting dark by mid-afternoon. Dr. Egilman […]

Breaking Medicine’s Code of Silence – The Zyprexa Papers

Unfortunately, the goal of global immunity has imposed an unhealthy code of silence. Questions about the ethics of mandatory medical treatment and the validity of clinical research are spinning around the edge of the covid pandemic. Unfortunately, the goal of global immunity has imposed an unhealthy code of silence. We think it’s time for the […]

The Zyprexa Papers: drugging involuntary psychiatric patients

 Coercive, medical model psychiatry can be dangerous to your health. The Zyprexa Papers by Jin Gottstein Book Review By Tom Sandborn The Zyprexa Papers, by James Gottstein, Anchorage Alaska, 232 pp., $17.50 (paperback), ISBN-10: 0578627264 Imagine this. Someone in your life finds you inordinately eccentric,  annoying or alarming, and decides you have a “mental illness,” whatever […]