Author Robert Whitaker questions the benefits of antipsychotic medications
Journalist and author Robert Whitaker used to think it was unethical for doctors to take schizophrenia patients off their medication. Having cofounded a publishing company in the 1990s that reported on clinical trials, he likened the removal of antipsychotic drugs to taking a diabetic off insulin. And that’s how he covered this issue in a Pulitzer Prize–nominated series of freelance articles for the Boston Globe in 1998.
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