New Publication 2009
"Drug-Induced
Dementia: a Perfect Crime" Grace Jackson MD
paperback,
publication date May 2009
http://www.authorhouse.co.uk/Bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=61466
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 four-fold within the next
forty
years. Within the United States alone, the number of affected
individuals over the age of 65 is expected to rise exponentially from 8
million
cases (2% of the entire population in the year 2000), to 18 million
retirees
(roughly 4.5% of the national census in the year 2040). Although they
are striking, these statistics quite likely underestimate the scope of
the
coming epidemic, as they fail to consider the impact of
under-diagnosis,
early-onset disease, and the potential for a changing incidence of
illness in
the context of increasingly toxic environments.
In the face of this imminent crisis, concerned
observers have called
for
policies and practices which aim to prevent, limit, or reverse
dementia.
Drug-Induced Dementia: A Perfect Crime is a timely resource which
reveals why and how medical treatments themselves – specifically,
psychopharmaceuticals – are a substantial cause of brain degeneration
and premature
death.
A first-of-its-kind resource for patients and clinicians, the book
integrates
research findings from epidemiology (observational studies of patients
in the
“real world”), basic biology (animal experiments), and clinical science
(neuroimaging and autopsy studies) in order to demonstrate the
dementing and
deadly effects of psychiatric drugs.
Highlighted by more than 100 neuroimages, slides of tissue specimens,
and
illustrations, the book uniquely describes:
* the societal roots of the problem (target organ toxicity,
regulatory incompetence, and performativity)
* the subtypes and essential causes of dementia
* the patterns, prevalence, and causes of dementia
associated with antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, mood
stabilizers,
and stimulants
and
* the actions and reforms which patients, providers, and
policy makers might immediately pursue, in an effort to mitigate the
causes and
consequences of this iatrogenic tragedy.
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