Dr Peter Breggin is an American psychiatrist and author. He was instrumental in stopping lobotomies being carried out in the USA and has, on multiple occasions, represented plaintiffs in legal cases against drug companies. Throughout his sixty plus years working in the mental health field, he has been a leading advocate of drug-free approaches and believes that psychiatric drugs fail to deal with the underlying causes of patients’ conditions and, if anything, only make matters worse. In this interview, Dr Breggin talks about how psychiatric drugs are incredibly destructive and neurotoxic. They poison brain, liver and thyroid cells and patients experience apathy, indifference and sometimes bouts of euphoria with an overall feeling that nothing quite matters anymore. He describes what he calls medication spellbinding, where a patient cannot comprehend the effect that the drugs are having on them. They are confused and can have a tendency to walk around like zombies, while their close relatives see a completely different picture. Dr Breggin also reveals for the first time how, when he opposed certain companies and individuals, they tried to destroy him through intimidation and covertly attacked him and his family, when all of them suddenly became ill for no apparent reason. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfThKVNl0Oc

Kim Witczak at the Symposium about Scientific Freedom, Copenhagen, 9 March 2019. Lecture: "Scientific Freedom and Why It Matters - What I wish I knew then ..., Woody's perspective." Kim Witczak is a leading national drug safety advocate In the US and speaker with over 25 years professional experience in advertising and marketing communications. She became involved in pharmaceutical drug safety issues after the sudden death of her husband due to undisclosed drug side effect of an antidepressant. Kim co-founded Woodymatters, a non-profit dedicated to advocating for a stronger FDA and drug safety system. She co-created and organized the international, multi-disciplinary conference Selling Sickness: People Before Profits conference in Washington, D.C. In 2016, she was appointed Consumer Representative on the FDA Psychopharmacologic Drug Advisory Committee and is on the Board of Directors of National Physicians Alliance and MISSD (Medication Induced Suicide Prevention in Memory of Stewart Dolin.) She is an active member of the DC-based Patient, Consumer, and Public Health Coalition making sure the voice of non-conflicted patients and consumers is represented in healthcare/FDA related legislative issues. This lecture is part of the Symposium about Scientific Freedom and the inauguration of the Institute for Scientific Freedom, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 March 2019. World renowned Danish scientist Peter C Gøtzsche is the founder of the institute. The Institute’s primary area of focus is healthcare and the institute has three main visions: - All science should strive to be free from financial conflicts of interest. - All science should be published as soon as possible, and made freely accessible. - All scientific data, including study protocols, should be freely accessible, allowing others to do their own analyses. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSdRqvDQ8U4