Friday, March 30, 2007

Adventures in PsychoPharmacology

A bipolar student's long journey with wrong medications. Gogo Lidz was prescribed more than 15 different drugs in 5 years after being disagnosed with bipolar disorder. She was 16 when prescribed her first mood-altering drug. One patient's strong case for getting a second opinion. Do drugs like Adderall and Zyprexa do more harm than good?

Do you think you've been misdiagnosed or misprescribed? Are doctors too quick to prescribe meds to treat patients? Albow says, "Too many people blindly trust their psychiatrists. If you are not doing well, you need to move on."

Here is the Story on FOX

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