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Join Us for the 2013 Empathic Therapy Conference April 26-28, 2013, Syracuse

Sign up now to attend our upcoming Empathic Therapy Conference April 26-28, 2013, Syracuse, New York!  Join Peter Breggin, MD, Dr. Bert Karon,  Lisbeth Riis Cooper, and many more. Empathic Therapy, Toxic Psychiatry, Elderly, Children, Dementia, Recovery, Well-Being,  Addiction, SSRI Violence, Tardive Dyskinesia ~ Over 20 hours of CEUs

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ToxicPsychiatry.org is an online library and newspaper project of the 501c3 nonprofit Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education & Living, founded by Peter R. Breggin, MD and Ginger Breggin, working toward replacing the biological theories, diagnoses and treatments of "modern" psychiatry with better therapeutic and educational approaches

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Psychiatric Drugs and Cancers

Sleeping Pills Increase Cancer Risk

"Those who had taken the most [sleeping] pills were also 35% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer – although they had not been at greater risk of cancer than the control group before the study began. The risk was greatest for temazepam, one of the benzodiazepines. A link between sleeping pill use and cancer has also been found in previous studies."

 

Pharmacology and therapeutics
Hypnotics' association with mortality or cancer: a matched cohort study
BMJ OPEN ACCESS Daniel F Kripke et al Feb 27, 2012

 

 Studies on questions relating to psychiatric drugs and cancer 

Prolactin is affected by some psychiatric drugs and "may be a factor in tumour growth"