Please, mum, no more pills

Benjamin starts to take Ritalin to treat ADHD symptoms at age four. We follow Benjamin for 15 years, as he experiences worsening of symptoms, psychoses, more medication to get better, forced treatment, until he finally meets a psychiatrist, that is able to help him withdraw from psychiatric drugs.

The book was written in the hope of creating debate about the way we use psychiatric drugs. Do we consider potential harms thoroughly enough? What happens during polypharmacy? Is it even ethically sound to do forced treatment?

Pia Brandt Danborg is a biologist by education and has since 2015 worked on her PhD project at the Nordic Cochrane Centre, Denmark. The project is about investigating harms from use of psychiatric drugs, even after stopping the drug treatment. Pia was born in 1976, she is married and has two children.