Jeff Lieberman > Quotes

“Others, however, were incapable of adhering to their medications on their own or of living independently; thus, a drug that was so helpful to so many ironically played a significant role in the disaster that was deinstitutionalization.”
― Jeff Lieberman, Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention

“Generally, the best way to determine the relative benefit of drugs is through comparative effectiveness studies, in which all drugs, or a representative selection, are compared. In the United States, the nonprofit Consumer Reports is dedicated to such unbiased testing of consumer products, but no equivalent exists for medicines. After a drug is approved by the FDA, there is no process for tracking how it stacks up against other medications currently in use." ― Jeff Lieberman, Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention”
― Jeff Lieberman, Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention

“are we more caring of vulnerable older adults than we are of the young? What would we think of ourselves as a society if our streets and prisons were filled with old people suffering the terrors and indignities of untreated dementia? It may be that we see it as a question of effective treatments, which is ironic, as there are no truly effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, but there are for schizophrenia.”
― Jeff Lieberman, Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention

“The increased risk for frequent users who begin using cannabis in early adolescence may be due to the fact that when the brain is still developing, it is most vulnerable to the harmful effects of cannabis.”
― Jeff Lieberman, Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention

“The catastrophic outcome of deinstitutionalization, which displaced hundreds of thousands of mentally ill and disabled patients from state hospitals to the streets, nursing homes, and prisons (largely for petty, nonviolent crimes), had provoked stinging critiques of the government agencies responsible—particularly the Alcohol Drug Abuse Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA), the NIMH, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)—for failing to provide the community mental health care services needed to support the deinstitutionalized patients.”
― Jeff Lieberman, Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention