America conned[Psycho pharma drug pushing empire under fire]

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http://hken.ibtimes.com/articles/187...under-fire.htm

(NaturalNews) Is America truly stricken with widespread mental illness? Do tens of millions need mind-altering drugs? A recent flurry of media articles lead readers to a realization that Big Pharma and the "mental health" industry have deceived Americans on a grand scale.

The "New York Review of Books" two-part article by Dr. Marcia Angell, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School and former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, summarizes it extremely well. She analyzes three books by authors Irving Kirsch, Robert Whitaker, and Daniel Carlat. Each deconstructs the apparent mental illness epidemic and theory that mental disorders stem from brain chemical imbalances which can be corrected by drugs.

Dr. Angell's review has sparked a host of other journalists to applaud her and fuel the fire. An article in Forbes even concludes, "psychopharma is looking like an idea whose time has passed."

As an overview:

Ten percent of Americans over age six take antidepressants. Antipsychotic drugs, once reserved for schizophrenics, have become the top-selling class of drugs in the US, with over $14 billion in sales in 2009. ADHD, bipolar and autism diagnoses have exploded in the past two decades with at least 5 million US kids now on psychiatric drugs. Ten percent of boys take drugs for ADHD. Half a million kids take antipsychotics, including preschoolers.

The chemical imbalance theory rose to fame when Prozac hit the market in 1987, accompanied by massive hype that it corrected a chemical deficiency in the brain. In the years that followed, the number of people prescribed drugs for mental illness skyrocketed. Today, "treatment" for mental disorders is synonymous with psychoactive (mind-altering) drugs.

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[The Pat-Man]

Everyone here knows most of those "illnesses" are just excuses for La Pharma Gigante to make money of worried housewives.

[Trix Are For Kids]

Solution: Smoke weed everyday.

[themessenger]

Parts of the article mention that the drugs shrink your brain, and that people not medicated recover faster and with less chance of a relapse.

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Originally Posted by Trix Are For Kids

Solution: Smoke weed everyday.

Haha, this. I used to be one of those antisocial fuckers, my grade school counselor told my parents multiple times that I was the next 'columbine' (How does that phrasing even make sense?).

All I did was draw detailed diagrams of weapons all day and ideas for video game mods (Command and Conquer). I got in trouble in 6th grade because a story I had to write included a "repair gun"

Anyhow, I smoked weed, became social, have friends. Didn't loose any of my technical interests either (Was on FIRST robotics team for 2 years, took metal fabricating classes, only person in school who could operate the computer controlled plasmacutter, etc.).

Prescription drugs like that are usually completely fucking useless, and wayyy over prescribed.

[The Pat-Man]

Yea bro let's smoke weed erryday and listen to shitty music and have friends whose only interest we have in common is a mildly stimulating drug

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Originally Posted by The Pat-Man

Yea bro let's smoke weed erryday and listen to shitty music and have friends whose only interest we have in common is a mildly stimulating drug

Sounds pretty fucking boring, glad I don't do that