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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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But now they often say Since they have bipolar disorder, theyll never be able to manage their emotions or achieve any stability. Whitaker, R Anatomy of an Industry: Commerce, Payments to Psychiatrists and Betrayal of the Public Good Madinamerica.com, Sep 18, 2021. Silverman, E What money? 2008 Sep 25;2;26.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

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As Whitaker noted, the research literature shows that psychosis pills and depression pills increase the chronicity of the disorders, and the same is true for stimulants, benzodiazepines, and drugs used for bipolar disorder. 650 None of this history is found in Insel’s book or on NIMH’s website. They used the UFO trick.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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In 2021, New York Times reporter Benedict Carey, after covering psychiatry for twenty years, concluded that psychiatry had done “little to improve the lives of the millions of people living with persistent mental distress. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex.