How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs
A recent opinion article in Al Jazeera English is an interesting read (“Mass psychosis in the US” by James Ridgeway, a senior Washington correspondent with Mother Jones Magazine.)
The article starts with, “Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux,”
and ends with “Stop Big Pharma and the parasitic shrink community from wantonly pushing these pills across the population.”
This reminds us about one of the truly abhorrent uses of psychotropic drugs, and the role of psychiatry in international terrorism.
Terrorism is created; it is not human nature. Suicide bombers are made, not born. Ultimately, terrorism is the result of madmen bent on destruction, and these madmen are typically the result of psychiatric or psychological techniques aimed at mind and behavioral control.
Suicide bombers are not rational—they are weak and pliant individuals psychologically indoctrinated to murder innocent people without compassion, with no concern for the value of their own lives. They are manufactured assassins. Part of that process involves the use of mind–altering psychiatric drugs.
For more information, go to http://www.cchrstl.org/terrorism.shtml.