{"id":231,"date":"2009-11-17T18:05:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/17\/the-marketing-of-madness-are-we-all-insane\/"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:11","slug":"the-marketing-of-madness-are-we-all-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/17\/the-marketing-of-madness-are-we-all-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marketing of Madness &#8211; Are We All Insane?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"marketingofmadness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cchr.org\/#\/videos\/marketing-of-madness-introduction\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/images\/marketingofmadness350.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Marketing of Madness&#8211;Are We All Insane?<br \/>\nThere is no money in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153normal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the story of the high-income partnership between psychiatry and drug companies that has created an $80 billion psychotropic drug profit center.<\/p>\n<p>But appearances are deceiving.<\/p>\n<p>How valid are psychiatrists&#8217; diagnoses&#8211;and how safe are their drugs?<\/p>\n<p>Psychiatrists tell us that the way to fix unwanted behavior is by<br \/>\naltering brain chemistry with a pill.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike a mainstream medical drug like insulin, psychotropic<br \/>\nmedications have no measurable target illness to correct, and can upset the very delicate balance of chemical processes the body needs to run smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, psychiatrists and drug companies have used these drugs to create a huge and lucrative market niche.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;ve done this by naming more and more unwanted behaviors as &#8220;medical disorders&#8221; requiring psychiatric medication.<\/p>\n<p>But should these really be called diseases?<\/p>\n<p>So the question is:<\/p>\n<p>How did psychotropic drugs, with no target illness, no known curative<br \/>\npowers and a long and extensive list of side effects, become the go-to<br \/>\ntreatment for every kind of psychological distress?<\/p>\n<p>And how did the psychiatrists espousing these drugs come to dominate the field of mental treatment?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchr.org\/#\/videos\/marketing-of-madness-introduction\">Click here to preview this new documentary video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New documentary DVD: The Marketing of Madness-Are We All Insane? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/17\/the-marketing-of-madness-are-we-all-insane\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-3J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}