{"id":474,"date":"2011-07-23T16:56:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T22:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=474"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:42:28","slug":"how-big-pharma-got-americans-hooked-on-anti-psychotic-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/23\/how-big-pharma-got-americans-hooked-on-anti-psychotic-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/indepth\/opinion\/2011\/07\/20117313948379987.html\">How  Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recent opinion article in\u00c2\u00a0Al Jazeera\u00c2\u00a0English is an interesting read (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/indepth\/opinion\/2011\/07\/20117313948379987.html\">Mass  psychosis in the US<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"mailto:jridgew@yahoo.com\">James Ridgeway<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0a senior Washington  correspondent with Mother Jones Magazine.)<\/p>\n<p>The article starts with, &#8220;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,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>and ends with &#8220;Stop Big Pharma and the parasitic shrink community from  wantonly pushing these pills across the population.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This reminds us about one of the truly abhorrent uses of psychotropic  drugs, and\u00c2\u00a0the role of psychiatry in international terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Suicide bombers are not rational\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthey 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\u00e2\u20ac\u201caltering psychiatric drugs.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/terrorism.shtml\">http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/terrorism.shtml<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs A recent opinion article in\u00c2\u00a0Al Jazeera\u00c2\u00a0English is an interesting read (&#8220;Mass psychosis in the US&#8221; by James Ridgeway,\u00c2\u00a0a senior Washington correspondent with Mother Jones Magazine.) The article starts with, &#8220;Has America &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/23\/how-big-pharma-got-americans-hooked-on-anti-psychotic-drugs\/\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","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-7E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}