GOLD MINES

“There is no evidence that any mental disorder is caused by chemical imbalance,” a Surgeon General’s report states. But that truth is not slowing the sharp increase in the prescriptions written for psychiatric drugs.

In 2007 the five leading psychiatric drugs grossed more money than the gross national product of half the countries in the world.

The pharmaceutical industry has discovered two gold mines that could potentially keep billions of U.S. tax dollars flowing into their coffers every year. One gold mine is their ability to influence government legislation requiring mandatory mental health testing. The legislation has the potential of leading to millions of prescriptions annually. The other gold mine is the industry’s influence over the creation of drug guidelines, also called algorithms, defining what psychiatric drugs will be used in large public systems like state mental hospitals, prisons, and clinics funded by state and federal governments.

Many psychiatrists are alarmed by the influence the drug companies have on the mental health field. “There is not one shred of credible evidence that any respectable scientist would consider valid demonstrating that anything that psychiatrists call mental illness are brain diseases or biochemical imbalances. It’s all fraud,” states Dr. Ron Leifer a psychiatrist.

Every mental disorder in the U.S. is created BY VOTE by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).