A "Must Read" if you want to know how big pharma and the "mental health" industry have joined forces

 

 

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‘Mental health’ is defined and controlled by profit-driven commercial interests

The real story of psychiatry

Mental illness is ‘big business’ for psychiatry and pharma

For decades, psychiatry in collusion with pharmaceutical companies and to a lesser degree device manufacturers, has turned the subject of mental health into a for-profit free-for-all where patients have become repeat customers.

This influence extends right across the activity including determining trends of research, and research results, defining mental illness to academia and the public, training psychiatrists, influencing drug prescriptions through clinical guidelines, etc, etc.

‘Mental health’ is only what psychiatry and pharma marketing campaigns want to say it is, ignoring inconvenient facts such as the cause of mental illnesses are never found and no one is ever actually cured.

“This is not a group for me. At this point in history, in my view, psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug companies…”

Loren Mosher, former chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia at the National Institute of Mental Health, USA

In 1998 Loren Mosher, the former chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia at the National Institute of Mental Health USA resigned from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in frustration: “This is not a group for me. At this point in history, in my view, psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the drug companies. The APA could not continue without the pharmaceutical company support of meetings, symposia, workshops, journal advertising, grand rounds luncheons, unrestricted educational grants etc. etc. Psychiatrists have become the minions of drug company promotions…No longer do we seek to understand whole persons in their social contexts rather we are there to realign our patients’ neurotransmitters.” ¹

Never finding cures mean billions in drug profits

A world of mass-produced pharmaceuticals

In 1897, the German chemical giant Bayer found a new way to produce what would become Aspirin and by 1899 were selling the drug globally under a trademarked name – the world had entered the age of mass-produced pharmaceuticals. Soon there was a realization of the enormous profits such drugs could provide to their manufacturers.

Although it took 50 years of serendipity for psychotropic drugs to be ‘discovered’, these drugs have become some of the most profitable of all time.......