Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Marcia Angell

The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?

The Illusions of Psychiatry

A serious conversation is under way in the United States on the subject of psychiatric drugs. The debate consists of three fundamental issues: first, whether antidepressants actually treat depression; second, the vast, growing body of evidence that psychotropic medications alter the brain permanently; and third, the pharmaceutical industry’s continuing, decades-old corruption of American psychiatrists, many of whom have been made by drug companies’ shenanigans into little more than handsomely paid industry shills.

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I read both parts to this article and I was shaken to my foundation. Please take the time to read both and you will be also.

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