There was an ad for it on television tonight. It was approved by the FDA last year.
"There's nothing wrong with what's happening to you; if you're sad and angry about it, that's because you're sick." That's not a quote, but it's what they mean, and the worse your situation is, the sicker they'll say that you are and the less help you'll get.
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That's the address of an article from 2012, at the website of the American Psychological Association.
These are quotes from that article:
"In the United States, almost four out of five prescriptions for psychotropic drugs are written by physicians who aren't psychiatrists."
"The study examined 74 FDA-registered studies for a dozen antidepressants and found that most studies with negative results were not published in scientific literature or were published in a way that conveyed a positive outcome."
"The pharmaceutical industry has been very successful in marketing psychotropic drugs to physicians and the public. From 1996 to 2005, the drug industry tripled its spending on marketing, including a fivefold increase in direct-to-consumer advertising."
"Of particular concern is the prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to vulnerable populations, including foster care children and elderly nursing home residents. Foster children are up to four-and-a-half times more likely to receive psychotropic drugs than other children covered by Medicaid, according to a Government Accountability Office report last year. The investigation of foster care programs in five states found that hundreds of children were prescribed multiple psychotropic drugs, including antipsychotic drugs at excessive dosages. Infants also were prescribed psychotropic drugs despite no scientific evidence supporting that use."
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I agree with a lot of what the rest of the article says, although I think it supports medicating people too much, despite the quotes from the article that I have added to this page.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 5, 2016 @ 6:03 p.m.
