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Mass Psychosis In the USA?
Hugh Pickens writes "James Ridgeway writes in Al Jazeera that with over $14 billion in sales in 2008, antipsychotics have become the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the U.S., surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux. While once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses, today it seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics. 'Parents are told that their unruly kids are in fact bipolar, and in need of anti-psychotics, while old people with dementia are dosed, in large numbers, with drugs once reserved largely for schizophrenics,' writes Ridgeway. 'Americans with symptoms ranging from chronic depression to anxiety to insomnia are now being prescribed anti-psychotics at rates that seem to indicate a national mass psychosis.' By now, just about everyone knows how the drug industry works to influence the minds of American doctors, plying them with gifts, junkets, ego-tripping awards, and research funding in exchange for endorsing or prescribing the latest and most lucrative drugs. According to Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, under the tutelage of Big Pharma, we are 'simply expanding the criteria for mental illness so that nearly everyone has one.'"
We should be giving it to all those delusional theists, especially muslims whose religion teaches it is OK to lie, cheat, and steal from non-muslims; teaches that it is OK to murder in the name of their god; teaches forced conversions; whose adherents simultaneously decry terrorism and celebrate successful terrorist attacks. But, as so many Americans are feeling helpless and threatened by muslims and hated by most of the world, it is no wonder many Americans are taking psychiatric drugs.
And, before dumbasses pipe up with "Islam doesn't teach that!!", Mohamed stated that if the new word contradicts the old word, the new word takes precedence. All the "peace and love" crap in the koran is in the older sections and all the "kill the infidels if they do not convert!!!" is in the newest books. Don't forget that, because I won't.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
can we block socialist passive aggressive sharia loving faggot ewropeons too?
ever read what goes into Coke or Pepsi diet drinks?
Phenylalanine
"ADD/ADHD, emotional and behavioral disorders can all be triggered by too much Phenylalanine in the daily diet"
The majority of Americans believe in a magic sky daddy who created each and every one of them, gets mad if they masturbate, listens to their thoughts and grants wishes.
Yeah, no surprise at all.
Don't even have to mention how so many of the underclass STILL vote Republican.
Shit like this gets modded insightful? Fuck yourself mods