An unprecedented 1 in 66 Americans is a diagnosed psychotic

Source: Business Insider Via Raw Story
By Robert Johnson

Outselling even common drugs to treat high blood pressure and acid reflux, antipsychotic medications are the single top-selling prescription drug in the United States.

Once reserved for hard-core, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest type of mental illnesses to treat hallucinations, delusions or major thought disorders; today, the drugs are handed out to unruly kids and absent minded elderly.

A recent story in Al Jazeera by James Ridgeway of Mother Jones illuminates the efforts by major pharmaceutical companies to get doctors prescribing medicines like Zyprexa, Seroquel, and Abilify to patients for whom the drugs were never intended.

Focusing on psychiatrists because they rely on subjective diagnoses, the drug reps have been so successful that they've changed the criteria for mental illness and disability payments. Ridgeway quotes

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/20/an-unprecedented-1-in-66-americans-is-a-diagnosed-psychotic/

One could argue that they've all lost contact with reality, but not to the extent of a true psychotic. Sociopaths, on the other hand, congress is loaded with them. It almost seems like a prerequisite for the job.

Pharma says so.

Who would be crazy enough to pay out of pocket to learn that they are crazy?

I don't know if they help or not. But I would guess that most are taking these drugs due to depression rather than true psychotic episodes.

Wow, It's an epidemic

But he must have been unable to afford meds

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come onnnnnn.... not all people need to be taking drugs. just an overwhelming amount of people on drugs.

why this girl?

because, she is snappy.... might have something to do with for whatever reason she is far from the favorite of the other kids and some relatives outright hostile. fuck