Anti-psychotic medications--ploy by big pharma?

[thundley4]

hyphenate   (1000+ posts)             Sat Jul-16-11 02:06 AM
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Anti-psychotic medications--ploy by big pharma?   
   
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/20...

Despite the article's origin, this sounds plausible, as someone who has to take many meds every day.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1501412

azul   (1000+ posts)             Sat Jul-16-11 02:12 AM
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1. Who... are the brain police?
   
The cost of the atypical anti-psychotics is busting the state and county mental health programs too.

Moochers!!

GReedDiamond   (1000+ posts)           Sat Jul-16-11 02:36 AM
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3. "A nation of psychotics"...
   
...one might come to that conclusion, judging by the Professional Liars & Thieves & Worse, elected into Positions of Power here in the USA over the last thirty years.

The Transnational Corporate Pharmaceutical Drug Pushers are outta control and on a roll.

Good Luck to those of Us not strung out on their mind-altering substances, living amongst those who are, unbeknownst to us, drug-crazed legal addicts/zombies, on the verge of full-blown individual and/or collective Freakout: "prescriptions written for the top three atypical antipsychotics totaled more than 20 million."

That's 20 million out of approx 300 million...that's a lot of Dope in the People...and a fair amount of Dopey People (i.e., "Teabaggers") impacting on the "Political Debate" - coincidence? Maybe..?

I sincerely doubt that 20 million USA residents legitimately need anti-psychotic medications in the good ole USofA...they've been sold a bill of (bad) goods by the legal transnational drug pusher industry, who are cashing in on their patients' insecurities about themselves, the economy, "terrorism," radiation, pollution, etc etc.

This is also why Cannabis is Verboten.

Right! Doped up TEA Party members?  Look in the mirror DU.

GReedDiamond   (1000+ posts)           Sat Jul-16-11 02:55 AM
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5. Yes, many people may currently be "depressed,"...
   
...because, for example, I am too, given the state of current affairs.

However, anti-psychotic medications for the vast general types of peoples' "depression" is overkill.

Cannabis is much more soothing, natural, and organic!

(But only if Legally available in your Local Jurisdiction, nudge nudge, know what I mean.)

Mimosa   (1000+ posts)           Sat Jul-16-11 09:10 PM
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23. ^ Teabaggers taking Rxs impacting the "Political Debate"? ^
   
A possible Eureka discovery.

Many of them seem psychotic. Look at the comments at Lucianne.com or Breitbart's Big Government. These are people with serious anger issues.

More DUmmies fit the pycho profile than do conservatives. 

K8-EEE   (1000+ posts)             Sat Jul-16-11 03:01 AM
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6. My autistic teenager was prescribed 3 psych drugs which I never gave her   
   
Edited on Sat Jul-16-11 03:02 AM by K8-EEE
Risperdal, Calexa and Xanax, the first two she was supposed to take EVERY DAY for self-injurious behavior that was only occasional. I had to go through hell (and a lot of $$) to get her a medical MJ Rx card which ended up being the answer to our prayers. An under-the-tongue tincture controls occasional anxiety attacks in 20 minutes with zero side effects or addiction; a mild bud leaf capsule at night got her on a regular sleeping pattern. Again, no side effects. THE LIST OF SIDE EFFECTS WITH THE PRESCRIBED MEDS WAS UNREAL. And when I checked with parents in my community they ALL had at least one if not more of the really really bad ones (damage to major organs, "Parkinson's like" symptoms, HUGE weight gain (20 lbs in 3 weeks was usual) and subsequent health problems (juvenile diabetes etc.)

I wonder how many other people with other conditions would be helped by small doses of medical marijuana but are put through this pharma hell for no reason.

Enthusiast   (1000+ posts)             Sat Jul-16-11 05:43 AM
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9. It's like this, the drug industry
   
has become as much of a scourge on society as Fox News.

Unfortunately for you and the other DUmmies, you need those drugs to bend  reality .

elocs (1000+ posts)             Sat Jul-16-11 12:24 PM
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15. Without anti-psych meds my goddaughter would either be dead, in prison,
   
or locked away in some psychiatric facility. She is a paranoid schizophrenic.

I don't question that anti-psych meds are over prescribed, but they have saved her life. With them she is well enough to hold a job and last week she worked canvassing door to door to get out the vote for Jennifer Schilling in the recall primary here in Wisconsin.

[franksolich]

Unfortunately for you and the other DUmmies, you need those drugs to bend  reality.

Exhibit A: Doug's stupid ex-wife.

Exhibit B: all the other primitives.

[JohnnyReb]

If and when I'm depressed, I take..............bacon.

[franksolich]

If and when I'm depressed, I take..............bacon.

Better that than pharmaceuticals, sir.

[formerlurker]

Angell points out, we should "expect the prevalence of mental illness to be declining, not rising." Instead, "the tally of those who are so disabled by mental disorders that they qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) increased nearly two and a half times between 1987 and 2007 - from one in 184 Americans to one in seventy-six.

Ding ding ding -- we have an answer.   Mental Illness gets your SSI ticket punched.

Overhaul SSI so that the only adults who get it are those who are significantly affected by disability (cognitive, medically fragile, severe autism, CP, etc.).   

[Chris_]

Nude Woman Found Dead At SoCal Mansion Of Pharmaceutical Firm CEO

[AprilRazz]

GReedDiamond   (1000+ posts)           Sat Jul-16-11 02:55 AM
Response to Reply #4
5. Yes, many people may currently be "depressed,"...
   
...because, for example, I am too, given the state of current affairs.

However, anti-psychotic medications for the vast general types of peoples' "depression" is overkill.

Cannabis is much more soothing, natural, and organic!

(But only if Legally available in your Local Jurisdiction, nudge nudge, know what I mean.)

Anti-psychotic medications are not given for depression numbnuts.