Nor are troops the only cash cows for Big Pharma. One in
four women are on psychoactive drugs according to published
reports and millions of children are on psychoactive drugs, especially poor
and those with disability status.
When the FDA first put suicide warnings on antidepressants
for young people in the mid 2000s, Big Pharma linked psychiatrists like Charles
Nemeroff argued that suicides would go up if doctors and patients were
scared off by the black box warnings. Though the argument was absurd--is the
nation fat because fen-phen was withdrawn?--the theory got play in the
mainstream and medical press until it was proven wrong.
Yet as the Surgeon General and HHS proved this week, the
government is still in denial about suicide and the elephant in the room called
Big Pharma. Instead of spending millions on counselors, crisis lines, and
"awareness campaigns" why doesn't it look at the millions it's
spending on suicide-linked drugs?
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More information about overmedication of troops and
suicide-linked drugs is found in Martha Rosenberg's recently published Born
With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health .
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