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Mental Health Industry Facts
- Mental Health patients are not informed of alternatives to psychiatric drugs, electroshock and other harmful practices. In doing so, psychiatrists violate patients’ informed consent rights on a daily basis.
- In a survey of legislators in 1989, the vast majority felt that other professionals such as chiropractors, nutritionists, holistic practitioners, and allergists could be utilized to solve some of these same problems that psychiatrists treat.
- A 1991 Gallup poll found that 90 percent of patients regard their chiropractic care as effective and that approximately 80 percent consider the treatment costs reasonable. Compare this to a recent study revealing that the effectiveness of psychiatric treatment is less than 1%.
- In a survey of physicians in three European countries and in the United States, 72% said qualities that best describe a good physician are compassion, caring, personable and good listening and communication skills. In this way, they felt they could help make their patients healthier and lead better lives.
- In a national survey of psychiatrists about their “fantasies” and malpractice, the results of which were published in Psychiatric Times in 2001, Dr. Sander Breiner, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Michigan State University found that psychiatrists’ number one fantasy was “…I will be able to ‘cure’ the patient.” The second ranking fantasy was “The patient wants to know what his or her problem is.”
- Dr. Sander Breiner also determined that 40% of psychiatrists are sued for malpractice during the course of their career.
- Many nursing and medical school students have visited CCHR’s “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death” Museum viewing its 14 documentaries now available in a DVD of the same name: Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Documentary. A common denominator among students seeing these is a concern over the increasing reliance upon psychotropic drugs in hospital settings and the damaging effects they have observed in patients prescribed them.
- During the last decade, over 25,000 lawsuits have been pending in the United States against pharmaceutical companies and psychiatrists arising out of deaths and injuries caused by several classes of psychiatric drugs. The Courts of every state have been inundated with litigation involving the damage caused by psychiatric drugs.
- A survey of 531 psychiatrists determined that 25% had chosen the field of psychiatry because of their own psychiatric problems or treatment. Psychiatrists have higher rates of alcohol abuse and abuse of both prescription and other drugs.
- The British Medical Journal has pointed to the disproportionate number of suicides among psychiatrists. In another study, 56% of those in the suicide group had prescribed a psychoactive drug for themselves and 42% had been seeing a mental health professional at the time of their self-inflicted death.
- A study of Medicaid and Medicare insurance fraud in the U.S. over a 20 year period, showed psychiatry to have the worst track record of all medical disciplines.
- The largest health care fraud suit in U.S. history was in mental health, with over $1.1 billion paid out in civil penalties and criminal fines to government, insurance agencies and patients.
- Between 10% and 25% of psychiatrists admit to sexually abusing their patients. A U.S. national study of therapist-client sex involving minors revealed that 1 out of 20 victims of therapist sexual assault were minors.
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