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Mental Health Industry Facts

  • 9 million American children are taking prescribed psychiatric drugs, many of them labeled by the Drug Enforcement Administration as more potent than cocaine or by the Food and Drug Administration as causing hostility and suicide.

  • School shooters have been “psyched out” on these drugs, while pharmaceutical companies and the FDA covered up the violence- and suicide-inducing side effects for 13 years.

  • 36 million Americans are taking antidepressants for a medical condition that doesn’t exist, except in the minds of pharmaceutical company marketing executives.

  • The psychotropic (mind-altering) prescription drug market is a $27 billion a year industry, with one drug alone generating as much revenue in a year as the entire National Football League.

  • A pharmaceutical company and the FDA covered up 20 deaths and 12 suicides among individuals taking one psychiatric drug during its clinical trials. Paying out over $1 billion to settle suits against the drug, the company has been allowed to seal critical documents that would expose the truth about the drug.

  • Clinical drug experiments are often conducted on homeless people, immigrants, children in orphanages, and others with some kind of disadvantage. For one struggling 19-year-old college student, the $150 she was paid a day to be part of an experiment, ended with her hanging herself with a scarf in the drug company’s bathroom.

  • An advisory group to the federal government has now recommended a nationwide “mental health screening” of 52 million children which could increase the number of children taking psychiatric drugs to 30 million.

  • Legalized “speed” is already being doled out to kids, with sales of these drugs reaching $3.3 billion in 2005. The same drugs are being sold illegally in schools, with 2.3 million teens now abusing them. While marijuana, cocaine and Ecstasy require teenagers to have underground connections, any child with prescription stimulants has the potential to be a dealer.

  • There is a history of fraud with psychiatric diagnoses. The 1973 best-selling book Sybil (also a film in 1977), described a woman with 16 personalities. In 1998, the book was unmasked as a fraud. Dr. Robert Rieber of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, reviewed research and interview tapes that suggest Sybil’s personalities may have been implanted by her own psychiatrist, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur. Conversations between Wilbur and Flora Schreiber, the author of the book, document "the fraudulent construction of a multiple personality.” Dr. Herbert Spiegel of Columbia University, who knew the real patient, protested the diagnosis but said it was a matter of, “If we don't call it a multiple personality, we don't have a book! The publishers want it to be that, otherwise it won't sell!" Harvard psychologist and Utah attorney, R. Christopher Barden, has won 59 suits against “repressed memory therapy” the method often used to implant multiple personalities using hypnosis and drugs. In one suit, the psychiatric facility where the “therapy” was practiced paid a record $10.6 million.

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