The trend of throwing powerful psychotropics at all emotional and behavioral problems has many casualties. Now, it seems, our soldiers and marines are among them. The over-marketing of and over prescribing of psychiatric medications, especially anti-psychotics, has accelerated greatly in the last ten years as a matter of profit and convenience. I've written before about the impact on children and the epidemic of certain diagnoses that are driven by the drugs that can be prescribed for them rather than any scientific evidence. The link below reports that these medications are not only ineffective but harmful. The questions in this case are whether anyone will pay attention and whether the government will resist the inevitable blowback from the BigPharma and psychiatric lobbies designed to keep the cash cow flowing.
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