Ask yourself these questions: How far would a multi-billion-dollar industry go to protect its interests when threatened with publicity of its knowledge that its products could cause suicide, violence and death? What would it do to silence those that knew the truth and exposed it? Why would a government agency allow such an industry to get away with this, especially at the potential risk of millions of people’s lives that they were sworn to protect?
The report in the link below shows how millions of consumers in the United States and around the world were deceived about medications that they were told corrected a “chemical imbalance” in the brain that doesn’t exist.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers used the theory to conduct clinical drug trials to produce drugs to treat the “imbalance.”
They manufactured drugs for “disorders” catalogued in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) that have never stood the test of science.
As a 2006 study determined, 56% of those psychiatrists determining what disorders were included in the DSM were pharmaceutical-funded. Based on the DSM, more than $100 billion of taxpayers’ money is expended every year on psychiatric services in the United States, and billions more around the world.
Imagine a heart surgeon diagnosing a heart defect and performing by-pass surgery without any physical confirmation of irregularity, or an oncologist diagnosing cancer and prescribing chemotherapy based on the “general agreement” that cancer exists but never verifying it with physical tests.
In the interests of consumer protection, the report in the link is a history of the cover-up of antidepressant risks and CCHR’s vigilant exposure of this and other dangerous psychotropic drugs, as well as its long history of exposing the chemical imbalance myth. Parents, whistleblowers and legislators are also among the many that saw the need to warn others about these drugs and how vested interest groups fought to ensure consumers didn’t know the truth. The report tracks key events spanning 20 years and is a resource for those wanting the facts.
