Let’s not kid ourselves here, science isn’t certainty. This society has become so failure averse, and as a result, so risk intolerant, that nothing really bold is underway anymore.
Why take a chance when a pack of flesh-eating tort shysters will wreck your company? Not that they did a single thing for the permanent benefit of humanity in their entire miserable lives.
Brain science? That’s an oxymoron. Nobody knows anything about the brain, and if they do they are lying. It’s like magnetism. It’s ‘FM’. F***ing Magic.
They feed people things, watch what happens, and then indicate it for psych disorders. What works for one guy, doesn’t for the other. The one’s it works for scream bloody murder if they can’t get it. The other half want to sue.
Science, brain or otherwise, is Science. Fraud is not Science.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/
These Psych crackpots have been propping the same idiotic theories for over a century now. The knowledge base itself for determining that Psych diagnoses are discrete, label-able malfunctions is still ripped right out of the ears of seance suckers, Nazi worshippers, and Godless, scatterbrained, New Age blockheads.
The economic devastation alone these Snake Oil Peddlers are causing us is off the charts. If those flesh-eating tort shysters wreck your company for selling brain eating, 100%, defective, proven crap, then they’ve done Everyone a huge service no matter How much money they make or What their motivation is.
1 out of 15 young people, Ruined for life. Cost to everyone else?
$1 Million for EACH of those 1 in 15 in lifetime SSI/SSDI payments.
Pg 245
The Disability Numbers
There are no good studies yet on the percentage of “early onset” bipolar patients when they reach adulthood, end up on the SSI and SSDI disability rolls. However, the astonishing jump in the number of “severely mentally ill” children receiving SSI speaks volumes about the havoc that is being wreaked. There were 16,200 Psychiatrically disabled youth under 18 years old on the SSI rolls in 1987, and they comprised less than 6 percent of the total number of disabled children. Twenty years later, there were 561,569 disabled mentally ill children on the SSI rolls, and they comprised 50 percent of the total. This epidemic is even hitting preschool children. The prescribing of psychotropic drugs to two-year-olds and three-year-olds began to become more commonplace about a decade ago, and sure enough, the number of severely mentally ill children under 6 years of age receiving SSI has tripled since then, rising from 22,453 in 2000 to 65,928 in 2007 (98)
Moreover, the SSI numbers only begin to hint at the scope of the harm being done. Everywhere there is evidence of a worsening of the mental health of children and teenagers. From 1995 to 1999, psychiatric-related Emergency Room visits by children increased 59 percent. (99)
The deteriorating mental health of the nation’s children, declared U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher in 2001, constituted a “health crisis.” (100) Next, colleges were suddenly wondering why so many of their students were suffering manic episodes or behaving in disturbed ways; a 2007 survey discovered that one in six college students had deliberately “cut or burned self” in the prior year. (101) All of this led the U.S. Government Accountability Office to investigate what was going on, and it reported in 2008 that one in every fifteen young adults, eighteen to twenty-six years old, is now “seriously mentally ill”. There are 680,000 in that age group with bipolar disorder and another 800,000 ill with major depression, and, the GAO noted, this was in fact an undercount of the problem, as it didn’t include young adults who were homeless, incarcerated, or institutionalized.
That is where we stand as a nation today. Twenty years ago our society began regularly prescribing psychiatric drugs to children and adolescents, and now one out of every fifteen Americans enters adulthood with a “serious mental illness.” That is proof of the most tragic sort that our drug based paradigm of care is doing a great deal more harm than good. The medicating of children and youth became commonplace only a short time ago, and already it has put millions onto a path of lifelong illness.
98: Social Security Administration, annual statistical reports on the SSI program, 1996-2008, Social Security Bulletin, Annual Statistical Supplement, 1988-1992
99: Pediatric Academic Societies, Pediatric Psychiatric admissions on the rise,” May 16, 2000 press release
100: D. Satcher, Report of Surgeon General’s Conference on Children’s Mental Health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2001).
101: B. Whitford: “Depression, eating disorders and other mental illnesses are on the rise, Newsweek, August 27, 2008
Even the VA admits these drugs are worthless.
http://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn3/education.asp
“Algorithms:
A review of existing algorithms, including VA National Guidelines, APA, the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), and PORT was conducted. After careful consideration, a modified version of TMAP was selected, and named the New Jersey Algorithm.
The sequence includes two trials of atypical antipsychotics followed by a Clozaril trial. If no favorable response is observed, a third atypical neuroleptic is tried, followed by a typical neuroleptic, followed by a combination of antipsychotic medications. The consensus of the internal advisory committee was to provide a flexible algorithm that will allow for minor modifications as new research is disseminated. Though a positive outcome has not been observed with the NJ Algorithm to date, researchers suspect that a larger sample size might generate significant findings in the future.”
“Though a Positive Outcome has not been observed with the New Jersey Algorithm to date.”
That’s with All of the drugs, not just one or two of them. Half a Century of this brain eating filth, both new and old.
Wreck your Company?
Excuse me while I get a box of Kleenex and cry your company a river.
Knowing, Intentional Fraud is not Science.