Antidepressants double the risk of major birth defects, double the rate of miscarriages (one of the biggest predictors of a woman’s future mental health), cause all kinds of other problems and now appear linked to learning disabilities/mental handicap/autistic spectrum disorder in the children born to women who take them during pregnancy.
The rallying cry is we want to Beat Cancer or Beat Schizophrenia. It would be un-American not to want to beat Cancer or Disease. This is exactly what pharmaceutical companies trade on – what makes them so profitable and what gives them such an inside political track. Beating Cancer or Disease means getting the latest high tech weaponry and deploying it with as much Shock and Awe as possible.
The latest doesn’t mean the best. It used to be the American way to put Men on the Moon and to produce the drugs that got people off their death beds and back to work before anyone else. But rather like the recent North Korean rocket that crashed soon after take-off Western drugs are increasingly more likely to kill than cure but we take them it seems in part because they create jobs
....the art of medicine lies in knowing how to administer medicines properly, but that it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when not to treat” increasingly to Western ears sounds very like Jacques Chirac the French President (aka the cheese eating surrender monkey) at the time of the Second Gulf War suggesting it might be wiser not to go to war. This is not the American way.
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