The big Bush handout to pharmaceutical companies:

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Saturday, August 21, 2004 commentary:

The big Bush handout to pharmaceutical companies:

mandatory mental health screening for entire U.S.

population

 

The Bush administration's handouts to pharmaceutical

companies just keep on coming. First, it was the

Medicare discount drug card scam which turned out to

be a system that guaranteed pharmaceutical industry

profits thanks to sky-high prices of prescription

drugs (the discounts were nonexistent). Next, it was

the initiation of an anti-terror drug research program

where the government would spend billions of dollars

buying and stockpiling expensive drugs and vaccines to

counter biological weapons. And now, it's the

announcement that President Bush wants to mandate the

mental health screening of the entire U.S. population.

 

Why is this a handout to drug companies? Because these

so-called mental health " disorders " are often

fictitious diseases (like ADHD) that can easily be

attributed to nearly anyone. And once a person is

labeled " diseased, " they can be put on expensive

prescription drugs to alter their brain chemistry.

Make no mistake: this sweeping " public health "

initiative is really just a clever way to dope up half

the population with expensive prescription drugs that

alter brain chemistry. It's a devious plan. And it's

an invasion of personal privacy.

 

It's all made even worse by the sad fact that

antidepressant drugs, which will no doubt be

prescribed in large quantities under this initiative,

are now proven to cause a 400% increase in the risk of

a patient committing suicide. They also provoke

patients to engage in violent acts against others.

These antidepressants alter brain chemistry in

dangerous ways and should probably be banned, not

unleashed on the entire population.

 

The fact is, people don't need prescription drugs to

deal with mental health problems in the first place.

What they need is good nutrition that includes cod

liver oil or other sources of vitamin D (a vitamin D

deficiency is one of the most common causes of mental

instability), a daily dose of natural sunlight on

their skin (sunshine cures depression, and lack of

sunshine is strongly correlated with clinical

depression in the medical literature), regular

physical exercise (strength training, jogging,

swimming or other forms of physical exercise

powerfully alter brain chemistry in an uplifting way),

and of course the consumption of superior nutritional

supplements made with brain-boosting medicinal herbs,

organic whole foods, or superfoods.

 

That's how you solve depression, dementia,

schizophrenia and other mental disorders. And you can

eliminate ADHD practically overnight by taking

children off foods loaded with added sugars or refined

carbohydrates and putting them on whole foods, organic

foods and select nutritional supplements. See, mental

health problems are not caused by a lack of

prescription drugs: they're caused by a lack of

nutrition, sunlight and healthy physical activity. If

you want the entire country to experience outstanding

mental health, you've got to get the people to make

healthy lifestyle choices and keep them far away from

prescription drugs.

 

But of course actually enhancing the mental health of

patients was never the goal of Bush's program. The

intent, it seems, is to generate billions of dollars

in profits for Big Pharma while keeping the population

in a zombie-like state of mind where they will support

more military action against Iraq, or, at least, not

question authority when Ashcroft passes the second

version of the Patriot Act that makes it a federal

crime to not take your medications...