Russian Suicide Rate Falling

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FYI

 

Agence France Presse reports that suicide rates in Russia have

decreased. Not surprisingly the higherst suicide rates in Russia are

in Sirberia.

 

The article quotes a researcher from the (once dreaded) Serbsky

Psychiatric Institute who, freed from the yoke of Soviet ideological

prism, readily identifies an obvious corrolation between economic

well-being and a lower suicide rate: " This reduction is linked to the

stabilisation of life... due to oil. "

 

How odd that U.S. psychiatrists don't seem capable of making that

obvious connection.

 

But then, U.S. psychiatrists have financial ties to drug

manufacgturers, and these interests lead them to seek to justify the

widespread use of antidepressants.

 

This conflict of interest has led U.S. psychiatrists to engage in

logical contortions when asked to explain fluctuating suicide rates.

 

Obvious empirical factors--such as economic stability--are shunned

in favor of all manner of (unproven) hypothetical, far fetched

biological causes.

 

The historic record in Russia (Soviet Union, KGB) and the U.S. (CIA)

clearly demonstrates that when ideology, an authoritarian regime,

and / or a financial stake drives public policy (clinical practice),

scientific objectivity, common sense, and ethical standards fall by

the wayside.

 

When science and logic are supplanted by dogma or decree abuses

follow.

 

A current example of mental health abuse is a government-supported

screening dragnet.

TeenScreen is an example of a marketing ploy--with an 84% fasle-

positive track record--masquerading as science.

TeenScreen seeks to " catch " children and put them on a lifelong

course of psychotropic drugs.

Those drugs carry black box warning labels because they have lethal

effects.

 

We ban cigarette vendors and alcohol vendors from our schools--we

must not allow the purveyors of mind-altering psychotropic drugs into

our schools.

 

I personally signed the petition against the incursion of TeenScreen

into our schools, and urge you to do the same: -

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contact Vera Hassner Sharav

212-595-8974

veracare

 

http://news./s/afp/20060705/hl_afp/russiahealthsociety_060705

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Russia's oil-driven economic boom is causing a steady reduction in

suicides.

 

Figures for 2004, the last year for which complete statistics are

available, show that 49,000 people committed suicide in that year,

the Novye Izvestia newspaper said Wednesday, citing the federal

statistics service.

 

This compares with a record 61,000 in 1995, the newspaper said.

 

Between January and April this year, 12,900 Russians committed

suicide, a reduction from 14,000 in the same period last year.

 

" This reduction is linked to the stabilisation of life... due to

oil, " the newspaper quoted Vladimir Voitsekh, a researcher into

suicide at the Serbsky Psychiatric Institute, as saying.

 

" But if the oil stops flowing the standard of living will again fall

and the number of suicides will increase, " he said.

 

Russia's Siberian provinces have the highest suicide rates, while the

lowest rates are found in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus.

 

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