Dr. Peter Breggin
The Huffington Post
June 20, 2009
Here are the starting facts: Death by suicide is at record levels in the armed services. Simultaneously the use of antidepressant drugs is also at record levels, including brand names like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa and Lexapro. According to the army, in 2007 17% of combat troops in Afghanistan were taking prescription antidepressants or sleeping pills. Inside sources have given me an even bleaker picture: During Vietnam, a mere 1% our troops were taking prescribed psychiatric drugs. By contrast, in the past year one-third of marines in combat zones were taking psychiatric drugs.
Are the pills helping? The army confirms that since 2002 the number of suicide attempts has increased six-fold. And more than 128 soldiers killed themselves last year.
One theory states that the increased prescription of drugs is a response to increased depression among the soldiers. In reality, the use of psychiatric drugs escalates when, and only when, drug companies and their minions target new markets. In this case, the armed services have been pushing drugs as a cheap alternative to taking genuine care of the young men and women in our military. Instead of shortening tours of duty, instead of temporarily removing stressed-out soldiers from combat zones, and instead of providing counseling–the new army policy is to drug the troops.
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A very big thank you to Dr.Bregginfor his courage and honesty.
We the people need to hear more of the crimes that are taking place against humaity,this is a systamatic murder of man.More often than not I feel defenceless and useless to my fellow man when I hear what is being done to hundres of thousands of people world wide. Some how these crimes need to reach a broader public and then people like you and me need to take responsibility and force our respective goverments to protect us from these criminals whose only interest is money and to hell with what misery a person goes through and to hell with what families go through watching their loved ones being mentaly and physicaly torn apart and all under the disguise of help. It is very difficult for ordinary people to believe this is happening, one believes that our goverments would not allow this but they do. You would think that an investgative journalist would pounce on a story like this but they dont. Why. I can only think that that they are being told to bury their heads in the sand by their masters for what else am I to believe. However it is up to us to start saying enough is enough a leader is needed for the biggest fight humanity has known much bigger than any of the world wars we have been through.
Good people you should see a amazing documentary by BBC with facts that prove psychiatry is fake. The documentary is: The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom. Foward the documentary to Dr. R.D.Laing. He made people aware of false labels in psychiatry. You can watch the documentary for free at: http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtis_TheTrap
There is also a good book, Pseudoscience in biological psychiatry, by prof. Ross and Pam.