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Before psychiatrists start vying for more $ to drug troops ask: Was Fort Hood, Texas shooter part of our medicated army?

Data contained in the Army’s fifth Mental Health Advisory Team report indicate that, according to an anonymous survey of U.S. troops taken last fall, about 12% of combat troops in Iraq and 17% of those in Afghanistan are taking prescription antidepressants or sleeping pills to help them cope. Nearly 40% of Army suicide victims in 2006 and 2007 took psychotropic drugs — overwhelmingly, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like Prozac and Zoloft.

LewRockwell.com – The Big Government-Big Pharma Complex: Disease Mongering for Fear and Profit

The documentary film, Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs is reviewed. The author states, “Perhaps a most disturbing trend brought up in the film is the wacky, wild world of ‘things just ain’t right’ disorders. Whether it’s ‘generalized anxiety disorder,’ ‘major depressive disorder,’ ‘panic disorder,’ ‘acute social phobia,’ or finally, the celebrated ‘social anxiety disorder,’ there’s a disorder to fit you and explain away your day-to-day problems.”

Suicide Prevention Drug Pushing Racket – Part II by Evelyn Pringle

In nearly all the studies and papers published over the years that claim SSRIs work with children and do not cause suicide, the same academic quacks appear as investigators and co-authors. The list of names includes, but is not limited to, Joseph Biederman, David Brent, Jeffrey Bridge, David Dunner, Graham Emslie, Daniel Geller, Robert Gibbons, Frederick Goodwin, Martin Keller, Andrew Leon, Anne Libby, John Mann, John March, Charles Nemeroff, John Rush, Neal Ryan, David Shaffer, Karen Wagner and Robert Valuck.