With armies of lavishly equipped sales and marketing personnel swarming around America’s medical doctors, and barrages of multi-media advertisements aimed at consumers, the psychiatric architects of the depression war seek to get as many people as possible labeled “depressed.”
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A team of three medical researchers, led by Uriel Halbreich, M.D., of New York University at Buffalo, New York, discovered that between 1987 and 1991, breast cancer in psychiatric patients treated with antidepressants was 9 1/2 times greater than in the general U.S. population for women aged 50 and older. The psychiatric patients’ ages were comparable, ranging upward from 40.
For this study, the researchers reviewed mammograms and charts of 275 female patients.
They also compared these 275 psychiatric patients to 928 women of similar age at a general hospital radiology clinic. The findings showed that breast cancer in women treated with antidepressants was 3 1/2 times greater than the radiology patients.
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