Vast Waste
At the center of it all, the federal government pours enormous sums into “studies.” According to former NIMH director Rex Cowdry, the NIMH from 1994 until the end of 1996 will have spent a total of more than $500 million on depression alone. Expenditures by NIMH do not factor in money doled out by an alphabet soup of other federal agencies, such as the National Institute for Drug Abuse, for their own depression studies. Consider one NIMH grant, begun in 1988, which will continue through 1997, for a study conducted at the Oregon Research Institute by Hyman Hops. Since 1988, this study has soaked $2,000,385 of taxpayers’ money. Does it take $2 million to “videotape interactions between young adults and their parents, friends and sex partners"? Obviously not. Nor should it require eight years and $2 million to get questionnaires answered about “social, psychological, academic behavior, work adjustment, parental contact, and family and peer relationships.”
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