“These drugs have been considered carcinogens in humans.”– Professor David O. Antonuccio
The simple answer is that additional federal funds poured into psychiatric research are not needed and only exacerbate endemic problems of waste and fraud. In 1992, U.S. Representative Pat Schroeder, then chair of the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, summarized the abuses and criminality that characterize institutional psychiatry kept alive in large measure by government infusions of cash for “research.” Her words regarding what she condemned as “unethical and disturbing practices” in psychiatry ring even more true today: “Our investigation has found: that thousands of adolescents, children, and adults have been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment they didn’t need; that hospitals hire bounty hunters to kidnap patients with mental health insurance; that patients are kept against their will until their insurance benefits run out; that psychiatrists are being pressured by the hospitals to alter their diagnosis to increase profits; that hospitals ’infiltrate’ schools by paying kickbacks to school counselors who deliver students; that bonuses are paid to hospital employees, including psychiatrists, for keeping the hospital beds filled; and that military dependents are being targeted for their generous mental health benefits. “I could go on, but you get the picture. Clearly, this business of treating minds particularly this big business of treating young minds has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on. This leads me to conclude that Federal and State oversight must be increased.”
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