creating customers for the pharma barons

[donsu]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1480.shtml


Federal government launches marketing campaign for psychiatric industry




Under the guise of combating the stigma of mental illness, the U.S. government will soon begin a massive campaign of psychiatric indoctrination, designed to increase the acceptance of psychiatric chemical imbalance theories and labeling, and to pave the way for national psychiatric screening, driving more Americans into seeking psychiatric drug treatment.

Regional meetings in support of the National Anti-Stigma Campaign (NASC), a nationwide television, radio and print public service advertising program funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), were held this past summer in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C. According to a senior technical assistance specialist at the SAMHSA Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma Associated with Mental Illness (ADS Center), the ad campaign, which will target 18-25-year olds, will be launched today. A campaign directed at older adults and ethnic and racial minorities will follow.

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But there can be no doubt about the real purpose of the campaign’s emotional appeal: to create customers for the psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry. This is clearly evident at SAMHSA’s website and in its literature. It is no accident that 18-25-year olds were chosen as the first target. A SAMHSA “Fact Sheet” states, “Among 18-25-year olds, the prevalence of serious mental health conditions is high . . . yet this age group shows the lowest rate of help-seeking behaviors .” “Help-seeking behavior” is, of course, a euphemism for being psychiatrically diagnosed and drugged. The 18-25-year old demographic represents a huge untapped market for psychiatric drugs and services. According to SAMHSA’s website, the anti-stigma media blitz “has been designed to establish a ‘new norm,’ in which individuals, without hesitation, will seek out the mental health services they need and deserve.”

The drug industry seeds NASC (section heading)

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Several members of the NFC had extensive ties to the pharmaceutical industry, principally by way of an industry marketing scheme that was developed in Texas in the 1990s. Known as the Texas Medication Algorithm Project, or TMAP, it was designed to make the newest and most expensive psychiatric drugs the first (and virtually only) treatment option for mental health care. The project was nurtured at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, a major research center that conducts drug trials for pharmaceutical companies, with significant funding coming from the drug companies themselves. Pharmaceutical company gifts to the Texas Department of State Health Services totaled $1.3 million from 1997 to 2004, with at least $834,000 earmarked for TMAP.

Backed by drug industry funding, TMAP was then exported to other states via the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD).

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NASC and screening: Educating Americans to be good customers (section heading)

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The real source of the stigma (section heading)

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nstead, our government will tell us of the terrible consequence of failing to seek treatment. We’ll be told to get branded -- and encourage our friends and family to do the same - as soon as possible. We’ll be assured that life on the pill plantation is a wonderful thing.

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fight brainwashing or you will find your brain on drugs - expensive drugs

[MrCoffee]

1. on the other hand, there is a huge stigma attached to serious psychiatric conditions

an effort to help reduce that stigma and encourage those with problems to seek help isn't necessarily a bad thing.

[OneBlueSky]

3. that is NOT the purpose here . . .

the purpose here is to indoctrinate the public so we'll accept things like the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health and its recommendations . . . which include screening EVERY American citizen for mental health conditions and MANDATING the use of specific, high-cost drugs for those who are "diagnosed" . . . the screening program is alrady starting in some schools . . .

The Therapeutic Nanny State
by U.S. Representative Ron Paul, M.D.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul204.html

[bryant69]

Lew Rockwell - seems like I've heard that name before

Bryant

[havocmom]

8. Who recalls, in very early days of bush malAdministration,

story in news then dropped off radar, about DOD looking for ways to administer drugs to calm large, urban populations in the event the military had to occupy any particular population?

I won't take a flu shot with these people in power.

They have had a decades long program to dumb down Americans. They control the news and are doing programs to numb down Americans. Still, some of us persist in being rabble rousing louts who INSIST on speaking truth and asking embarrassing questions. They sure need a way to neutralize those of us who rant and rave and continue to not buy into the delusions they foist on the population as reality.

Thinkin there is more than Big Pharma profit$ going on.

[bryant69]

2. Better that people suffer than seek help?

If seeking help benefits a corporation - apparently so.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[valerief]

4. And once you have the kiddies all drugged up, it'll be easier to get

more of them to fight your wars.

[Horse with no Name]

5. On my last day of work last week

We had three young (18-23 yrs) mothers that all bore diagnoses of bipolar.
Considering we only had 6 patients, I feel the diagnosis is being given a little more frivolously these days because pharma wants to shove its meds down the throats of that population.
They diagnose the little kids with ADHD and then label late teens and early adulthood bipolar.
It really sucks, IMHO.

[Avalux]

6. Anyone remember this? In the works for awhile now -

Bush's Texas Two-Step: TeenScreen and TMAP

By Evelyn Pringle
Online Journal Contributing Writer

May 27, 2005—On April 29, 2002, George W. Bush established the New Freedom Commission (NFC) by executive order. While speaking in New Mexico on that date, he said mental health centers and hospitals, homeless shelters, the justice and school systems have contact with individuals suffering from mental disorders but that too many Americans fall through the cracks of the current system and so he created the commission to ensure “that the cracks are closed.”

On July 22, 2003, the NFC recommended redesigning the mental health systems in all 50 states. Its press release stated, "Achieving this goal will require greater engagement and education of first line health care providers—primary care practitioners—and a greater focus on mental health care in institutions such as schools, child welfare programs, and the criminal and juvenile justice systems. The goal is integrated care that can screen, identify, and respond to problems early."

Two of the so-called model programs that Bush wants to establish in all 50 states are TeenScreen and TMAP (Texas Medication Algorithm Project). The truth is, this whole New Freedom facade is nothing more than an elaborate profiteering scheme involving the Bush administration, local government officials, and the pharmaceutical industry to increase the market for the sale of expensive psychiatric drugs.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/health/052705Pringle/052705pringle.html

[Mind_your_head]

7. K & R - I hope more people will see this

"But there can be no doubt about the real purpose of the campaign’s emotional appeal: to create customers for the psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry. This is clearly evident at SAMHSA’s website and in its literature."

[Bluerthanblue]

9. the returning soldiers are going to overwhelm the system as it is-

and on what SHOULD be the governments 'dime'-

But I'll wager you won't find too much 'big pharma' money spent on helping them cope with the emotional life altering wounds that they carry around- It will be like Vietnam redux- self-medicating and slow suicides.

Broken spirits and broken relationships.


I hate this world- and all its greed and game playing- all the indifference and selfish- self oriented garbage.

[sui generis]

10. there is one thing that will kill this dead: listen up Pelosi.

That precious item on reducing government healthcare costs by returning negotiating privilege to the government will kill this like a javelin to their shrivelled black little heart. Do it. Take the profit out of basic healthcare.

You want to cure depression? Enforce a forty hour work week. Give people their personal lives back. Give people in the workforce their families and children back. Give their kids a future by offering an affordable higher education that won't put them in debt until they're near retirement. Pay a living wage. Offer universal basic healthcare to all Americans everywhere at every stage of life, period.

Now let's see if we still need those verfuckted pills.

[donsu]

11. I'll second that - listen up Pelosi

nt