Psychiatrists and other so-called “specialists” in concert with government and the pharmaceutical industry, are concocting a new manual that will vastly increase addiction diagnoses. By revising the definition (making up something else) of addiction, 20,000,000 more people could be diagnosed as addicts.
This manual is a product of the American Psychiatric Association, and supposedly defines what are non-existent “diseases” and “mental disorders.” It is called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or D.S.M.
The very calculating and sorry lot that produces this garbage wants to now include gambling as an addiction, and also wants to have a “catchall category” called “behavioral addiction.” This idiocy could be used to diagnose “addictions” to shopping, Internet play, sex, and a myriad of other fake illnesses.
As stated in this New York Times article, this manual has been embraced by government and industry, the courts, and pharmaceutical companies use it to guide their research. Just imagine, 20,000,000 so-called new addicts as defined by these conniving manipulators are suddenly new customers for the pharmaceutical companies. Happenstance? Not on your life!
This manual is written in secrecy. It is put together by 162 so-called specialists, but their only specialty is fraud. It will impact millions upon millions of unsuspecting people, and in many cases could destroy lives. All this is for the sake of government power, and for huge profits for those in the psychiatric and pharmaceutical fields. All comments on these proposed changes are hidden from the public, and the American Psychiatry Association will continue to earn about $5,000,000.00 annually for this bogus publication.
The bottom line is that two thirds of the panel members involved in writing these changes have ties to the pharmaceutical industry. The head of the addiction working group, a Dr. O’Brien, has been involved with Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis, all of which make drugs marketed to combat addiction. His presence is not coincidental!
According to the same New York Times article, O’Brien “has also worked extensively as a paid consultant for Alkermes, a pharmaceutical company, studying a drug, Vivitrol, that combats alcohol and heroin addiction by preventing craving. He was the driving force behind adding “craving” to the new manual’s list of recognized symptoms of addiction.”
The entire field of psychiatry is suspect at best, but this collusion is criminal to say the least. These trimmers hold in their hands a set of rules that will allow the government to control many more lives based simply on these false diagnoses. It will allow many more taxpayer dollars and false profits to flow into the pockets of “doctors” and pharmaceutical companies. It will destroy lives by arbitrarily diagnosing “mental disorders;” disorders that do not even exist!
It has happened before, but with these new mental criteria, how many will be hauled off to mental hospitals by force? How many will be detained indefinitely by so-called mental institutions funded by the state? How many will lose their jobs? How many lives and families will be irreparably damaged due to this fakery and bogus science? Are you one of the new 20 million?