Big Pharma’s Font for Lies Is Always Boldface

     Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring made this request at the end of his Monday Facebook post this week: “If you believe people deserve informed consent before being handed a psychiatric medication in a seven-minute appointment, share this post.” We’re honoring his request here.

     In a response to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK’s now looking into the over-prescription of America, leaders from America’s psychiatric community recently issued a public statement in defense of the safety and the effectiveness of psychiatric medications. The lies they include there are so boldface, it is stunning.

     Dr. Josef read through the entire text of their argument and said, “It is one of the most masterful efforts at deception I have seen in a long time” and equivalent to those medical experts who, contrary to all the available evidence, used to deny that smoking causes cancer.

     The organizations that issued the pro-drug, Big Pharma statement are either heavily funded by the pharmaceutical industry or run by individuals with their own deep financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. Their statement claims that psychiatric medications are both safe and effective, and in it they attack anyone raising any concerns about that and they imply they are putting lives at risk by trying to deny the “mentally ill” public those drugs.

     If the drugs were effective, that might be true. But they are not. First, the clinical trials that show that these medications are safe and effective usually only run for three months or less, but half of all Americans who take antidepressants have been taking them for more than five years. There is no rigorous long-term evidence from any study which shows what these drugs actually do to a person, mentally or physically, over the long term.

     Second, the “relapse prevention” studies that have been made about psychotropic drugs only medicate their subjects for six months and then abruptly switch half the control group to a placebo, sometimes with as little as five days of tapering off the drug. Of course they show a relapse of their condition, but it is not a relapse. It is simply harsh withdrawal symptoms from ceasing the heavy duty medication so abruptly.

     Those last two paragraphs, you’ll notice, are not in boldface. They don’t have to be. They contain no lies.
Thank you, Dr. Josef, for all the good work you do. We’re more than happy to share your message.

     Who Knows? Maybe even RFK Jr. will read it.