How Involuntary Incarceration Laws Help Big Pharma Make Money from the Homeless

     Forced psychiatric incarceration has now come full circle in America.

     After the ever increasing money that state taxpayers had had to pay to keep the “insane” institutionalized up until the nineteen-fifties, the FDA’s approval for the use of psychotropic medications such as Thorazine offered an alternate, less expensive “treatment” for those mentally disturbed members of society who had been kept in horrible institutions for the previous hundred years.
 
     President Kennedy’s signing of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963 opened the doors of America’s state psychiatric institutions, and they began to release thousands of residents, mostly labeled schizophrenic, out into the world. To house and care for these poor souls, a national network of 1500 community mental health centers was to be constructed.

     However, less than half of those facilities have ever been built. Instead, many of those released from mental hospitals have ended up homeless on our streets. In 2024 there were about three quarters of a million homeless people in the United States. Most of them, correctly or incorrectly, are considered “mentally ill” or – psychiatry’s catch all diagnosis – “schizophrenic.”

     In the last few years involuntary incarceration laws have been strengthened in many states so that these people can more easily be rounded up and forced back into the institutions they were freed from fifty years ago.

     State and federal taxpayers will again foot the bill, but today all that revenue goes to Big Pharma to pay for the prescribed medications these people take or will be forced to take.  

     To make rounding up these individuals from off the streets simpler, a new diagnosis had to be coined by psychiatry to label these folks. They have “anosognosia.” It’s defined as “lack of insight” and is “a biological condition that prevents some people with severe mental illness from knowing they are experiencing symptoms of a brain disorder.”

     In other words, it’s the perfect Catch-22 for incarcerating a person involuntarily. If they claim they are not schizophrenic, or have some other psychiatric “disorder,” they are then labeled as anosognosic, and – bingo! – the law now has reason to lock them up and involuntarily keep them on hold for an indeterminate time. And, yes, they can be forced to take heavy psychotic medication as well.

     The revenue from all those prescriptions – paid for now by the state or the federal government – goes right into the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies.

     Anosognosia is listed as a “biological condition,” despite the fact that the whole chemical imbalance theory has been thoroughly debunked by tons of competent research. There is no physical or biological cause behind any of the psychiatric labels – like anosognosia – that are contained in the psychiatrists’ bible, the DSM.

     Civil rights activists have brought lawsuits alleging these policies that violate one’s constitutional guaranty of due process and equal protection, as well as one’s right to privacy, autonomy and liberty. So far, none of these harsh laws have been overturned.

     Meanwhile, even more expensive psychiatric drugs for the “treatment” of those who have anosognosia are being developed, such as Bristol Myers Squibb’s KAR XT, which is already projected to earn $7 billion by 2028.

     That’s an awful lot of money to be earned from people who, once again, do not have a choice.