Chapter Eleven
The Psychiatric & Pharmaceutical Industries Unholy Alliance
“What is dangerous about the tranquilizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged piece of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.”
Max Learner
The Unfinished Country
As a child in the 1950’s and 1960’s, Max visited county and state psychiatric facilities and hospitals, with his father, a Dr. of Psychology. Max was exposed to things most American children and adults never saw first hand, or even heard about. He witnessed the warehousing of human beings, wondering aimlessly around wards often very nude, with no staff intervention. He observed them hosed down nude to remove stuck on feces. There was little to no therapeutic programs, other than just the warehousing of human beings, similar to many prisons. Max never forgot those examples of man’s inhumanity to man, even though he wished he could, but his photographic memory would not allow him that relief. Max did not know then how, but he was determined to change those conditions.
It was around the same time that psychiatric medication came onto the scene, and change came, but it was not for the better. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed his last bill. It was a 3 billion dollar bill that authorized the deinstitutionalization of our abused psychiatric hospitalized patients back into community-based programs. He was also thinking of the gradual withdraw of American advisors from Vietnam. As this was not in the best economic interest of the psychiatric industry and with the escalation of the Vietnam War, not one penny of this money was ever appropriated, and President Kennedy was assassinated. Camelot and idealism was sacrificed for the benefit of the military industrial complex, along with the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries.
With unemployment in America running in the 10% range in 2009, only legal drug dealers can be assured of a job. According to our own United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics, they pointed out that in 2006, 292,000 people worked in the legal drug traffic trade in America, better known as the pharmaceutical industry. An industry expected to grow 23.7% by 2016. The pharmaceutical and drug manufacturing plants consists of 2,500 places of employment in America, creating approximately 100 new drugs annually.
From their report, “Even during fluctuating economic conditions, there will be a market for over-the-counter and prescription drugs…Even during periods of high unemployment, work is likely to be relatively stable in this industry.”...
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