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Home Caffeine Blog State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us State Legislators Do Have a Tool to Curb ECT Abuse   October 23, 2025 – Robert Carter      Americans remain vulnerable to permanent damage from electroconvulsive treatments because the FDA has refused to regulate the ECT industry. The FDA claims that ECT is “the practice of medicine” and therefore it is beyond their jurisdiction to rule. The FDA has also kept the ECT devices in a Class II (moderate risk) classification for some applications instead of the Class III (high risk) category they had uniformly been in before 2018 when the FDA grandfathered in the legal use of them, without any evidence for their safety or effectiveness.      ECT is consequently a virtually unregulated practice today and there is not even a requirement to report the number of ECT treatments given in America, let alone the results, positive or negative, from its use. Americans therefore remain at risk to permanent damage from up to 460 volts being run through their brains.

Home Caffeine Blog Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance October 15, 2025 – Robert Carter In February this year, prominent British psychiatrist David Nutt published a “personal view” in Lancet Psychiatry, a publication ranked second of the most influential psychiatry journals. It was titled “Drug Development in Psychiatry: 50 Years of Failure and How to Resuscitate It.” What does Nutt claim is the reason for that failure? Not the number of randomized trials that have shown that psychiatric drugs do more harm than good. Not the revelation that it’s almost impossible to get off these drugs without horrible withdrawal ordeals. Not the studies that show that suicide rates double for those who are taking antidepressants. Nope. It’s those pesky anti-psychiatry folks who are at fault. “Unlike other branches of medicine,” Nutt claims, “psychiatry is in constant battles with lobby groups that oppose its very existence as a medical specialty.” According to Nutt, anti-psychiatry lobby groups “deny the concept of mental illness being due to alterations in brain function, from which it follows that they do not believe in pharmacological treatments and actively campaign to have them banned

Home Caffeine Blog Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Nutt Case: Top British Psychiatrist’s Pro-Drug Stance   October 15, 2025 – Robert Carter      In February this year, prominent British psychiatrist David Nutt published a “personal view” in Lancet Psychiatry, a publication ranked second of the most influential psychiatry journals. It was titled “Drug Development in Psychiatry: 50 Years of Failure and How to Resuscitate It.”      What does Nutt claim is the reason for that failure?      Not the number of randomized trials that have shown that psychiatric drugs do more harm than good. Not the revelation that it’s almost impossible to get off these drugs without horrible withdrawal ordeals. Not the studies that show that suicide rates double for those who are taking antidepressants.      Nope. It’s those pesky anti-psychiatry folks who are at fault.      “Unlike other branches of medicine,” Nutt claims, “psychiatry is in constant battles with lobby groups that oppose its very existence as a medical specialty.” According to Nutt, anti-psychiatry lobby groups “deny the concept of mental illness being due to alterations in brain function, from which it follows that they do not

Home Caffeine Blog Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog Coercion: Psychiatry’s Quintessential Tool Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: An Enforced “Solution” that Makes the Problem Far Worse New Study Shows Just How Early “Just Drug ‘Em” Operations Begin for Children Diagnosed with ADHD New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News The “Slow Taper”: New Book Crossing Zero Shows You How to Successfully Get Off Psychiatric Drugs New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us How Insurance Companies Profit from Antidepressants October 11, 2025 – Robert Carter If Americans are being overmedicated, how is it that insurance companies have not tried to reduce the number of prescriptions for antidepressants that 43 million American are now taking? Yes, this for-profit industry can – and do — raise their premiums for mental health coverage, but that’s no guarantee of profit when there are so many people taking antidepressants. No actuaries find enough revenue in that. Until they factor in Pharmacy Benefit Managers. These PBMs negotiate prices and rebates for antidepressants (and other medications) and so can allow insurers – who own their own PBMs…and that’s the catch — to receive more revenue because of the difference between the price charged to the insurer and the payment received by the pharmacy. As with many of the clever “in-between guys” of any industry which have cleverly inserted themselves into production or distribution chains to earn additional profits from products, PBMs have come about between drug manufacturers and pharmacies to either mitigate a potential loss or, better yet, actually add profit to the insurance industry. Actuaries love them. Insurance companies do now justify raising their premiums for antidepressant coverage because of the increased costs that Big Pharma now charges. The public won’t therefore object…much. The real difference

Home Caffeine Blog New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Home Caffeine Blog New Survey Shows ECT a Dangerous Failure British Psychiatrists Distort Antidepressant Withdrawal Dangers 50th Anniversary Re-release of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Force Supplants Mercy in Today’s Corporal Psychiatry ADHD Drugs Increase Psychosis FDA’s Approval of ECT Device Use Parallels 1950s Psychiatric Mind Control Experiments Big Pharma Targets Women ECT Device Lethal? Chemical Imbalance Is Evil? ECT’s La La Land No Chemical Imbalance? Real Reason ECT Works? The Ethics of ECT Evaluate ECT with Common Sense. The Psychiatric Lie of “Schizophrenia” Defer the FDA Bribery into the Future New FDA Ban of Mini-Electroshock Device Shows Hypocrisy Dangerous Side Effects of Antidepressant Zoloft No Child Left Unmedicated When Is a Diagnosis Not a Diagnosis Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment A Brutal Political Tool So What’s Wrong, Really, with Feeling Sadness or Anxiety? Telehealth Statistics Highlight Psychiatry’s Reliance on Opinion, NotFact, to Treat Their Patients Psychiatrists Cannot Adhere to Informed Consent Laws Psychiatry Turns Asylums into Inhumane Centers of Profit Fear Sells. So Does Irresponsibility Big Pharma Makes the Guns Can Anyone Trust “FDA Approval” for Antidepressants? Big Pharma: Follow the Money, Not the Morality You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy Psychiatric Drugs and Going Postal Youth Suicides After Rx Free Books, DVDs & More Order form Resources & Links Latest News New Informed Consent Bill for Veterans to Stem Skyrocketing Military Suicide Rate Control, Not Cure Not Sane until Proven Nuts Lucrative Crosspollination Antidepressants Put Women at Risk for Osteoporosis & Bone Fractures Penalties a Small Price to Pay for Big Pharma’s Fat Cats $267 Million Settlement against Acadia Psychiatric Hospitals Not Enough to Change Their Evil Ways Innocent CT Woman Locked Up For False Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Reno Psychiatrist’s Remedy for Patient’s Suicide Attempt Antidepressant Clinical Trials by Pharma Companies Skew Efficiency Results Big Pharma Covert Marketing Win America’s Psychiatric Hospitals: Exploitation for Profit Gustavo Kinrys Sentenced for $19 Million Insurance Fraud Florida Finally Follows WHO and UN Call for Ban of ECT on Children A.D.H.D. Executives Accused of $100 Million Adderall Fraud Michigan Psych Patients Committed Involuntarily for Medicaid Profits Contact Us Autism’s “Incurable,” So Let’s Just Go Ahead and Drug ‘Em     August 26, 2025      The word Autism initially meant “self-absorbed.” It was coined in the early 1900s by the racist  psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, who also brought us the term “schizophrenia.” He then recommended the enforced sterilization of anyone diagnosed with schizophrenia in order to avoid the racial deterioration that would evolve from these “mental and physical cripples,” as he defined those mentally ill.      Bleuler said schizophrenia was a “chronic and incurable” mental illness, thus exiling those diagnosed with it from any possibility of being helped. Hence, their mandatory sterilization. His medicalization of mental illness was new, and his eugenics theories and philosophy soon became handy justifications for the mass racial cleansing programs of the Third Reich.      Autism, too, has been similarly medicalized and, in fact, the first word that appears when Googling it is “incurable.”      Fifty years ago, only one child out of 2000 was  considered autistic. Today psychiatrists estimate that one child out of every 31 have autism, and they worry that even more have it but are not being diagnosed. One predominant theory today is that 90 percent of autism is genetically based…just like Bleuler’s schizophrenia.      That rise in the estimate of autistic children over the last fifty years is coincident with the expanded definition of the term through the five incarnations of psychiatry’s DSM. Their current  umbrella term, Autism Spectrum Disorder, was coined in DSM V, but that term merely describes symptoms, not causes, of the condition.       Consequently, the declaration of who is displaying those symptoms is highly subjective because it’s only based on personal observation. The “deficits” in social communication and interaction and the repetitive patterns of behavior which are said to define autism today have no objective

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That fact makes it tough to deliver a convincing argument if one is delivering an informed consent form to someone who’s to be prescribed antidepressants. Those severe withdrawal symptoms aren’t going to attract many volunteers to take an antidepressant. Actually, that 2019 evidence did alert the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) to give more accurate information about antidepressant withdrawal side effects and how best to slowly taper down one’s withdrawal from them. Since then Big Pharma has ramped up its own campaign to divert attention from those dangerous side effects of antidepressant withdrawal. This July, 2025 the British Science Media Center, for instance — which is supported by donations from drug companies and from the British Pharmaceutical Industry — publicized a particularly egregious example of the distortions Big Pharma is willing to render to keep hidden the truth about antidepressant withdrawal. 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