Editor’s note: This is in response to the column “Look closer at what Big Pharma’s pushing,” published in Tuesday’s Daily Lobo. The column urges caution in using pharmaceuticals unless absolutely necessary and criticizes the negative role of prescription drugs, which the author contends have an increasing presence in our lives.
Editor,
I am very impressed with this concerned citizen Jason Darensburg and his column “Look closer at what Big Pharma’s pushing.” It took some courage to speak up against this multibillion-dollar industry called “psychiatry.” We need more people like him to speak up.
There is overwhelming evidence that psychiatric drugs cause violence. School shootings and school-related acts of violence committed by individuals under the influence of such drugs have resulted in 162 wounded and 72 killed. And those are only the cases in which the information has been made public.
I want to alert college students, children and veterans to a fact about antidepressants: They are so potentially dangerous that the FDA has issued its strongest “black box” warning, alerting the public that these drugs can cause suicidal thoughts and action.
There is abundant evidence that real physical illness, with real pathology, can seriously affect an individual’s mental state and behavior. All underlying untreated physical conditions should be ruled out. Go to a real doctor and have them check your dietary history and current eating patterns. Let them examine you for signs of nutritional deficiencies as part of the medical examination and, if indicated, perform selective evaluative laboratory testing.
Don’t run to the nearest psychiatrist. You likely won’t receive any blood tests, etc., but be put on a highly dangerous and addictive psychotropic drug.
Tina Olson
Executive director of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights NM Chapter
