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It’s no secret by now that our country is in the midst of an opioid crisis. Overdose deaths are at an all-time high, with no signs of slowing down. If the epidemic hasn’t already touched you or someone you know personally, the odds are that it will soon.
Tragically, our great state is not immune to this crisis. In fact, the statistics in south Florida are among the most alarming nationwide. Officials in this region estimate that someone overdoses every two hours, and overdose deaths in just three counties — Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach — were on track to exceed 800 last year. Manatee County has had the highest per capita death rate for the past two years.
At the federal, state and local levels, there are several education, prevention and treatment-related initiatives aimed at combating this addiction crisis. For example, recent federal policy changes are allowing psychiatrists to treat more patients with Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), one of the primary and most effective tools we have in fighting addiction.
A significant challenge we face, however, is a severe shortage of psychiatrists across our nation and here in Florida. If you’ve tried to make an appointment with a psychiatrist recently, you likely know how serious this shortage is. According to Florida’s 2015 Physician Work Force Annual Report, 14 counties in our state have no psychiatrists, and nine counties only have one. Professional physician recruiters estimate that there are about 250 vacant positions for psychiatrists in Florida. There are simply not enough doctors available to treat the number of Floridians who need critical, lifesaving help.
It is estimated that two-thirds of physicians remain within 50 miles of where they complete their residencies. Thus, filling the vacancies in our state means that we need to recruit more medical students to the field of psychiatry and train them locally.
Unfortunately, maintaining a psychiatric residency program is not easy. Behavioral health hospitals like Centerstone Hospital and Addiction Center cannot receive federal medical education funding to train up-and-coming psychiatrists like acute care hospitals receive for training physicians. This reality has contributed to the closure or scaling back of several Florida residency programs in psychiatry.
Luckily, our state legislature has stepped up to contribute funds to sustaining psychiatric residencies in our state, allowing us to train more psychiatrists to serve Floridians in need of treatment.
Centerstone is proud to have launched a psychiatric residency program three years ago, to help us further meet the needs of Florida families. This program allows us to expand our capacity to treat those in need today and shore up our state’s overall base of psychiatrists for the future.
It is estimated that a psychiatrist will serve approximately 40,000 Floridians over the course of his or her career, or roughly 800-1000 people, often in desperate need of help, each year. Through expanding our program to 16 residents, we will be able to contribute 4 new psychiatric residents and 2-3 new psychiatrists, plus support staff, to our workforce annually, who will collectively serve an additional 3,000 Floridians each year.
Given that research shows that untreated or undertreated mental health and addiction issues are the cause of significant declines in employee productivity and increases in absenteeism and unemployment, ensuring a strong psychiatric workforce is critical to the health and well-being of our residents and our economy.
We thank our legislature for their leadership and support on this issue and look forward to working with our public officials further on changing lives across our state.
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Melissa Larkin-Skinner, MA, MBA, LMHC, is interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Clinical Officer of Centerstone in Florida. Roger Johnson is Senior Vice-President of Medical Services & Managed Care at Centerstone and leads the organization’s psychiatry residency program.
46 comments
Ken Kramer
March 11, 2017 at 1:06 pm
You want to cure drug addiction by sending people to more Florida psychiatrists? How’s that working out for you? Haven’t you heard? Psychiatrists no longer do “talk therapy”. It’s all drugging! Drug, drug, drug! And you want to send those who are drug addicted to psychiatrists? Must be a money making operation! Oh I see, Melissa Larkin-Skinner runs Centerstone. This is just an advertisement!
California Kid
March 14, 2017 at 3:14 pm
Two people I know who were just “troubled” wrongly trusted local psychiatrists to help them.
– My friend’s wife was incarcerated on a 72-hour hold without notice to her family. She could not remember anything the male psychiatrist did to her that weekend.
– My amazingly smart and decent high school buddy was put on a cocktail of drugs that took away his analytical abilities to program computers.
Two lives ruined.
And we need more of these parasites?
Ken Kramer
March 11, 2017 at 3:36 pm
You want to cure drug addiction by sending people to more Florida psychiatrists? How’s that working out for you? Haven’t you heard? Psychiatrists no longer do “talk therapy”. It’s all drugging! Drug, drug, drug! And you want to send those who are drug addicted to psychiatrists? Is this just a money making operation? Oh I see, Melissa Larkin-Skinner runs Centerstone. This is just an advertisement!
R
March 13, 2017 at 11:24 am
How would a broken jaw feel? Would you rather have a drug or someone to chat with?
Harry Kaneer
March 13, 2017 at 6:00 pm
A broken jaw is a physical medical situation and pain pills would only be appropriate for a short time. Psych drugs are virtually for as long as that person has the same feeling???
That is in itself nuts. A person feels bad because they made some bad decisions and must pay the penalty of having made those decisions. The single most needed ability in life is being able to face reality drugs prevent that and that is why illegal drugs are consumed. Same for alcoholic beverages. As the Stones put it once “Mother’s little helper” to get through the day.
Psychs make drug addicts as drugs are promoted as the solution to the problems of life. Confronting life is free and not addictive.
Russell Andrews
March 13, 2017 at 8:10 pm
R – what does breaking someone’s jaw have to do with your mental health status and that inability to find quality mental health care because it doesn’t exist at any price?
Ken Kramer
March 13, 2017 at 4:34 pm
Psychiatrists don’t treat broken jaws. Please don’t try to equate psychiatrists with real doctors who actually do biological testing to determine a diagnosis.
Karin Gloeckner
March 14, 2017 at 2:30 am
I fully agree. Well expressed.
Plzs is it the Psychiatrists who say they need to handle the shortage or is it oeople demanding more of them.
I do not know for what purpose I would need a Psychiatrist.
Dan
March 13, 2017 at 5:07 pm
I have had a terrible experience with psychiatrists. I don’t trust their judgment. They are financially motivated to diagnose you, and there is no biological test to prove you are in need of their services.
V.E.
March 13, 2017 at 5:36 pm
Floridians need more psychiatrists to occupy the place of medical students ? Because Florida has “alarming statistics of substance abuse deaths”? Shame on you Florida legislature! Whoever thinks a psychiatrist can do the job of a real doctor probably thinks “pyrite (fool’s gold) is also a metal”.. :/
Tom Sherman
March 13, 2017 at 5:45 pm
By observation, psychiatric treatment has become pharmaceutical in nature. The cynic in me readily observes that every time Big Pharma comes up with a new drug the want to peddle, the APA rewrites the DSM, adding new ailments that, by happy coincidence no doubt, should be treated with those same untested, unproven new drugs. And everybody wins! Big Pharma sells its pills, using Big Shrynk as its pushers. The only losers are the people who need help and instead get drugged into an apathetic state where they no longer notice that the “cure” is worse than whatever they sought treatment for.
Advertisements for these drugs play all day long on every TV station. Drugs are touted as the solution to absolutely everything that’s wrong with absolutely everybody. Is it any wonder there’s a drug epidemic in this country?
We certainly don’t need more of these pill-pushing criminals, who have shown repeatedly that they only know how to make people and conditions worse.
JV
March 13, 2017 at 5:58 pm
“Medication Assisted Treatment” is the WRONG term – should be called “Addictive Drug “A” Swapped for Addictive Drug “B”. Psychiatrists have no interest in people living drug-free lives because for decades they have been nothing for than vending machines for the drug companies.
Willie
March 13, 2017 at 6:03 pm
Patients are victimized by scripts written by shrinks, get addicted and you want them to go back to the psychiatrist? No logical. At all.
Stan Jenkins
March 13, 2017 at 6:11 pm
Psychiatrists gave us the hoax “Chemical Imbalance in the Brain”. “Medication management” is all that a psychiatrist does these days. They have no training in listening to people – only intoxicating them.
Lori Bryenton
March 13, 2017 at 6:13 pm
It’s no wonder there’s a shortage. Who in their right mind would want to be a psychiatrist? Quacks with jobs. No science, no cures. They are in disrepute and have been held in low esteem by the medical community for a very long time.
JP Smith
March 13, 2017 at 6:17 pm
I think you should be the first state to get rid of all of them. They do no one any good. Psychotropic drugs turn slightly troubled people into murderers.
Moss
March 13, 2017 at 7:31 pm
If I had a nickel for every time a psychiatrist healed someone, I would be penniless. Psychiatrists have no clue to the causes or cures of mental maladies. They do have opinions of which drugs to use though! Antipsychotic, AntiAnxiety, AntiDepressant, Anti, Anti, Anti, which shall I choose today? Depends on which drug company is paying me the most!
Eri Meis
March 13, 2017 at 8:34 pm
Dear Ms. Melissa Larkin-Skinner, I cannot think of a time that I have thought that having more psychiatrists would alleviate the ills of man. Drugging which of course is their “modern” treatment of choice does but one thing, destroy lives. What ever happened to “confessing your sins” or having a lengthy chat with your minister? And whether you personally have it happen as I have with a friend withdrawing from an SSRI when he committed suicide, or they turn into zombie killing machines as they did at Columbine, wow! Well I would like to think you get the picture though perhaps you are on an SSRI yourself? Goodness I am disgusted with this Florida Politics piece, this seems to be a feel good article with loads of personal opinion, no observed science as real physicians utilize daily and then perhaps only to promote yourself. Shame on you. Shame, shame, shame. Let’s just hope that Florida Politics gets it’s act back to where they were prior to this piece.
Lori Lux
March 18, 2017 at 12:33 pm
Thank you Eric for your comments. I tried to convince my husband of this very thing for many years. We had an affair 19 years ago, left our respective spouses, and got married. As a result, my sons started rebelling in school, started using drugs and alcohol, and have been in trouble with the law on numerous occasions. My husband convinced me that the solution to “my” problems was to see a psychiatrist. He didn’t want to, nor did he have the time to deal with the aftermath of our choices. All the psychiatrist did was add to the insurmountable problems I was already facing by prescribing dangerously addictive drugs. My life today is in complete shambles! I live alone, my sons have abandoned me, and I am working very hard on a slow, painful taper off the drugs these psychiatrists have put me on for the last 19 years! Psychiatrists are nothing more than drug dealers, and predators in white coats! I was even raped by one of them in 2006! They destroy the lives of people who are already emotionally and spiritually bankrupt. Like you said, what I needed was to confess my sins, and ask God to heal my brokenness. I hope and pray that people everywhere will see that the answer to their problems is not drugs. I hope the practice of psychiatry becomes obsolete, and these criminals are taken off the streets!
Jada
March 13, 2017 at 9:46 pm
Why would anyone pay to see the craziest people on the planet when there are so many workable alternatives.
Psychiatry is failing. Creepy drug pushers, creating murderers, ugh.
Kenny Z
March 13, 2017 at 9:58 pm
Psychiatrists know nothing more than old ineffective theories of how the mind works and there is no unbiased scientific evidence to prove chemical imbalances in the brain. Psychiatry and dangerous psychiatric drugs should be banned as it does much more harm than good and violate the medical doctors promise to do no harm.
Terry McKean
March 14, 2017 at 12:18 am
No.. we DON’T need more psychiatrists in Florida or anywhere else on the Earth.
We the People of Earth need to completely BANISH Psychiatry from our planet.
Long story short, psychiatry has usurped and slithered it’s way into the field of medical practices.
There is NOTHING medical about psychiatry.
Psychiatry is nothing more than a fascist political control tool.
Psychiatry is basically used to force, through duress and suppression and punishment or outright murder, people to obey the command to forget about their true spiritual nature and forced to agree that people are nothing more than a bit of perishable physical matter, operated by nothing more than reflexive impulses generated by chemical reactions within the brain.
BAN psychiatry!
http://www.cchr.org
Alan Eames
March 14, 2017 at 2:19 am
“14 counties in our state have no psychiatrists, and nine counties only have one”
There’s 14 counties with the right number of psychiatrists, and nine counties that are almost there.
Psychiatry – the only medical specialty with a group devoted to its eradication.
Which crime is your psychiatrist guilty of – rape, medicaid fraud, fraudulent over-prescription of drugs, prescribing cocktails of worthless drugs to cure the side-effects of earlier drugs, prescribing anti-psychotics to children under 5 which are black-labeled for anyone under 18… The list is too long to contemplate and we haven’t even gotten to the brain destroying practices of psycho-surgery and electro-shock therapy (ECT as it’s now affectionately known).
And don’t forget to thank psychiatric drugs for the fact that suicide is now the #1 killer of service personnel, not the dangers of combat.
“The news came two weeks after the U.S. military acknowledged that suicides hit a record in 2012, outpacing combat deaths, with 349 active-duty suicides – almost one a day.” Reuters – 02/01/2013 06:56 pm ET | Updated Aug 21, 2013
Check out the side effects of the most common psychotropic drugs given to military personnel – they all have suicidality as a side effect. Think there’s any link between the prescription rates of the military and the suicide rate of military personnel?
Oh, I almost forgot… How about the fact that the majority of all random senseless killings such as Columbine, the theater in Colorado, Ft Hood, San Bernandino, etc., etc., ad nauseam, were on psych drugs or just took themselves off of their drugs. (Are there any psychiatrists who warn you that you might go psychotic and kill yourself or others when you quit taking them cold turkey?)
More psychiatrists is not the answer – how about actual medical assistance with a real physical exam to detect underlying physical causes of mental abnormalities.
Julie Greene
March 14, 2017 at 10:02 am
I doubt more professional mental health practitioners will solve a community problem. Stronger communities, love, more common sense, and listening certainly will. Psychiatrists rarely have the time to listen to people at all. They use diagnosis to wield their power. They put their patients out of work and onto disability for life. They prescribe drugs. They call their patients by fancy disease-names. They further social alienation and duality between those that are treated, and those that treat. Patients become nothing but cases and statistics, then, die tragically too young.
Melissa Butz
March 14, 2017 at 11:47 am
I’m afraid a “strong psychiatric workforce” is not the answer to an opioid crisis or untreated mental health issues. Psychiatrists may say they are the go-to people for this type of thing, but if you look at their actions, it’s just one drug after another. Bringing the crisis to people’s attention is a good thing, But let’s not be fooled into thinking the drug lords of the world are the solution. There are drug-free solutions that won’t wreak havoc on individuals and the community.
ZOE VINEYARD
March 14, 2017 at 2:18 pm
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ZOE VINEYARD
March 14, 2017 at 2:27 pm
It has always been a complete shock to me how “special interests” in government, big monied families and otherwise disseminate to say no to street drugs, while placing more and more psychiatrists and psychologists in schools and to work dispensing psychiatric drugs with the same chemical structure. How gullible of us and hypocritical of our leaders to condone this mass drugging. Anything the psychiatric industry does is harm in the name of help – we need to wake up to that truth! Here’s a telling quote: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
Karin Witt
March 14, 2017 at 3:23 pm
In the early 50’s my grandmother took my grandfather to a Psychiatric Institution to get help for his depression and he was institutionalized that day so they could help him. She got a frantic call a couple of days later where he was screaming that they were trying to kill him and to get him out of there immediately. They were electroshocking him against his will. After he came home he couldn’t remember his past and it pushed him over the edge because he was still depressed but now his memories were gone. He committed suicide. That is Psychiatry, betraying its patients by the truckload. Psychiatry is a false science and they are making a killing financially by addicting the population onto harmful psychiatric medications that have dreadful side effects. I visited a museum called Psychiatry The Industry of Death and saw the entire history of Psychiatry in that museum. Horrifying. Psychiatry in China is helping the government commit genocide on over two million people of a passive, compassionate religion called Falon Gong. The Psychiatrists label them and institutionalize them and then they harvest their organs and sell them to people who need heart transplants, liver transplants….they simply murder them. Psychiatry worked with the Nazis to effectively get rid of people the government didn’t like…gypsies, jews, mentally handicapped. Psychiatrists are the very people destroying our society in the name of help. Go to the website of Psychiatry The Industry of Death. All the videos I saw in the museum are on their website. Take a day off and do yourself a very good service and watch each video one after the other and then decide about Psychiatry being any kind of a solution. After you watch the videos I think you will want to shut them down forever.
Karin Witt
March 14, 2017 at 3:25 pm
Please publish my comment
Ron Savelo
March 14, 2017 at 4:19 pm
A shortage of psychiatrists in Florida??!!!! That’s awesome!!
How do we get rid of the remainder, is the real question.
Prescribing more opioids to handle an opioid problem is, in itself, insane.
Psychiatry is not the solution, it’s the problem!
Kenny Z
March 17, 2017 at 12:11 am
Psychiatry and Psychiatrists by their ignorance of how the mind really works and their own harmful actions of destroying lives by using ECT, and brains using Lobotomies and mind-altering dangerous psychiatric drugs, and misuse of governments to wrongly kidnap and drug innocent people… Psychiatry and Psychiatrists are Guilty of Insanity and should be jailed for murder along with their co-criminal psycho-pharmaceutical companies. Psychiatry is a black art not a science and should be abolished from planet earth asap.
Kenny Z
March 17, 2017 at 12:35 am
Well stated Ron!
Bill Goode
March 17, 2017 at 2:31 pm
I doubt the problem is a shortage of psychiatrists. It’s more likely an oversupply of psychiatrists.
Psychiatry is at the root of the drug problem. Psychiatrists put kids in schools on drugs for the innocuous behavior, such as fidgeting or chewing on their pencil. The kid becomes addicted to the drug and remains addicted through the remainder of his school career.
When the kid graduates, or leaves school for some other reason, he’s likely still addicted, but not being in school anymore, he can’t get the drug for free. So out on the street he looks for the closest chemical equivalent he can find, likely cocaine or heroin or some other chemical concoction he can find.
So he continues his addiction, all thanks to psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry that got him addicted in the first place.
Michael Manoogian
March 17, 2017 at 5:44 pm
Psychiatry would be such a laugh, such a comic relief…….if what they do to people wasn’t so SAD.
Charlie B.
March 17, 2017 at 5:47 pm
There are a lot of elderly living in Florida. Is this the next harvest field? Psychiatric practice (pun intended) has had many years to do just that. Practice. The only thing that has been perfected is the wake of dead bodies left behind and gross devastation to entire families. People addicted to psych drugs fighting for recovery of what is left of their brains. Recovery is non existent, not because of horrors of their life or a label that they can not remove from their records but because permanent damage has been placed upon them as they seek “professional” help where non exists. You don’t have to look for their help. Beware: they are seeking after YOU. Next victim please!
Jim Rego
March 17, 2017 at 6:58 pm
If you aren’t aware of the major reason for the “crisis” you describe in the first place, then I’ll see if I can help. The reason is psychiatry itself, along with the pharmaceutical industry in collusion! Did you think people just wake up one day and have an epiphany that they should be on a powerful mind-alerting drug in order to live better?
No, they have a lot of “help” coming to such “life-changing” realizations. It isn’t by spontaneous inspiration.
Adding more drug pushing psychiatrists to this existing situation is tantamount to adding more ravenous termites to a wooden structure in order to “reinforce” it.
Miles
March 17, 2017 at 7:25 pm
Psychiatry is all about “social control”.. as R.D.Lang a rather outspoken psychiatrist of the 1960’s said.. and nothing has changed. If you do something illegal, you are imprisoned, if you do something society does not like, you are handed to psychiatry where there is no Court room, no being judged by your peers. Psychiatrists are Judge and executioner… all in the name of keeping a dysfunctional society running as “business as usual” to suit those in control… remember it was only as little ago as the 1970’s that homosexuality was a psychiatric disorder… so in reference to drug overdoes and the like… fix society then people won’t resort to these forms of escapes from what is a dysfunctional reality. One of the biggest determinant of negative social outcomes is…. wait for it… inequality… well guess what, there are a whole lot of vested interests in not changing this.. so bring on the psychiatrists to control the deviant people… drug them, blame them, incarcerate them..
Harry
March 17, 2017 at 8:43 pm
It is a sad thing that enough people value money, status and life style above the truth but that is a fact. The winners write the history and so far corruption has been winning. Examples are numerous; The man that named this country was called its father by George Washington and most citizens have no idea who that is or why George felt that way.
Honesty is not a high priority for far too many. Trump was not tapped but the NSA taps everyone including Merkel and Hilary So where is the truth?
Shrinks know how to lie and are quite good at it so are reporters. The only real question these people is how big does the “pay day” have to be to spread the lies. Also MDs are for the most part nothing more than the “7-11” of the medical community. That would make shrinks more like the dumpster behind the “7-11”
Nixon was n ot a crook, Bill neither inhaled or had sex wioth Monica, WMDs were found in Iraq and we as a world were about to run out of oil. And three most famous lies in Hollywood: Loved your last movie, We’ll do lunch and I won’t c%@ #! $^%! ##$%%.
Welcome to civilization it really is not friendly to life without a huge dash of honesty.
Dan Renner
March 17, 2017 at 11:36 pm
“Chemical imbalance”??? Will someone please enlighten me on where Zoloft and other opiates are on the list of chemicals naturally occurring in the brain? Oh, they are not on that list?
Then why are they promoted as curing a ‘chemical imbalance”?
False advertising maybe?
Miles
March 18, 2017 at 4:40 pm
Simple logic defeats the nonsense about “chemical imbalance”… just ask any psychiatrist, if the reason those in Nazi concentration camps threw themselves on the electric fence was because of a chemical imbalance… then they will say “but that’s an extreme example”.. then you ask, “how do you know what is extreme and not extreme”.. the answer if at all, will be nonsense… psychiatry is nothing more than a cult that governments tolerate as psychiatry is a means of social control… nothing more..
K.Bahrenberg
March 18, 2017 at 9:26 am
Well my son lost his life in order to have psychiatric treatment.
The side affects of these medications are Suizide and a massiv form of Aggression. All of these drugs work like a prison inside the individual. Therefore they can’t control their thoughts at all anymore and can be called slaves at the best. No and I say No individual can stand long terms of slavery and so it is logical that they brake out, either through Suizid or with a big aggression attack. The control over these feelings forced by the side affects from these medications are not controllable. Any society which is not a dictatur on human minds must see that this is dangerous and not the right treatment. These treatment does not have no capability to solve the problems of some fellow man who have problems with their thinking and the control of it. 1950 the psychiatric groups divided in 2 groups. One was testing with nutritions and vitamins and peaceful inviroment and the other followed the pharmaceutical way of heavy medication. This last named group won and today we have millions of mind tortured death people on the list and a big threat for the whole society. The other group is still alive and they have good products with their patients just nobody talks about it. This treatment is called Orthomolekular medicin and is used by the other group of Psychiatrists. So if you ask why we didn’t take the other way of treatment, I make it short and say , we have been threatened not to do so . Men learns through their mistakes. I hope that this time we learn aswell cause if we don’t learn now rapidly, we mid not have a chance again . Berthold Brecht, a famous writer of Germany once said: if you don’t handle it now you mid be next. One thing I know is that you can never put a cause out and not be one day the effect from that. And one day it could be that when everybody is drugged and you need help, that there is nobody who could help you and that is than the end of the story. As far I’m concerned this serves only very few people who really don’t like their fellow men and rather see everything and everybody dead. And the reason we have such people who rather have everybody dead is they haven’t been helped correctly at one time they needed it instead they have been tortured. I’m pretty sure you don’t want a whole society of people who only want one thing and that is revenge for their torture. Think about it please.
Tina Olson
March 18, 2017 at 12:16 pm
The psychiatric industry has a lot of people, including politicians that they are the “experts” in mental help. They are looked at as “the authorities” in mental health. Listen, an authority in a area is the one that gets results. Psychiatry gets horrific results, lost lives, mass murders in school, all due to the side-effects of their panacea for mental health, Wake up and smell the coffee, they are frauds and are extremely dangerous.
Tina Olson
March 18, 2017 at 12:19 pm
CORRECTING MY GRAMMAR: The psychiatric industry has a lot of people, including politicians that they are the “experts” in mental health. They are looked at as “the authorities” in mental health. Listen, an authority in a area is the one that gets results. Psychiatry gets horrific results, lost lives, mass murders in school, all due to the side-effects of their panacea for mental health-psychotropic (mind altering ) drugs. Wake up and smell the coffee, they are frauds and are extremely dangerous. Do not give them any more power to harm. Please.
Michael Wilde
March 18, 2017 at 12:47 pm
Every illegal drug on the streets, without exception, is a Psychiatric drug. “Ice” is the freeze-dried versions of Adderall and Pervitin for intravenous use in Psychiatric hospitals. Ecstasy is the brand name for the Psychiatric drug that that been manufactured since 1912. Marijuana was registered by Psychiatry in 2008 as a Psychiatric drug, which is how it gained its fraudulent “medical” title and became “legal”, though the government is well aware 99% of the buyers are addicts. Since becoming “legal” Rehab centers have enjoyed a 450% rise in rehab for marijuana addiction. It is unlawful for any registered drug to be used off-label… but off-label use is the main use for “cannabis oil”. This week alone saw a manufacture of Weight Loss products fined millions of dollars because their weight loss drugs were found to be Psychiatric drugs which were dispensed without a prescription. A brand of bottled water branded Neurogenesis Happy Water is sold in supermarkets and contains the controlled psychiatric drug Lithium… and is sold without a prescription. Psychiatry gave up traditional Psychiatry in 1989 to sell drugs exclusively. In 1993, it was discovered by Neurologists that Antidepressants were causing Parkinson’s Disease. Last year, Neurologists for the Alzheimer’s Foundation wanted to test a new drug and weaned all volunteers off all drugs (which were mostly psychiatric drugs). When detoxed, all those symptoms we recognize as Alzheimer’s (destruction of long and short term memory and lesions on the brain, etc) disappeared, leaving the Neurology researches to believe the symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s Disease is caused by and made worse by psychiatric drugs.
Lori Lux
March 18, 2017 at 1:52 pm
Please post my previous comment. Thank you.
Derek Jettmar
March 19, 2017 at 11:35 pm
Psychiatry is the problem. You are not going to solve anything by continuing this FAKE industry.
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