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The American Psychiatric Association Scam

Seeded on Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:59 AM EST
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health, today, crime, mental-health, corruption, fraud, abuse, psychiatry, pharma, apa, conflict-of-interest, wpa, graft
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One has but to take a cursory look at the APA's website to see the markets they are attracted to- school children, minorities ("Blacks"- a direct quote from their front page), the elderly, and pregnant mothers...all are shown in various states of "healthy" scenario's-- happy shiny people-- all due , supposedly, one can only speculate, to the caring, attentive, and attractive "treatment" of the APA's member/physicians.

Nevermind the fines, investigations, DOJ lawsuits and "settlements" against APA members totaling more than a BILLION US dollars during the last 5 years alone. MOSTLY DUE TO IMPROPER RELATIONSHIPS TO PHARMA COMPANIES AND FLAT OUT MEDICARE BILLING FRAUD.

The APA is nothing more than a legislative lobby and professional promotional group seeking to expand their members public recognition quotient and market share by taking/making legislation pumping up the scam and con that the human experience needs "treatment" and their friends, pharma, have just the products to sell you...and your relatives...and all your friends...anyone else including babies, toddlers, the unborn...you get the picture.

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All in all, more human beings struggling with their emotions will be classified as sick, leading to more diagnostic codes that fit their supposed “disorders” and more money billed to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers.

This unhealthy contamination of science by economics has a long tradition at the American Psychiatric Association. The whole idea of promulgating more and more diagnoses, with codes like 300.23 and 309.81 and 307.44, Recurrent, was always partly a scheme to wrench the rich tradition of understanding and healing people’s psyches into the dictates of medical model billing. It also fits neatly with the Continuing Medical Education monies routed to the APA by pharmaceutical companies whose medicines get FDA indications for particular diagnoses.

The more diagnoses, the better. Everyone gets one. Everyone gets billed. Everyone leaves with a prescription.

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Hey, why not? There’s a reality TV show about that. Why not a diagnostic code, too?

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Reply#1 - Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:23 AM EST
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Treating Depression: Is there a placebo effect? CBS NEWS 60 Min.

    Reply#2 - Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:47 PM EST
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