Nine Million Time-Bombs

In a television interview Jeff Griffin, the Executive Director for the Western U.S. of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, talks about some of the problems that our society faces in connection with the expanding power of the psychiatric industry.

This interview shares the common problem of nearly all critics of psychiatry: the extreme persuasion and bitterness. They lash out the abuses of psychiatry, and call it all kinds of bad names. It is perhaps not surprising. Anyone who spent some time uncovering psychiatry's dark secrets would probably become bitter in the process; but while their words may be correct, their very tone of voice and style of speech stand in the way of accepting their arguments. The listener can't help thinking that maybe all this is just another political game.

Nevertheless, Mr. Griffin, who has been fighting psychiatry for many years, mentions some extremely important points in this interview. One of them is the 9 million children who currently take one or more psychotropic medication.

He calls them "9 million time-bombs" and explains that in nearly every single case of school shooting or other mass-murders made by children one or another psychiatric drug was involved. The interview was apparently filmed before the Virginia Tech; I happened to watch the news on the day when it happened, and the reporters mentioned several times that the guy had been taking psychiatric drugs, although this information was not mentioned again in the subsequent media coverage.

We have never before given so much drugs to children as during the last decade; the drugs that are capable of causing restlessness and homicidal ideas, particularly in the withdrawal period. We have yet to find out what these kids will be like when they grow up. With the economic crisis that the US and its health-care system is facing, many of the people taking one or more psychotropic drugs will be forced to go into withdrawal. Jeff Griffin is right to be concerned.