The Trump administration’s February executive order launching the Make America Healthy Again Commission (MAHA), which called for an investigation into why the wealthiest nation in world history has the worst health outcomes in the developed world, I and any rational person reading it would posit, was utterly reasonable in its justification and mission statement.
Via The American Presidency Project (emphasis added):
American life expectancy significantly lags behind other developed countries, with pre-COVID-19 United States life expectancy averaging 78.8 years and comparable countries averaging 82.6 years. This equates to 1.25 billion fewer life years for the United States population. Six in 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease, and four in 10 have two or more chronic diseases. An estimated one in five United States adults lives with a mental illness…
To fully address the growing health crisis in America, we must re-direct our national focus, in the public and private sectors, toward understanding and drastically lowering chronic disease rates and ending childhood chronic disease. This includes fresh thinking on nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety…
Therefore, the Commission shall:
(a) study the scope of the childhood chronic disease crisis and any potential contributing causes, including the American diet, absorption of toxic material, medical treatments, lifestyle, environmental factors, Government policies, food production techniques, electromagnetic radiation, and corporate influence or cronyism.
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Predictably, the American Psychiatric Association, heavily influenced by (and financially entangled with) the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries that rely on mass-drugging of kids, did not agree.
Instead of offering full-throated support for making America healthy again, it brought out the long knives in defense of the status quo.
Via American Psychiatric Association (emphasis added):
The safety and efficacy of traditional antidepressants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers (such as lithium and some anticonvulsants) and stimulant medications have been established through decades of rigorous research, randomized clinical trials, peer-reviewed studies, meta-analyses, national registry studies of thousands of people, post-marketing pharmacovigilance monitoring, and FDA oversight.
The February 14, 2025, Executive Order 14212, establishing the Make America Healthy Again Commission casts doubt on this research…
These drugs provide relief for many young people enabling them to participate fully in treatment, school, social activities, and family life — all key aspects of healthy development.
The APA goes on to claim that “physicians work closely with patients and families to assess the risks and benefits of psychopharmacology and monitor for potential side effects, ensuring each patient receives individualized care.”
While this kind of due diligence might exist in theory, in practice — as anyone who has experience with the psychiatry machine firsthand can attest — the modus operandi is to throw the patient on whatever drug(s) the practitioner pulls seemingly out of a hat, often after a single consultation, and see what happens.
If the patient later reports negative side effects or refuses to continue taking the drug(s), the psychiatrist will simply prescribe new ones until compliance is achieved.
Once compliance is achieved, the patient is then considered “treated” and, under schemes like the Affordable Care Act, the practitioner is financially rewarded for all of his or her good work.
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Over the last half-century, two trends have emerged simultaneously: a.) the mass-drugging of the population (including children) with powerful psychotropic drugs, and b.) the cataclysmic devastation to mental health at the population level.
Via Ethical Human Sciences and Services (emphasis added):
Over the past 50 years, there has been an astonishing increase in severe mental illness in the United States. The percentage of Americans disabled by mental illness has increased fivefold since 1955, when Thorazine—remembered today as psychiatry’s first “wonder” drug—was introduced into the market. The number of Americans disabled by mental illness has nearly doubled since 1987, when Prozac—the first in a second generation of wonder drugs for mental illness—was introduced. There are now nearly 6 million Americans disabled by mental illness, and this number increases by more than 400 people each day. A review of the scientific literature reveals that it is our drug-based paradigm of care that is fueling this epidemic. The drugs increase the likelihood that a person will become chronically ill, and induce new and more severe psychiatric symptoms in a significant percentage of patients.
Did the mass-drugging cause the explosion in mental illness or has it simply been wildly ineffective at fixing it, albeit while generating billions of dollars for pharmaceutical corporations?
Either way, neither scenario speaks well to the current approach, and it certainly shouldn’t inspire confidence in the industry that has presided over the devastation.
The Experts™ have never been less worthy of trust, and this latest diatribe from the APA reeks more of desperation to preserve an old order than genuine concern for patient welfare.
