Psychiatric Research

Three prominent psychiatrists - Dr. Melissa Del Bello, Dr. Alan Schatzburg and Dr. Joseph Biederman - recently admitted to Congress that they had all "under-reported income they had received from drug companies".

All three are considered "Key Opinion Leaders" within the psychiatry community - indeed, Dr. Schatzburg is the president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) - and all three have been vocal advocates of using anti psychotic drugs to treat children believed to suffer from bipolar disorder.

This despite the fact that the drugs in question have been approved ONLY for adults. There is also a big question mark hanging over the legitimacy of "childhood bipolar disorder" by other mental health professionals too, some saying it is usually just "kids being kids".

Call me crazy (and I'm sure some of these professionals would) but do you think there could be ANY link between the payola these Doctors received from big pharma and the recommendations they subsequently made?

Powerful anti-psychotic drugs for children, basically being prescribed for YOUR kids directly by the drug industry.

Everyone should be having their shit gripped by that.