"No doubt," says Jonathan Leo, associate professor of anatomy at Western University of Health Sciences, "the majority of the 28 million Americans taking an antidepressant, or similar drug, were told by a doctor that they have a genetic defect resulting in a shortage of a chemical, and that to rectify this chemical imbalance they need to take a pill."
"The basic tenet of biological psychiatry is that mental illness is an "organic" disease," he explains in the 2004 article, Biology of Mental Illness, "meaning that the patient has too much or too little of a neurotransmitter, too much or too little of a receptor, or an overactive or underactive neuronal circuit," he wrote.
"Never has a theory with so little scientific evidence been so well accepted by the American public," Mr Leo notes, "three of the seven most commonly prescribed drugs are now mood elevators."
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Evelyn Pringle
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