This is coming from way way out in left field, but maybe philosophy, introspective self-examination, and morality would help people with psychological problems more than pills. Just a thought. From Ben Bartee at armageddonprose.substack.com:
When Trump announced the formation of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission via executive order in February, the parameters were so utterly reasonable that even the most hardened pharma skeptic might have a hard time imagining on what grounds the various tentacles of the biomedical establishment might make their characteristically histrionic objections.
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.”
There is no legitimate counterargument against the gist of the executive order posits, which is that the medical/pharmaceutical industry, which sucks trillions of dollars a year out of the economy, and the pseudoscientific field of psychiatry in particular, has objectively failed to achieve improvements in Americans’ health.
