http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22266-psychiatry-now-admits-its-been-wrong-in-big-ways-but-can-it-change
I've often tried to explain the corporate profits driving the "medical model" of addiction. Although I was lectured my first day in the field that poverty was irrelevant to the "disease" of addiction, it took me a long time to see through the impressive pseudo-science from a few "great" and wealthy academics. It functions much like the dichotomy used when the Democrats point at the absurd Republicans. 'They're so crazy, believe our highly profitable "compassionate" lies.' In the case of substance abuse, our society exists in a swirl of "good addictions and bad addictions" Instead of even considering the unnatural pathological systems in our society that keep people sick and drowning in addictive constructs, we manufacture a disease and a highly profitable pill to coerce bad people with bad addictions. As I finally recognized, substance abuse and uncontrolled cravings are often a very natural result for people living in an immensely sick society! It's poverty, trauma, child neglect, spiritual crises, chronic stress, etc. which causes individuals trouble managing the network of good and bad addictions, as defined by the plutocrats. (As the dharma teaches us, it's desire, and hence, materialism which is the cause of suffering.) It's a lie to point at bad genes, and it's a lie to treat substance abuse exclusively with pills. And those lies allow "denial" of the true etiology of destructive behaviors, as well as the refusal to investigate or change the underlying constructs that guarantee sickness across society. I'm glad to see some honesty finally break out. Will folks open their eyes and try to see the hard truths rather than the pretty profitable lies? ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
