Is Our Society

Addicted?

To the Editor:

The front page article this past Friday on a Newtown medical doctor, Donald T. Evans, MD, being the subject of a federal civil lawsuit seeking to seize his medical office property for allegedly prescribing antidepressants, antianxiety drugs, and pain killers in violation of the (US) Controlled Substance Act barely cracks open the door for an inside view of what really goes on in the billions of dollars drug prescription medical field.

One of the major allegations by the undercover law enforcement agents was that the doctor prescribed medications, such as Valium and Prozac, without having first personally examined the patient, though it appears from the officer’s reports that the doctor did see the patients in his office and talk to them before each prescription was given out.

I’m not defending Dr Evans, but I do wish to point out that this is the standard procedure of many doctors that prescribe psychiatric medications to patients. Psychiatrists, as a branch of medical doctors in particular, prescribe millions of dollars of antidepressants yearly based solely on having talked to an individual, as Dr Evans did. Why? Because there is no physical evidence that a doctor can find that he can say definitely is the cause of mental illness. Even the highly touted “chemical imbalance in the brain” as a cause of depression is merely theoretical. There is no physical test that can be done to verify this. Any psychiatrist will tell you that.

The Citizens Commission on Human rights, sponsored by the Church of Scientology, recently released a DVD this year that shows undercover footage of psychiatrists prescribing multiple drugs to patients similar to what Dr Evans did. It is called Psychiatry: An Industry of Death. I sent a copy in February to the editor at The Newtown Bee for the paper’s research library and a copy to the Newtown Public Library. You can watch it online at cchr.org.

Hopefully this case will generate more public awareness of the magnitude of the medical drugging problem in the US and the world. With the huge amounts of money the drug companies spend on promoting their drugs and the meteoric rise of general medical practitioners prescribing psychiatric medications over the past 20 years, it poses a question of not only is it ethical, but just how addicted are we as a society. Also, are psychiatrists in danger of losing their property for their prescription practices? Maybe that is something the DEA should take a look into.

Sincerely,

Rev Greg Taylor

Minister of the Church of Scientology

8 Winslow Road, Newtown                                           March 28, 2007