The Unified Theory of the Nervous System
and Behavior
Cognitive Philosophy /Brain Theory by Steven Michael Harris
If it does happen to be true that a medication treatment that creates a state of withdrawal from mental illness is required to cure these patients, and that a medication that really works needs to make all of your symptoms get worse for a period of time, then could the current medical industry be able to find such a cure?
Remember, their favorite method of discovering treatments is to try different chemicals on lab animals (in higher relative doses than in humans) and see if the symptoms of various problems improve while on the particular medication. (What if I could show that high doses of any medication always change the very nature of the way the drug functions so that the shortcuts in the search for toxicity in testing on rats with high doses is a massive distortion of the nature of how the drug actually works that gets in the way of scientific understanding? What if I could show that another dosage of any helpful drug that could lead to a cure would always be far below the levels found in the current dosages of such drugs within the "therapeutic range?")
If they get lucky they then test the medication to make sure it doesn’t cause too great an increase in cancer and other horrible diseases and to make sure it is helpful to a high enough percentage of patients (as none of these drugs works for everyone). Only the pharmaceutical and the cigarette industries are allowed to continue producing products that kill or damage such a large percentage of customers using the products as intended.
If all works out (according to these standards) they can get their designers to make a unique pill design and come up with a meaningless high-tech sounding name. Then all they have to do is put an exorbitant price on the stuff and convince the doctors to start writing prescriptions for it. (Pharmaceutical companies spend a total of about $10,000.00 a year on every doctor in the country just to advertise their product. Doctors get all kinds of nifty key chains and prescription pads, etc. from these salespeople. Some of the gifts they receive are even nicer.)
The FDA drug approval process has been made so expensive (by the influences of the big drug companies and insurance companies on the government) that only the biggest of the behemoth drug companies can afford to introduce new treatments in the hopes of big future payoffs. The expense of the approval process justifies the high costs of the drugs in the marketplace. The drug companies that finance the studies are the beneficiaries of a process that eliminates competition from individuals of genius who have no such organization with big bucks behind their ideas. (So they are forced to deal with these big organizations. Thereby this gives the pharmaceuticals further intellectual control over the language of medicine. Consider what might happen if a breakthrough medication treatment came along that had the effect of making obsolete several of the most profitable drugs in each of the biggest pharmaceutical companies - the only companies able to afford the FDA approval process for new medication treatments.)
I'm not saying there is a conspiracy or evil intention, but this system does not promote certain kinds of change in understanding or approach if such change is needed.
Could this system discover a cure if the answer comes from a very different approach and from a much better theoretical understanding of how the nervous system works?
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