Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Stephan: Read this then ask yourself: are we over-medicated as a society? Can any nation be considered healthy when one quarter of its women can't get through their lives without medication?
Click through to see the very revealing charts.
More than one in four American women took at least one drug for conditions like anxiety and depression last year, according to an analysis of prescription data.
The report, by pharmacy benefits manager Medco Health Solutions Inc, found the use of drugs for psychiatric and behavioral disorders in all adults rose 22per cent from 2001.
* Women more likely than men to take antipsychotic drugs, according to new report
* Most often prescribed to females over 45
* Prescriptions for psychiatric problems in all adults have risen 22% since 2001
* Usage has quadrupled among men aged between 20 and 64 over the last decade
The medications are most often prescribed to women aged 45 and older, but their use among men and in younger adults climbed sharply.
On the rise: A bar graph showing the increase in the number of Americans using mental health medication between 2001 and 2010. There are considerably more women doing so than men
On the rise: A bar graph showing the increase in the number of Americans using mental health medication between 2001 and 2010. There are considerably more women doing so than […]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Stephan: For the second time this year and, I think, for the fifth time in 12 years, I have to publish a correction. Yesterday I published a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln. I have seen this quote cited over the years in numerous sources. However, it does not appear to be genuine. Instead it is the historian's nightmare, something incorrect cannonized by repetition.
I want to thank all my readers who contacted me about this -- several of whom posted their comments directly. I care very deeply about the accuracy of SR, and appreciate your checking things. Not least because it shows me my readers also care about facts, and actually read what I write.
Claim: Abraham Lincoln issued a prophetic warning about the tyranny of capitalism.
FALSE
Abraham Lincoln said:
As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.
Origins: The above quote, attributed to President Abraham Lincoln, has been periodically dusted off and presented to the public as a prophetic warning about the destruction of America through the usurpation of power and concentration of wealth by capitalist tyrants for over a century now, undergoing a renewed burst of popularity whenever wartime exigencies stir public debate over governmental policies.
These words did not originate with Abraham Lincoln, however – they appear in none of his Lincoln collected writings or speeches, and they did not surface until more than twenty years after his death (and were immediately denounced as a […]
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
ERIC W. DOLAN, - The Raw Story
Stephan: There is an inherent conservatism in the American public today, as this Gallup poll reveals. The American population, as much as American politicians, are complicit in our downward spiral. Until we have millions in the streets nothing is going to change.
The majority of Americans are ambivalent towards the ongoing ‘Occupy Wall Street
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
WILLIAM K. BLACK, - New Economic Perspectives
Stephan: Little by little we are beginning to understand what went wrong. I just wish we could go so far as to fix it. Sadly, so great is the control of the uber-rich over policy development that it isn't happening, and probably won't happen. Therefore it will happen again. Probably quite soon.
Bill Black is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One and an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He spent years working on regulatory policy and fraud prevention as Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention, Litigation Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and Deputy Director of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement, among other positions.
One of the most revealing things about this crisis is the unwillingness to investigate whether ‘accounting control fraud
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Stephan: Even in the mid-nineteenth century Lincoln could see it coming, just as Dwight Eisenhower saw it in the mid-twentieth: The rise of the Fascist corporatocracy.
Thanks to Larry Dossey, MD.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and cause me to tremble for safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic destroyed.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Col. William F. Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864
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