In "Is Psychiatry for Sale," a discussion paper for the Institute of 
psychiatry in London, researcher Joanna Moncrieff makes several 
conclusions ( 
http://www.critpsynet.freeuk.com/pharmaceuticalindustry.htm 2003).

"Western society is consuming ever larger quantities of prescription 
drugs and many of these are for psychiatric complaints," Moncrieff 
said. "The pharmaceutical industry is now heavily involved in the 
organization of research into psychiatric drugs and the dissemination 
of research findings. Psychiatry provides fertile ground for 
pharmaceutical industry profits because it provides opportunities for 
expanding definitions of sickness to include more and more areas of 
social and personal difficulty."

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