Psychiatry DSM DEA and 20,000 doctors

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Psychiatry, DSM Deficits And 20,000 Doctors As Victims

Alen J Salerian M.D.

March 21, 2015

  20,000 American doctors have been imprisoned by criminalization of medicine in the last 10 years.    This is a sad reality. Many blame DOJ or DEA yet it seems likely that psychiatry and its infamous diagnostic tool DSM (the diagnostic statistical manual of psychiatric disorders) are the real culprits.

   What if DSM is flawed with major adverse consequences for the public?

    To say DSM is imperfect is to dismiss the profound toxic impact of DSM for all Americans and the rest of the world who take DSM seriously.

Here is a snapshot of DSM-deficits.

I.             Does not differentiate a disease, from a disease progression or complication. This is akin to not recognizing diabetic retinopathy as a complication of diabetes.

II.          Is dismissive of eigenvalues – unobservable influences that govern universe and brain function such as air, magnetic fields electricity or stress.

III.       Is dismissive of regional brain function and pathophysiology and therefore fails to connect the dots between specific regional brain problems and psychiatric symptoms. For instance many people with addiction have observable abnormalities in their prefrontal cortex visible by functional MRI.

Conclusion

In the absence of clarity anyone from a popular television host to DEA may have odd and prejudicial theories about why people become addicts.

   To free good doctors like Dr. Paul Kelly, Dr. Paul Volkman and Dr. Linda Cheek  we must first fix DSM.

  Once we have a scientific diagnostic psychiatric tool it will be difficult for DEA to lockup doctors for phantom causes.