Medicine’s Suicide Problem, Part 2 of 2, 30 Aug 2010, Forbes
By Robert Langreth and Rebecca Ruiz
(Part II of a series on why the medical system ignores suicidal patients. To read part I, GO HERE)
The multi-billion dollar mental health industry ignores suicidal patients. Nearly 35,000 Americans kill themselves each year, the vast majority with depression or other psychiatric ailments.
Yet drug companies won’t test their drugs on patients with suicidal thoughts; medical centers are skittish about studying them for fear of lawsuits; and the NIH puts little money into exploring treatments for the suicidal. As as result, doctors have little data on how best to treat the mental health patients most in need of help. (For more on extent of the problem, go here.)
http://blogs.forbes.com/robertlangreth/2010/08/31/medicines-suicide-problem-part-2/
