Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill

Do you need to be careful of prescription psychoactive medications that practitioners may try to prescribe for your child on the spectrum? Betsy interviews the award-winning author of the new book entitled “Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill”, investigative reporter Kelly Patricia O'Meara. During her six-year tenure at The Washington Times' Insight magazine, Kelly Patricia O'Meara wrote a series of articles examining the prescription drug industry and the connection between prescription psychiatric drugs and the increasing number of school shootings. She focused heavily on the lack of science behind the psychiatric diagnoses for which the drugs are prescribed, and the adverse reactions linked to antidepressants.