This excellent News-Medical article review speaks the much-needed truth that, indeed, “little attention has been paid to iatrogenic disorders in psychiatry,” as Dr. Fava and Dr. Rafanelli correctly conclude that current conceptual models ignore iatrogenic forms of psychopathology. Accordingly, it is not surprising that the World Health Organization predicts that mental illness will be the leading disease burden globally by 2030. This is especially expected given the clear mounting evidence of an international pandemic in psychiatric iatrogenesis as proven in my ethics teaching and the best-in-class expert witness references in my 5/2/18 letter to the editor of the British Medical Journal, and my 3/1/18 and 8/16/18 Medicald.gov public comments (which are set in the context of two real-life current-events public health policy examples and) available for free at the following three URL addresses:

  https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j1058/rr-1

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To further emphasize the crucial need for much more research in this area, Robert Whitaker and Derek Blumke in there excellent 11/10/19 report “Screening + Drug Treatment = Increase in Veteran Suicides,” make the sad and astounding finding that the increase in American veteran suicides associated with the increase in VA marketing of and use of psychiatric standards of care, clearly accounts for a greater number of U.S. veteran deaths than all U.S. combat deaths since 9/11:

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In Biblical Love for All Patients and Physicians and Medical Researchers Everywhere,

Thomas Steven Roth, MBA, MD
Religious and Scientific Refugee from the Clinical Practice of Psychiatric Standards of Care
P.O. Box 24211
Louisville, KY 40224
May 1, 2020