Drug $$ Influences Psychiatrists' Prescriptions

"From 2000 to 2005, drug maker payments to Minnesota psychiatrists rose more than sixfold, to $1.6 million. During those same years, prescriptions of antipsychotics for children in Minnesota’s Medicaid program rose more than ninefold."

Dr. Steven E. Hyman, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health and Harvard University provost said, There’s an irony that psychiatrists ask patients to have insights into themselves, but we don’t connect the wires in our own lives about how money is affecting our profession and putting our patients at risk."

—Data taken from, "Psychiatrists, Children and Drug Industry’s Role," By Gardiner Harris, Benedict Carey and Janet Roberts, May 10, 2007