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		<title>Rant: Pharmacology&#8217;s True Colours</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ever-growing number of supposed mental disorders are being treated with expensive drugs. But why is the pharma industry indifferent to the poly pill?
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<p>An article on the Beeb&#8217;s website entitled: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7967851.stm" title="BBC Article (opens in new window)" target="_blank">Life: A medical condition</a> has addressed the growing trend of psychoanalysts wanting to categorize all aspects of human behaviour as some form of abnormality.</p>
<p>New &#8220;disorders&#8221; (which in that annoyingly American style always seem to have a 3-letter acronym) are being &#8220;identified&#8221; on a daily basis by the psychobabble brigade, all of whom are keen to make their mark in the American Psychiatric Association &#8216;bible&#8217; and then reap the material rewards from the book deals, lecture circuit tours, overpriced consulting and other pseudo-academic bollocks that invariably follows.</p>
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