Just when you thought the unscrupulous banking practices couldn’t get any lower, someone comes along and does what America does best….skirt personal responsibility by blaming a problem on an entity. In this case the drug companies.
Did Anti-Depressants Cause the Mortgage Crisis?
by Adam Hanft
“…There are many who argue that anti-depressants got to #1 status because Big Pharma has spent hundreds of millions to create a nation of psychological hypochondriacs using canny marketing to blur the difference between serious depressive states and merely painful, Billie Holiday-like blues.
But what exactly would turn psychotropic drugs like Prozac and Paxil and Zoloft into a subplot in the subprime mess? It’s the biochemistry. Those drugs are SSRIs—serotonin uptake inhibitors—and they spin their mood magic by elevating levels of serotonin in the brain. And serotonin is a neurotransmitter associated with behaviors that might contribute to the temptation of borrowing $501,000 on a $500,000 house…”
DISGUSTING!!
