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Podcast: American Thought Leaders
Episode: The Mental Health Industry Is Incentivized to Keep Patients Medicated: Cooper Davis
Description: At a young age, Cooper Davis was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed a low dose of Ritalin, which helped his ability to focus but caused unwanted side effects. To counteract them, he was prescribed other medications. By age 30, Davis was dependent on six different psychiatric drugs at any given time, what’s commonly known in the mental health community as a “prescription cascade.”“It’s complicated enough that the scientific consensus will generally say, ‘We don’t quite understand why these drugs work,’” says Davis.Today, he is executive director of the Inner Compass Initiative, where he addresses...