A mainstream psychiatric journal, the Archives of General Psychiatry, has just published a small study that tested the use of Omega-3 fatty acids (fish oil) for mental illness in adolescents and young adults—with positive results. It’s always welcome news when mainstream medical journals, who are heavily influenced by drug companies, publish research on non-pharmaceutical remedies. It’s worth noting, however, that the study took place in Vienna; Europe has traditionally been more open than the U.S. to the use of alternative treatments.
Natural News, one of my favorite Websites for alternative-health information, features some excellent points in today’s post on this topic. Editor Mike Adams notes that the drug companies “don’t want people to know about natural remedies, nutritional cures or healing foods.” Sadly, I agree. Obviously, the pharmaceutical companies’ job is to sell drugs. Which is fine. If a company wants to sell drugs, and people want to use them, I don’t have a problem with the free market. I do have a problem with the active suppression of alternative information, which has been going on for years. And the free market isn’t really free if people are not given information to help them make choices.
The journal article will be read by thousands of American doctors, so it is a small step in the right direction. But the use of drugs is so entrenched in our society that it will take a lot more than a study to change the status quo.
Click here to read the Natural News article.
To read a summary of the psychiatry journal’s study, click here.
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