"Casino owners love customers on benzodiazepines; they don't get upset when they lose and keep gambling" (p. 227).
"Until it lost its patent, the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson doled out LEGO blocks stamped with the word 'Risperdal' for the waiting rooms of child psychiatrists. Children from low-income families are four times as likely as the privately insured to receive antipsychotic medicines. In one year alone Texas Medicaid spent $96 million on antipsychotic drugs for teenagers and children--including three unidentified infants who were given the drugs before their first birthdays" (p. 228).
In Bessel van der Kolk's "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma"
