Are Drugs The Largest Cause Of Mental Illness?

Answer 1

To oversimplify, mental illness is probably the largest cause of psychotropic drug-taking, prescribed or self-medicating

Answer 2

Drugs don't cause mental illness. Drugs may indeed burn a persons brain up, but even that isn't mental illness but a result of drug abuse. There are those with disorders who self medicate with drugs, including alcohol of course, but the disorder is something that exists before the drug abuse begins.

Answer 3

Drugs are self medication to help soothe the pain of a person who cannot handle his or her feelings. Drugs are a symptom of the mental illness, and that is why a drug addict feels worse when the drugs are taken away.

Answer 4

Political correctness is the largest cause of mental illness. Drugs are what is needed to come up with some of the ideas they try to cram down our throats.

Answer 5

Drugs certainly accounts for many of the cases of mental illness, but some people get that way with the use of any drugs.

Answer 6

No mental illness is just that an illness. Drugs and alcohol abuse are an addiction which is a totally different category of disease.

Answer 7

The simple answer is that sin is the largest cause of mental illness. The complex answer is sin as it works itself out in the lives of people.

Answer 8

NO

Physical & mental abuse of children causes more mental illness than drugs do.

Answer 9

if that was the case thier would be 30 million people in the mental hospitol on n off

Answer 10

depends on what kind of drugs you are referring to. drugs from drugs stores are well taken care by doctors, unless you don't follow their directions.