Why America Is Overmedicated — And What Patients Aren’t Told - Alan Cassels (Video)
This is a 14 January 2026 published video from The Epoch Times and hosted by Senior Editor Jan Jekielek and his reporting team.
“We get a lot of inappropriate over-prescribing for almost everything,” argues drug policy researcher and journalist Alan Cassels.
Cassels is the co-author of “Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients.”
For Cassels, it was one disease in particular—osteoporosis—that changed his entire view of medicine. Based on changing definitions of the disease, large swaths of Americans could suddenly be declared sick and in urgent need of drug treatment. They “medicalized normal aging of the basically entire female population. Overnight,” he argues.
In our interview we discuss the influence of the pharmaceutical industry over diagnoses and prescriptions and how the criteria for many diseases can be expanded arbitrarily.
“When you look closely at the quality of prescribing, a lot of times, the decision making is not really driven by evidence. It’s driven mostly by … marketing, biases, influence from thought leaders and influence from guidelines, medical guidelines themselves, which are often appallingly biased,” he says.
Many doctors, Cassels says, know little about adverse effects of the many drugs they prescribe their patients.
We also dive into the connection between psychiatric drug prescriptions and violence, how psychiatry labels normal behaviors as abnormal, and how exaggerated statistics are used to sell theories of disease and drug treatments.
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