Thesis: The influence of media on society intermixed with the loose diagnostic procedures used in office visits are adding to the new craze of over prescribing psychotropic medications. America is becoming a society in which they believe a pill can fix it all or at least cover up their symptoms of a mental disorder.
Outline:
I. Diagnostic procedures
A. Doctor visits
1. Limitation of time
2. Unqualified doctors
B. Misdiagnosis
1. Quick exam
2. Misread of symptoms
II. Overwhelming number of disorders
A. Mental illness
1. Increase in diagnosis
2. Increase in adolescents and children
B. Self-medicated nation
1. Pill for everything
2. Ongoing list of illnesses
III. Media
A. Pharmaceutical companies
1. Money
2. FDA guidelines
B. Advertisement
1. Increase in spending
2. Commercials
3. Magazine ads
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