>> They get them hooked on the pharmaceutical highway
An unfortunate part of the process.
Mentally illness is woefully mishandled from the individual to institutional, within communities, and through policy and funding.
A couple I used to know had 2 kids with the mitochondrial disease. They took their kids faithfully to the doctors for treatment and the kids were taken away, because they said the Mom had the Münchausen by proxy syndrome....and it took a heck of a legal fight, but the parents were proven to be caring parents and the kids were really sick!
So, it can happen to anyone.