Ramaswamy Touts “Faith” Not Drugs For Mentally Ill

“Violent crime has risen over precisely the period we have shuttered these psychiatric institutions. And you know what? The number one psychiatric institution today is jail. It’s prison. And they don’t do a very good job.

“And now you then get the calls to clear the jails or to have commuting of sentences or shortening of sentences. People leave those jails in a worse psychiatric condition, often, than when they even entered.

“I don’t think I want to be pumping psychiatric institutions with pharmaceuticals into people. Faith-based approaches – there are better ways to do this.

“It was none other than large pharmaceutical companies that had developed antipsychotics and other forms of antidepressants.” – Vivek Ramaswamy, whose hedge fund heavily invested in pharma companies.