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Tucker Carlson: “So you're saying that the drug companies wouldn't…”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

SSRIs and School Shootings, FDA Corruption, and Why Everyone on Anti-Depressants Is Totally Unhappy

Published August 29, 2025 | Video Starts at 1:27:32

I think doctors misdiagnose that and tell someone, this is a sign. You have a broken brain. You have schizophrenia. Time to put you on the drug. So you're saying that the drug companies wouldn't necessarily be opposed to marijuana legalization? No, no, it's. It's. It's. It's creating customers. Do you really think that? I mean, I don't know. That's really dark. Well, I don't think they. (1:27:32–1:27:38)

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“As the prescription rate for these drugs has risen, so is the suicide rate.”
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“There has been a 500% increase in the use of these drugs [antidepressants].”
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“Is it possible that if you've got 10% of the population on these drugs that there's a connection there?”
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“The increase in school shootings coincides with almost precisely coincides with this massive increase in the prescription of these drugs.”
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“More people are killing themselves and the drugs are prescribed in order to make you not kill yourself.”
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“Prozac was hailed as a wonder drug that was going to fix America's psychiatric problems. And it didn't.”
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“It changed, among other things, the practice of psychiatry completely.”
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“Privacy is the basis of freedom. No privacy, no freedom.”
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“Every time people go online, no matter what device they use, unless they're protected, big data harvesters track them.”
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“They collect personal information, and they sell it to advertisers, scammers, even political groups.”
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“ExpressVPN prevents all of that, which is a relief.”
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“If you're telling me there's a biological basis for anything, but you can't show it, then you're lying.”
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“Society's getting crappier and more dysfunctional. That makes people sad.”
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“If there's no difference between the brain of a depressed person and a happy person, then you can't really say there's a known biological…”
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“Meriwether Farms raises their cattle in the U.S. in Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado.”
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“They prepare their meat themselves in their facilities in this country.”
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“No middlemen, no outsourcing, no foreign beef sneaking through a back door.”
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“We have a great meat, the best meat here in the United States.”
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“Well, for benzodiazepines, it's like instant relief.”
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“Millions and millions of people.”
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“The food that we eat provided produced by huge food companies, Big Food in conjunction with pharma, is destroying our health, making this a…”
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“The levels of chronic disease are beyond belief.”
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“Big tech, big pharma and big food combined together to form an incredibly malevolent force, pumping you full of garbage, unhealthy food with…”
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“Regulators are cut off from the effects of the drugs that they're regulating because they're not treating patients.”
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“Clinicians, of physicians prescribing these drugs to individual people with whom they're in regular contact...don't notice that these people…”
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“The culture of medicine in this country is really kind of anti human.”
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“Depression's a medical...I'm happy to acknowledge it's a medical problem.”
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“It's more real than a serotonin imbalance.”
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“Psychiatrists in this country are unique among mental health professionals in that they can prescribe the drugs.”
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“Basically, you're castrating people.”
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“You're basically destroying someone's soul. I mean, the things that make you distinctly human.”
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“There's a huge population of SSRI unix, many of whom kill themselves out of despair caused by SSRIs.”
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“SSRIs sound like exactly the same phenomenon [as alcohol].”
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“Basically the entire weight of the American medical establishment, the regulatory bodies, some of the biggest publicly traded companies in…”
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“Doses prescribed, suicide rate, like that just seems like a pretty big picture way to measure success. If more people are killing themselves…”
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“There's been a massive increase in, well, sexual changes of all kinds. In the way that people couple, in the way, you know, literally in the…”
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“Very common drugs in this country.”
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“They solve all your problems in like four minutes.”
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“If someone's coming back to get a script filled, you know, after 15, 20 years of taking one of these drugs, like, does no one pause to say…”
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“It seems pretty obvious that it doesn't make a lot of sense [to rapidly stop medication in studies].”
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“What about amphetamines and their ADHD and the fact that like every third kid on your street is taking this stuff?”
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“Stop smoking cannabis. I thought cannabis was good for you. It's medicine.”
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“So you believe that cannabis use can lead to schizophrenia?”
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“Post Covid, there's something called telehealth and my impression is that the bar has dropped.”
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“In the state of Illinois, Governor J.B. Pritzker, who wants to run for president, Democrat, signed a bill that brings some of this into the…”
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“There are all kinds of people grandstanding about, quote, mental health, like, and they're all the same people who are pushing drugs that…”
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“People stand up. Do we have a mental health crisis in this country? Well, yes, I couldn't agree more. But those people seem totally…”
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“It's like advocates for the homeless. More of those we have, the more homeless we have.”
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“Are you confident that AI therapy will help people's mental health? Why are you laughing? Yeah, this is the new frontier. I believe it's…”
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“So anyone who says your problems are more complicated than a single pill can solve, that person is dangerous.”
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“YouTube is suppressing this show.”
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“Google has decided you should have less information rather than more.”
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