Medicine caught up. As much as we chiropractors criticize medicine it has come a long way in the treatment of many diseases and this one is an example. A different attitude toward the mentally ill, psychotherapy, and especially psychotropic drugs have drastically improved medicine's success with mental disorders, so much so that it caught up to and passed the successes of Clearview. Remember, we are not talking about an individual being healthy again, which is what Clearview was offering under the guise of treating mental problems. We are talking about people feeling better, acting more like the accepted standard that society has set and keeping their symptoms, in this case, aberrant behavior, under control.
Drugs can do that faster and more effectively, in most cases, than can chiropractic.
We know that medicine's success is in the treatment of disease not the restoration of health. However, the public does not know this. Here's the application to us. Medicine is getting better and better at the treatment and prevention of diseases. As much as we hate to admit it, it is true.