TOM CRUISE'S "CRAZY" 2005 PHARMA RANT LOOKS PROPHETIC NOW
Remember when everyone mocked Tom Cruise for that Matt Lauer interview?
Turns out he was right about Big Pharma all along.
Tom Cruise (2005 Today Show):
"You're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is... There's ways of doing it so we don't end up in 'A Brave New World.'"
Nearly 20 years later, his "unhinged" warnings about overmedication, especially in children, are now mainstream medical concerns.
Top healthcare professionals echo his exact points about overprescription and questioning the chemical imbalance theory.
Cruise was ridiculed for challenging pharmaceutical industry influence on mental health treatments.
Now we have an opioid crisis, skyrocketing ADHD and autism diagnoses, and growing skepticism about psych meds' long-term effects.
His delivery was intense, but his core message about caution and education proved dead-on.
Sometimes the "crazy" people are just early.
Source: Today Show Interview 2005
