Psychiatry has become a very destructive force in society according to late Professor Thomas Szasz. He documented psychiatry's harmful influence in many areas. Some key facts that support this claim include: there has been a 234% increase in defined mental disorders since 1952, yet there are no medical tests to confirm these disorders; 41 million Americans take antidepressants fraudulently marketed as correcting a chemical imbalance despite no test for this; hundreds of US veterans have died from psychiatric drug cocktails with no accountability; and pharmaceutical companies have paid over $20 billion in fines and settlements for harm caused by psychiatric drugs.