I found this article from Diccover Magazine very interesting.  It talks about irritable pigs, violent inmates and people suffering from depression and hallucinations all being "cure" with vitamin and mineral supplements.http://discovermagazine.com/2005/may/vitamin-cure/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C=

 Hello to all of you! I've been reading whatever I could find online about using Orthomolecular Medicine to treat addictions. The current mainstream treatments are clearly not effective in many cases, as made evident by the very high rates of relapse.

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I think it's 'easy' to accept orthomedicine for those of us who have gone through the medical system and been disappointed with the results, or those of us who've looked for a natural alternative, believe in natural nutrients etc. But how do you get others to use it? I've had people ask me about friends who are very sick but aren't willing to try OM. Generally their answer is 'I'm not sick', or 'how come my doctor has never heard of it..."

The new drugs that have proven effective in many cases of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) mark a major advance, in that they not only throw another shovel of dirt on the coffin of psychoanalysis, but that they also demonstrate that the very intractable obsessive compulsive symptoms can be treated by modifying brain chemistry. However, as is now well known, these drugs have some rather deplorable side effects.

Dr. Szasz seemed unimpressed by recent MRI and PET data indicating physical brain disorder in schizophrenic and manic-depressive states, apparently because the tests lack sufficient specificity. However, if schizophrenia were eventually proven to arise from some kind of neurological defect, Szasz admitted that this would not change his view of mental illness. Part of his reason appears to be that having a physical disease (which category would then include schizophrenia) should not absolve one of responsibility for one’s actions.