What was especially interesting was the new study Eli Lilly was involved with in developing countries. Previously, a World Health study had discovered that the rate of recovery is higher for schizophrenics in developing nations -- what many of us might think of as "third world countries". This shocked everyone because the assumption was that the west, with its emphasis on hospitalization and medication would have had better recovery rates. The study was repeated and once more, the developing countries had the best recovery rates. A third international study confirmed that the developing world still had the best rates.

People weren't sure why this was so but there was some speculation that closer family bonds and a lack of hospitalization and long-term medication might play a significant role.

Now, here we have Eli Lilly doing their study, looking at people who are medicated in developing nations and what are they seeing? The same dismal recovery rate we see in the "industrialized world". The third world lost its substantial edge when pharmaceutical treatments became the standard treatment.