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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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Schatzberg has served as a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corcept Therapeutics, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals, Organon, ParkeDavis, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. In 2001, a GSK paroxetine Assay in depressed children (Study 329), was published in the best journal in child psychopharmacology, trumpeting paroxetine’s benefits and safety. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient. They go by the evidence.

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May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem

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Siem: This was in 2001 and the timing is important for context as the world was a little different then. So I just thought that maybe I needed to change pharmaceuticals, not change who I was and my perspective. He’s more educated than them on the subject at this point. I was 15 years old and my father had suddenly passed away.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children. So their educations, and chances for good careers, will suffer. But theres a paradox here: The U.S. 2008 Sep 25;2;26.

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You Have the Legal Right to Informed Consent

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Informed Consent Informed consent is the process in which a doctor educates a patient about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of a given procedure or intervention, including prescription drugs. In June 2001, the legal team of Andy Vickery and Jim Fitzgerald from Cheyenne, Wyoming were successful at getting a precedent setting $6.4

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