Mad in America
DECEMBER 1, 2023
As a last resort, I underwent experimental psychosurgery in September 2001 (bilateral anterior cingulotomy). Ironically, in 2001, having survived through that first nightmare experience as a psychiatric patient, I considered changing my career path to psychiatry because I wanted to help people like me.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
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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Mad in America
JANUARY 9, 2024
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. Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts. They go by the evidence.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
However, on August 6, 2001, a fire tore through a makeshift faith-based mental home—a type of paid accommodation prevalent in Erwadi—where families could stay with their mentally ill relatives. Depression and anxiety were proof that you had a mind deep and dark enough to need pharmaceuticals to keep the demons at bay.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 25, 2023
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. I was 15 years old and my father had suddenly passed away.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 6, 2023
In June 2001, the legal team of Andy Vickery and Jim Fitzgerald from Cheyenne, Wyoming were successful at getting a precedent setting $6.4 million verdict against GSK in the 2001 Tobin case. Although this was a medical malpractice case, Andy Vickery is no stranger to setting legal precedents.
Mad in America
JANUARY 9, 2025
The cleverest example is the iconic 2001 Zoloft commercial: It showed a cute, always-sad cartoon blob, and images of chemicals moving from one nerve to another, as a narrator proclaims: Depression is a serious medical condition caused by a chemical imbalance. These powerful tools enable it to covertly manipulate the way we think and feel.
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