Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
T he harm caused by the medical profession is called iatrogenesis , and in 1975, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) published Medical Nemesis (republished titled Limits to Medicine ) in which he discussed the clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis of modern medicine. Antidepressants? John’s wort-treated patients).
Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.
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Mad in America
DECEMBER 1, 2023
The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT. I was discharged from hospital and relieved of compulsory treatment. In 2002, I felt lucky in my role as a very junior doctor in emergency medicine.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 23, 2023
639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. 209,640 Lundbeck patented the active half of citalopram (Celexa or Cipramil) before the patent ran out and called the rejuvenated drug escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro), which it launched in 2002.
Mad in America
JANUARY 20, 2024
For Watson, the focus on schizophrenia came when his son experienced a crisis at age 15, including a suicide attempt and a runaway scare, along with being diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized for six months. Torrey writes that there have been “at least” 32 linkage analysis studies of schizophrenia and 40 of bipolar disorder.
Mad in America
JUNE 6, 2024
In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. Before examining these other reasons, a look at two high-profile examples of this exuberance. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
In 2002, the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ) published a study comparing depression remission outcomes of a placebo to the herb St. Later in 2002, a leading researcher of the placebo effect, Irving Kirsch, examined 47 drug company studies on various antidepressants. John’s wort and to Zoloft.
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