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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

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

Mad in America

In this way, we put everyone else who is injured by the drug in a state of legal jeopardy because companies can claim nothing like happened in our studies – it’s your anecdote against our evidence. According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays. Doctors rushed to put children on Paxil.

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Understanding Overdose Risks and Choosing the Right Addiction Therapy for Substance Abuse

Clear Behavioral Health

Many people struggling with SUD also experience job loss, legal problems, and financial distress. Drug overdose deaths in the United States, 2002-2022. Addiction often leads to strained relationships with family , friends, and partners creating a loss of trust and social withdrawal. link] Understanding the opioid overdose epidemic.

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Arrested Development: Britney Spears’ Memoir Is a Survivor’s Tale of Generational Trauma, Psychiatric Abuse, and Resilience

Mad in America

S emi-retired pop star Britney Spears is almost as famous for her 13+-year conservatorship —during which all personal, professional, and medical decisions were under legal control of her father—as for her music. He and Lynne divorced in 2002 but reunited in 2010 and recently called it quits for good.)

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. For societal and family authorities, psychiatry has another political role, an “extra-legal police function.”