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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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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). between 1990 and 2019.”

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Theodoric of Arizona: State-Sanctioned Pharma-Based Pseudo-Doctor

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DNA’s structure was discovered in the 1950s, cancer was assumed to be caused by DNA mutations, and Warburg’s metabolic insights mostly disappeared from cancer literature from about 1972 until 2002. I suspect a primary problem is the pharmaceutical industry coming up with new pills to sell.

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

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Institutional corruption of pharmaceuticals and the myth of safe and effective drugs. Cambridge: Perseus Books Group; 2002:page 269. Death by prescription: By one estimate, taking prescribed medications is the fourth leading cause of death among Americans. US News 2016; Sept 27. 4 Light DW, Lexchin J, Darrow JJ. 21 Whitaker R.

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Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient

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In 2002, I felt lucky in my role as a very junior doctor in emergency medicine. 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. But it was a challenge to return to work at all.

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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 2002, applying to the FDA to license Paxil as an antidepressant for children, GSK submitted 3 assays, one being Study 329, stating all 3 were negative. Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts. They go by the evidence.

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

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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. The psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex is fueled by the profits of Big Pharma, which have made a staggering amount of money from psychiatric drugs.