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). between 1990 and 2019.”

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Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Hospitality Technology 129

Mad in America

JULY 18, 2024

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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Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Education 101

Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

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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Aging and mental health Hospitality Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health 145

Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

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.

Hospitality 145

Hospitality Trauma and the brain Personality disorders Pharmaceuticals 145

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

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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Sleep and mental health Legal Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 126

Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

There is no more important institution in establishment psychiatry than the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and in 2022, psychiatrist Thomas Insel, NIMH director from 2002-2015, stated in his book Healing , The idea of mental illness as a chemical imbalance has now given way to mental illnesses as connectional or brain circuit disorders.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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.

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