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

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In 2004, the evidence that pretty well the entire pediatric antidepressant literature was fake, with GSK sued for fraud, caused Cochrane problems. Since 2004, they have been telling us to report adverse effects to the FDA and not to them. We saw regulators in a realistic light and did not think bureaucrats could keep us safe.

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt

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He went to his GP, who diagnosed him with “anxiety disorder” on top of his bipolar diagnosis and prescribed Xanax. A few months later, I was glad we had left this psychiatrist, because he had even falsely written in Matt’s records that I had a history of anxiety disorder. Imagine that?!

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

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Furberg 12 studied under the Freedom of Information Act the question of prescription drugs and violent behavior by reviewing the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) from the years 2004 to 2009. meprobamate) as well. With such frequent and severe adverse TD-inducing side effects, how can one justify the use of these medications?

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. This process of medicalisation is now all too often a default response to distress and happens on a large scale.