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

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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. Pharma were quick to spot this.

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

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Dr. Healey was an expert witness on several legal actions against drug companies in which people had committed homicide or suicide while taking SSRI ADMs. Healy found that the SSRI seemed to make some of these emotionally normal employees “better than ever” but, as mentioned above, two volunteers became acutely suicidal. meprobamate) as well.

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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.