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

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If one reads the ADM literature, it is quite apparent that the pharmaceutical industry—with the help of psychiatry—since day one has been involved in a cover up of the dangerousness of these drugs. of the drugs reviewed had two or fewer cases of violence, which is reassuring for most pharmaceuticals. meprobamate) as well.

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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 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. Just the opposite.

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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.