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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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It seemed then that pharmaceutical companies had discovered scientific, targeted treatments for depression, free of side effects. In 2004, in response to Kim Witczak and other surviving families, the FDA began requiring SSRI drugmakers to add a Box Warning on the packaging of all SSRI antidepressants related to suicide risk.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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He started college in 2004, so this would have been 2005 or 2006. I dont know this for a fact, but Id bet a lot of money goes into The New York Times from pharmaceutical advertising. At the time, I didnt know much about it, but I knew it wasnt good. We were coming off the popularity of Ritalin, and now it was Adderall.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

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In our 2015 book Psychiatry Under the Influence , Lisa Cosgrove and I wrote about the STAR*D scandal in depth, as it served as an example of the institutional corruption in psychiatry due to pharmaceutical interests and psychiatrys own guild interests. The 12 STAR*D authors listed a collective total of 151 ties to pharmaceutical companies.

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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.

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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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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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The 2004 national South Africa Stress and Health study , the first large-scale research project of its kind in the country, found the lifetime prevalence of any DSM mental health diagnosis to be 30.3%. Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer.

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Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention

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2004) and Diamond et al. Doctors are no longer the only gatekeepers of medical knowledge and although this opens people up to the nefarious influence of the pharmaceutical industry or quackery, it also creates opportunities for people to inform themselves and each other outside of the medical system. Ghaemi cites Sweeting et al.