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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. This was the governing public narrative when the STAR*D trial was conducted.

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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 2005, Iain Chalmers, the head of Cochrane, testified that ghostwriting is rare and only happens in peripheral journals who publish the dodgy stuff. Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts. They go by the evidence.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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But now they often say Since they have bipolar disorder, theyll never be able to manage their emotions or achieve any stability. Golec, J, Vernon, J European Pharmaceutical Price Regulation, Firm Profitability, and R & D Spending Working Paper 12676, National Bureau of Economic Research, Nov 2006. 2008 Sep 25;2;26.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex.