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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

Mad in America

It was a fun thing to do, and we launched it in the British Medical Journal on April 1 st , 2006. A recent real-life example of this kind of advertising was for binge-eating disorder , and Monica Seles was the celebrity they used. A rational medical system would organize the education of their doctors differently.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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At a cost of 35 million dollars, NIMH’s STAR*D study, which was published in 2006 , is the most extensive and expensive study ever conducted to determine the effectiveness of drug treatment for depression. The same falsehoods are taught in continuing education programs to previously credentialed psychiatrists.