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

Mad in America

Dhar: Is this what inspired you to create the “documentary” for ‘Motivational Deficiency Disorder’ and the April Fool piece in BMJ along with it? It was a fun thing to do, and we launched it in the British Medical Journal on April 1 st , 2006. We investigated social anxiety disorder. What was that about?

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

Mad in America

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. We showed how STAR*D’s authors had manipulated the data to manufacture fraudulent results.