Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Published in 2006 was the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, “ The Naturalistic Course of Major Depression in the Absence of Somatic Therapy ,” which examined depressed patients who had recovered from an initial episode of depression, then relapsed but did not take any medication following their relapse.

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, her research addresses the ethical and medical-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of academic-industry relationships. I’d like to think that maybe our 2006 study had a small role to play in that. Shelly and I weren’t able to do that in 2006 or 2012.

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Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2024

Taking the two studies together, adverse events definitely predisposing to violence against self or others leading to discontinuation occurred in 11 versus 3 children. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. Forest’s internal documents showed that company staff were aware of the problems.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold As far I am aware, there is zero mention of iatrogenesis in the OCD literature. fold increase in the reports of fatal ADEs”.

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