Mad in America
JANUARY 4, 2025
In 2006, the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) published four reports on STAR*D outcomes. Without these imaginary remissions, the reported remission rate in the November 2006 paper would have been around 50%. Nearly 70% of real-world patients could expect to become symptom free with this use of antidepressants.
Mad in America
MARCH 5, 2025
Siem: Around 2005 or 2006? 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. I told Richard, Look, this stuff isnt good for you.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 28, 2023
O n September 9, Mad in America set up a petition on change.org urging the American Journal of Psychiatry to retract its 2006 article that told of a 67% remission rate in the STAR*D trial. At that time, we put up a petition on change.org urging that the Am J of Psychiatry retract the 2006 article. Mad in America, a U.S.
Mad in America
MARCH 20, 2024
When medical historians say, “This particular person got an appreciable amount of money from a pharmaceutical company, in this case, Merck and Parke-Davis,” we want to know how much money it is. I’d like to think that maybe our 2006 study had a small role to play in that. He was also a major user for an extended period.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention received significant funding from pharmaceutical companies, which understood that a suicide prevention campaign would boost sales of their drugs. If the suicide rates had remained stable at the rate they were in 2006, there would have been 10,000 to 15,000 fewer suicides among US veterans.
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 Such optimism would be disappointed by dwindling pharmaceutical progress in the later half of the century.
Mad in America
JUNE 13, 2024
When my book was published in 2006, I was doing ok, but it didn’t last long. Medical research is largely funded by the pharmaceutical industry, papers ghostwritten by the pharmaceutical industry and influencers paid by the pharmaceutical industry. He convinced me that this was a sign that the depression was returning.
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