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Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention

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But Ghaemi wants to claim that lithium is special—that it does more than target symptom mechanisms, it modifies the disease process that underpins bipolar disorder. 2007 ) to justify his criticism of our inclusion of zero event trials, references which are now up to 20 years old. Ghaemi cites Sweeting et al.

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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. Tanne, J Financial ties common between US medical schools and drug companies BMJ 2007, Oct 20;335(7624):793. Its debilitating symptoms will make their lives a constant battle. Silverman, E What money?

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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. million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.