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The American Journal of Psychiatry’s Answer to MIA: A Silence that Speaks Volumes

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The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group associated with Scientology, then issued a press release urging Congress to ban this “killer drug,” and that’s when Eli Lilly, manufacturer of Prozac, conjured up a media strategy to save its drug that has proven effective ever since.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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The DSM manufactures illness from normal human reactions by some individuals in response to some environments. This same negative balance sheet of poor outcomes and serious iatrogenic effects is seen for patients diagnosed with psychosis and treated with antipsychotic drugs.

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Doctors Didn’t Warn ‘Deviant Sexual Behaviour’ was Side Effect of Restless Legs Syndrome Drug

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An internal report by drugs firm GSK , which makes the medication, reveals the manufacturer was aware of the link with impulsive behaviours in 2003. They also said despite links to such behaviours revealed in medical studies in the early 2000s, GSK did not include this warning in its medical leaflets until 2007.