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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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In Alan Schwarzs article, he mentioned that from 2007 to 2011, prescriptions for Adderall increased by 250%from 14 million prescriptions to significantly more. I dont know this for a fact, but Id bet a lot of money goes into The New York Times from pharmaceutical advertising. That first doctor had areputation. Thatsmost of the ads now.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 4)

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One pharmaceutical journal berated some managed care companies for not paying for Viagra for drug-induced sexual dysfunction. However, I doubt that a pharmaceutical company would market Viagra as a treatment for depression; to do so one would have to diagnose depression as caused by an “insufficient blood supply to the genitals”!

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” The Lancet is the extended marketing arm of the pharmaceutical industry, [21] just like the New England Journal of Medicine , which has also published articles denying that depression pills cause suicide. [22] Ugeskr Læger 2007;June 8. [40] 21] Smith R.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

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I n a previous chapter I reported data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11c that suicides for the years 2007 to 2017 increased by 30% while the teen rate (ages 10 to 24) increased by 56%! of the drugs reviewed had two or fewer cases of violence, which is reassuring for most pharmaceuticals.

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

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2007 ) to justify his criticism of our inclusion of zero event trials, references which are now up to 20 years old. Ghaemi, in contrast, appears to use a post-hoc selection strategy: selecting studies and statistical methods which lead to results that confirm his preconceptions, and then finding reasons for justification.

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

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However, in the summer of 1990, the Prozac story started to come undone, and it was then that the pharmaceutical industry, in concert with its thought leaders from academic psychiatry, plotted the strategy that has successfully cowed the mainstream media ever since.

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

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However, rather than people becoming enraged and politically engaged to change carcinogenic environments, an extremely powerful medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex has controlled the societal narrative to focus—not on eliminating environmental-societal causes of cancer—but on expensive cancer treatments. between 1990 and 2019.”