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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

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However, the creation of a “Prozac Nation” might not have been successful without the help of the NIMH, which launched an “educational campaign” at that time designed to change the public’s understanding of depression. Without that campaign, the “disease model” of depression may never have taken hold in the public mind.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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They claim the study found the drugs to be effective treatments for depression, leading to remission in 67% of patients, but this is false; that finding was inflated by various types of research misconduct , even including imaginary remission rates from people who dropped out of the study.