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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

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In 2011, Pigott published a paper titled STAR*D: A Tale and Trail of Bias, which laid out the protocol violations in detail, and Mad in America posted the documents that he had obtained through his FOI requests. As our society embraced the use of SSRI antidepressants, disability due to affective disorders dramatically increased.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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The number of pharmaceutical products in the home today is unprecedented—and drugs, both legal and illegal, continue to be the leading cause of child poisoning. Rebecca started seeing a psychiatrist at the age of two and was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and pediatric bipolar disorder.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. For societal and family authorities, psychiatry has another political role, an “extra-legal police function.”