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

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He died in November 2011. 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. So, two years.

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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. The 12 STAR*D authors listed a collective total of 151 ties to pharmaceutical companies.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Four)

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As of mid-2011, despite over 100 papers having been published, 11 prespecified outcomes had still not been reported. Nothing in Insel’s narrative would harm psychiatry’s guild interests or pharmaceutical interests. 147 One paper stated in the abstract that suicidal ideation was seen in only 0.7% This is mendacious.

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

Mad in America

A review of four newer studies, from 2008 to 2011, estimated that there were over 400,000 drug deaths in US hospitals. Institutional corruption of pharmaceuticals and the myth of safe and effective drugs. drug deaths per 1000 patients (a 1% death rate). 10 This is a much more reliable estimate, as drug deaths have increased markedly.

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

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With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: An Interview with David Taylor and Mark Horowitz

Mad in America

In 2011, I did a PhD in the neurobiology of depression and how antidepressants work. But I do think there needs to be a balance between the massive amount of promotion that there is funded by pharmaceutical companies to start these medications, and what limited information there is on how to stop the medication.

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Should GLP-1 agonists be added to the drinking water?

Real Psychiatry

The sales of these drugs is a windfall for the pharmaceutical industry and current pricing means that other businesses that make money from rationing access to medical care and medications will be trying to prevent their use. doi: 10.1155/2011/432607. Epub 2011 Jul 6. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2004 Aug;48(8):2787-92.