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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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We cited research based on the clinical study reports the manufactures had submitted to drug regulators to get their drugs approved for children and adolescents and other research in our letter. 4,5 I asked Emslie and the manufacturer, Eli Lilly, if they wanted to restore the trials. The fraud was grave.

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

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Similar results were found in an RCT done by Lex Wunderink, reported in 2013 in JAMA Psychiatry. The DSM manufactures illness from normal human reactions by some individuals in response to some environments. The severe short-term and long-term iatrogenic adverse effects of antipsychotic drugs are uncontroversial.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

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David Russell How the Shield Operates David Oaks, who directed MFI from its inception until 2013, told Mad in America that he started the Shield program with MFI board member Krista Erikson around 20 years ago, inspired by Amnesty International campaigns pressuring elected officials to intervene to stop human rights abuses.

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From the Dopamine Theory to the Outcomes Paradox

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China, obviously, has its own large manufacturing capacity. Returning to patient outcomes, a much cited 2013 study by Wunderink et al made the case for assessing social and occupational functioning, rather than just clinical remission of symptoms when looking at a treatment’s long-term effectiveness.

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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

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But the person prescribing them (or manufacturing them) has a different problem to solve: explaining why I should still trust them to guide me to wellness. 2013) Greenberg, Gary. Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disorder. If I continue to take the pills, I have to explain, at least to myself, why I do so.