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

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Siem: The New York Times published a major article on February 2, 2013, detailing Richards story. Ill never forget when he called me and said, “Ive never done this with anyone Ive written about, but I have to tell youyour sons story is being released tomorrow, February 2, 2013. He was totally different. Thatsmost of the ads now.

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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] London: Radcliffe Publishing; 2013. [36]

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

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The main evidence cited to support this belief came from a meta-analysis published in 2013, which had excluded a large proportion of trials due to the fact that no suicides had occurred in them ( Cipriani et al, 2013 ). If lithium does prevent suicide, a preventive effect on suicide attempts should be seen, too, and it is not.

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

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In 2013, I estimated that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, 1 and in 2015, that psychiatric drugs alone are also the third leading cause of death. London: Radcliffe Publishing; 2013. Institutional corruption of pharmaceuticals and the myth of safe and effective drugs.

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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 our 2015 book Psychiatry Under the Influence , Lisa Cosgrove and I wrote about the STAR*D scandal in depth, as it served as an example of the institutional corruption in psychiatry due to pharmaceutical interests and psychiatrys own guild interests. The 12 STAR*D authors listed a collective total of 151 ties to pharmaceutical companies.

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Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient

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Today, they are the direct beneficiaries of the pharmaceutical industry who know the harms that the drugs are doing to patients; some of them may be psychiatrists, doctors, or nurses who refuse to open their eyes when they witness their patients seriously ill from severe adverse effects. Fear secured my compliance.

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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 severe short-term and long-term iatrogenic adverse effects of antipsychotic drugs are uncontroversial. In 2023, BMJ Oncology reported , “Global incidence of early-onset cancer increased by 79.1% between 1990 and 2019.”