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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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2] A 2015 “State of the Art review” in the BMJ claimed that “Evidence supports specific psychotropic drugs to reduce the risk of suicide.” [3] 18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” The comment I made in 2015 on the Board of Health’s website. [40] BMJ 2015;Dec 10 and Gøtzsche PC.

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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. Copenhagen: People’s Press; 2015. Institutional corruption of pharmaceuticals and the myth of safe and effective drugs.

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Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of Speech—So, What Now?

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The reason we say “gobsmacking” is because it’s not something that Irish psychiatrists have said publicly before, although a representative for the College did say in a 2015 media article that people didn’t really believe it anyway. This is simply not the case.

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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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Pigott and colleagues published articles in 2015 and 2018 on the STAR*D trial, and each time Mad in America reviewed the articles. At that time, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) launched a public relations campaign to sell this new model to the public (an effort that was funded in large part by pharmaceutical companies).

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

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The textbook authors might have referred to his 2015 Cochrane review, which found that every single trial ever performed of stimulants in children with an ADHD diagnosis was at high risk of bias. Nothing in Insel’s narrative would harm psychiatry’s guild interests or pharmaceutical interests. This is mendacious.

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

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“ Methods that ignore information from double-zero studies or use continuity corrections should no longer be used ” ( Kuss, 2015). Including double-zero studies in meta-analysis improved performance substantively when compared to excluding them, especially when the proportion of double-zero studies was large ” ( Xu et al.,

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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It could also be tempting to undervalue the biomedical care as provided by the Sisters and think of it as ‘pharmaceutical domestication’, or to overstate the role of spirituality and prayers. To instead, recognize that the various forms of care as co-existing with each other, often unsettling and defying strict categorization.