Mad in America
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
In 2016, the US Department of Veterans published a study that showed that, whether the veterans had received a psychiatric diagnosis or not, there were many more suicides among those who were treated. An analysis of 191 countries also found that countries with better psychiatric services experienced higher suicide rates.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
A comprehensive review published in 2016 —the title of which is a warning—found a wide variety of adverse side effects associated with paroxetine use, among them an increased risk for breast cancer and an association with birth defects in babies born to mothers on the drug. It did not look good. That looked worse.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
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] Psykiatrisk Tidsskrift 2016;Nov 20. [31]
Mad in America
JUNE 13, 2024
By 2016, I had seriously started to doubt that suffering awful side effects from taking off-licence high doses of two antidepressants was worth my while. Medical research is largely funded by the pharmaceutical industry, papers ghostwritten by the pharmaceutical industry and influencers paid by the pharmaceutical industry.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 30, 2023
The disappointing CATIE and STAR*D studies T he two sane authors of the first chapter of the 1065-page textbook noted that naturalistic studies—which they did not reference but mentioned by name, CATIE, STAR*D, and Storebø 2016—have shown smaller effects than those the drug companies have advertised. This is mendacious.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Schatzberg has served as a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corcept Therapeutics, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals, Organon, ParkeDavis, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst.
Mad in America
JANUARY 24, 2024
In a 2016 study published in Nature , researchers proposed some potential biological origins of schizophrenia, receiving widespread coverage with headlines indicating significant breakthroughs in understanding the condition.
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