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Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides

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One would have thought that suicide is a hard endpoint and that we can believe analyses carried out by drug regulators based on the clinical study reports the manufacturers have submitted to them, but this is not so. Kbenhavn: FADLs Forlag; 2018, page 119. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2009;120:102-11. En lrebog om voksnes psykiske sygdomme.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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A 2018 paper examined FDA data on adverse drug events (ADEs) and found a rate of over 100,000 serious injuries per year. This move “transformed pharmaceutical outfits into companies who market drugs rather than companies who manufacture drugs for the market.” fold increase in the reports of serious ADEs and a 2.7-fold

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

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Bristol Myers, along with the many other manufacturing plants located in the surrounding area, helped to grow and strengthen our local economy. By the mid-2000s, because of cheaper costs to manufacture penicillin in foreign countries, the plant downsized considerably.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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ECT is a psychiatric treatment for clinical depression and other mental health conditions in which electrical impulses are passed through a persons brain to cause brief seizures (Egan, 2018). 2018; Life After ECT Inc., 2018; Life After ECT Inc., Dubey, 2018). 2018, December 7). 2018, July 23). Gardner, H.,

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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. Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disorder. 2018) Paykel, Eugene. If I continue to take the pills, I have to explain, at least to myself, why I do so.