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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not require warnings for persistent sexual dysfunction, for example, and today the agency is attempting to defend itself from a lawsuit by the consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Citizen, which claims that it failed to respond to a 2018 petition to do so.

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“War Cry For Change”: Veterans Launch Campaign for Informed Consent and Safe Deprescribing at the VA

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I n 2018, still in the throes of painful withdrawal from a psychiatric drug cocktail, U.S. His independent research into psychiatric drug harm and pharmaceutical industry corruption would eventually lead him to Mad in America, where he launched the Veterans’ & Military Families Initiative in 2019.

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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. Doctors became hypnotized by the appearance of “science”, even if the literature they consulted was essentially pharmaceutical advertising. fold increase in the reports of serious ADEs and a 2.7-fold

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Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced

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The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention received significant funding from pharmaceutical companies, which understood that a suicide prevention campaign would boost sales of their drugs. There seems to be no moral bottom that stops organisations from sinking even deeper than where they already have, being corrupted by industry money.

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Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressants’ Withdrawal Effects

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Most of the studies included in the review were not designed to detect withdrawal, they involved people who had used antidepressants for a few weeks or months only and they were mostly funded by pharmaceutical companies which have little interest in conducting a thorough assessment of withdrawal.

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Deadly Prescriptions: New Study Links Antipsychotics to Life-Threatening Risks in Dementia Patients

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” To be included in the current research, service users had to receive a dementia diagnosis between January 1, 1998, and May 31, 2018, be at least 50 years old when dementia was first diagnosed, and have no prescriptions for antipsychotics in the 365 days prior to their dementia diagnosis.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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Now, as antiretroviral therapy (ART) becomes more accessible and people with HIV live longer, it is important to remember that palliative care also constitutes an important aspect of HIV care (Harding, 2018), and it is this form of interpersonal care among the residents that I attend to in this essay. and Trundle, C. Harding, R.