Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2024

The pump, manufactured by device maker Medtronic, connected plastic tubing to an insulin reservoir, which Gautney set to release doses of the vital hormone over the course of the day. ‘There’s a big hole left where he was,’ said Gautney’s daughter, Carla Wiggins, who is suing the manufacturer.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

DOOCE: A Case Study on the Failure of Psychiatry A selfie of mommy blogger Heather Armstrong in 2019 (Facebook) In May 2023, J.A. The tragedy of Heather Armstrong’s death is that no one really knows why she took her own life, but I believe I do, and the drug manufacturers agree with me.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Childhood trauma Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 144

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

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. 1 In 2019, independent researchers reanalysed the FDA data and included harms occurring during followup. Barbui et al.s

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Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

between 1990 and 2019.” The DSM manufactures illness from normal human reactions by some individuals in response to some environments. Take one issue—the increase in cancer among young people. In 2023, BMJ Oncology reported , “Global incidence of early-onset cancer increased by 79.1%

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Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Hospitality Technology 139

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Dubey, 2018; Egan, 2018; Ejaredar & Hagen, 2014; Farnsworth, 2016; Grant, 2006; Greer, 2016; Halle & Nelson, 2019; Harris, 2023; Larkin, 2022; Life After ECT Inc., 2019, 2022, 2023; Read, Hancock, et al., Horowitz & Taylor, 2019, 2022; M. Electroconvulsive Therapy, Manufacturers Liability, and Learned Intermediaries.

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Manufacturing Legal 122

Mad in America

JUNE 20, 2024

My clients referring to a psychiatrist in 2019 were typically told it would be a six month wait. 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.

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