Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

In USA, about 70,000 people were killed in 2021 by an overdose of a synthetic opioid. Institutional corruption of pharmaceuticals and the myth of safe and effective drugs. I therefore do not doubt that psychiatric drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. 34 The usage of NSAIDs is also high.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

However, rather than people becoming enraged and politically engaged to change carcinogenic environments, an extremely powerful medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex has controlled the societal narrative to focus—not on eliminating environmental-societal causes of cancer—but on expensive cancer treatments. between 1990 and 2019.”

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

On one side are academics who conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the same approach pharmaceutical companies use to establish whether drugs are effective. But critics contend that treatments provided in research settings are artificial.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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Mad in America

APRIL 9, 2024

This may be necessary when ‘ there is no suitably licensed medicine that will meet the patient’s need ’, when ‘ the dosage specified for a licensed medicine would not meet the patient’s need ’, or when ‘the patient needs a medicine in a formulation that is not specified in an applicable license’ ( GMC, 2021 ).

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

2024 Around-America Tour For almost two decades, my “True Crime” story has, sadly, been my unique contribution to challenging the powerful influence that the pharmaceutical industry has on the global healthcare system. Our family tragedy also provided the basis for the CTV W5 episodes Over the Edge (2007) and The Problem with Pills (2021).

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

Whitaker, R Anatomy of an Industry: Commerce, Payments to Psychiatrists and Betrayal of the Public Good Madinamerica.com, Sep 18, 2021. Mulcahy, A, Whaley, C International Prescription Drug Price Comparisons: Current Empirical Estimates and Comparisons with Previous Studies Rand.org, Rand Corporation, Jan 28, 2021. 2008 Sep 25;2;26.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A recent example is the work of the medical anthropologist , James Davies, who details how medicalization, the ever-expanding use of pharmaceuticals, and a consumerist philosophy based in modern capitalism has depoliticized our mental distress while driving higher levels of suffering.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Presumably, acknowledging their existence would spoil Chapman’s image of a group consisting solely of ‘privileged’ professionals who depict service users as ‘ gullible victims … who have been tricked into believing they are ill by the “myths” or “lies” invented by psychiatry or pharmaceutical companies ’. London: Pluto Press. Johnson, M.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In 2005, Steven Sharfstein, then president of the American Psychiatric Association, wrote that “Pharmaceutical companies have developed and brought to market medications that have transformed the lives of millions of psychiatric patients.” 627 Sure, but not for the better. Little has changed in recent years.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

In 2021, New York Times reporter Benedict Carey, after covering psychiatry for twenty years, concluded that psychiatry had done “little to improve the lives of the millions of people living with persistent mental distress. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Nordic researchers had no conflicts of interest while Goldney had “received honoraria and research grants from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” They quoted a 2021 review that reported that meta-analyses had found that “antidepressants prevent suicide attempts, but individual randomized controlled trials appear to be underpowered.”

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