article thumbnail

‘We Hold You Sacred’: Fighting the Opioid Crisis in the Cherokee Nation

Mad in America

From The Guardian : “In 2017, the Cherokee Nation became the first tribe to file a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors for promoting the flow of prescription opioids into its community.

article thumbnail

Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

Mad in America

We cited research based on the clinical study reports the manufactures had submitted to drug regulators to get their drugs approved for children and adolescents and other research in our letter. 4,5 I asked Emslie and the manufacturer, Eli Lilly, if they wanted to restore the trials. The fraud was grave.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides

Mad in America

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. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2022 (freely available). JAMA Psychiatry 2019;76:1241-55. 24 Gtzsche PC.

article thumbnail

RADAR and the Dignity of Risk-Taking

Mad in America

A Danish shooting in a shopping mall in 2022 is a good example, where a leading Danish psychiatrist claimed the event was caused by medical undertreatment. Findings will most likely be replicated, with increased risk for those who stop medication.

article thumbnail

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Four)

Mad in America

There was no placebo group, and all patients started on citalopram, manufactured by Lundbeck, which was motivated by horrendously erroneous claims of citalopram’s “absence of discontinuation symptoms” and its “safety” in elderly patients. 650 In 2022, he published the book, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health.

article thumbnail

MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

Mad in America

His most recent troubles began back in 2022, when he was funneled from the criminal system to the civil system, and ordered to take neuroleptic drugs on an outpatient basis, which the court notes he refused to do because of their adverse effects. In June, the California Supreme Court’s decision in Himes v.

Legal 137
article thumbnail

Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Mad in America

Although ECT is portrayed positively by the majority of research articles, there are also many negative accounts of it (BBC, 2021a, 2021b; Comiskey, 2018; Dow, 2018; Doyle, 2022; C. ECT is still controversial (Alibhai, 2022; Archer et al., 2019, 2022, 2023; Read, Hancock, et al., 2019, 2022, 2023; Read, Hancock, et al.,