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Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention

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But Ghaemi wants to claim that lithium is special—that it does more than target symptom mechanisms, it modifies the disease process that underpins bipolar disorder. More people than ever are using psychiatric drugs, such as antidepressants, and seeking psychiatric diagnoses including depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD and autism.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

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In our 2015 book Psychiatry Under the Influence , Lisa Cosgrove and I wrote about the STAR*D scandal in depth, as it served as an example of the institutional corruption in psychiatry due to pharmaceutical interests and psychiatrys own guild interests. We also put up a petition on change.org calling for the AJP to retract the 2006 paper.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. A century ago, Paul Ehrlich, whose research helped create the modern pharmaceutical industry, saw the ideal medicine as a Magic Bullet, a drug that hits a target without causing collateral damage. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry 2023, 25, 119-134.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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But now they often say Since they have bipolar disorder, theyll never be able to manage their emotions or achieve any stability. Golec, J, Vernon, J European Pharmaceutical Price Regulation, Firm Profitability, and R & D Spending Working Paper 12676, National Bureau of Economic Research, Nov 2006.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. That’s been the question posed to me in 2023 by interviewers such as Nick Fortino on “ Psychology Is ” and Mollie Adler on “Back from the Borderline. ” Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex.

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Exile: My Cure for Psychosis

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What is at stake here with this discussion is the billion-dollar business that the pharmaceutical companies make with their unproven myth that mental illness results from a chemical imbalance in the brain that can only be corrected by taking antipsychotic drugs. Here are the incarceration rates for the seven countries.