Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

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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Bipolar disorder Pharmaceuticals 144

Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

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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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

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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Sleep and mental health Legal Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 126

Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray). The dealbreaker, he said, was researcher and participant bias due to lack of blinding.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals 103

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

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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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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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Technology Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 137

Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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.

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Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Hospitality Bipolar disorder 98