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“War Cry For Change”: Veterans Launch Campaign for Informed Consent and Safe Deprescribing at the VA

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His independent research into psychiatric drug harm and pharmaceutical industry corruption would eventually lead him to Mad in America, where he launched the Veterans’ & Military Families Initiative in 2019. Pharmaceutical influence over government has allowed this to go on as long as it has. military veterans.

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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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I n 2023, the BBC released “ The Antidepressant Story ,” a film that details known, dangerous and sometimes permanent side effects associated with commonly prescribed antidepressants. It seemed then that pharmaceutical companies had discovered scientific, targeted treatments for depression, free of side effects.

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

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Guidance issued by the United Nations and World Health Organization in 2023 states that “coercive practices in mental health care violate the right to be protected from torture or cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, which is a non-derogable right.” But that number is so swamped.

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A Win for Science, with Profound Implications for Industry: FDA Rejects MDMA

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By late 2023, the general public perception was of two strong phase 3 trials that demonstrated the treatment’s efficacy in healing those with PTSD. Or perhaps the rejection of Lykos’ drug reveals something else: the powerful influence of the traditional pharmaceutical lobby at the cost of the upstart psychedelic industry.