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Prescription Drugs: The Hidden Costs to Health and the Planet

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2024,” healthcare visits, procedures, tests, and vaccinations decreased but the number of new prescriptions saw a 3% increase. Pharmaceutical spending in the U.S. In certain cases, pharmaceuticals can harm public health. A ccording to the IQVIA Institute report, “The Use of Medicines in the U.S.

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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

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In 2024, she published a book, Recovery from Schizophrenia: Evidence, History and Hope , that told of her Vermont Longitudinal Study and how many in psychiatry, rather than celebrate the relatively good outcomes for the patients in her study, instead were quite furious with her for upsetting their beliefs.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” The Lancet is the extended marketing arm of the pharmaceutical industry, [21] just like the New England Journal of Medicine , which has also published articles denying that depression pills cause suicide. [22] Petition launched 2024;Apr 21. [46]

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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

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Stephenson and a team of researchers from various academic and pharmaceutical institutions, including the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Maelys Touya was an employee of Lundbeck LLC, and Lambros Chrones was an employee of Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., The study was authored by Judith J. Additionally, Anita H. Chrones, L.,

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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Harm Reduction, Not Judgment

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Together, we have created a movement that rejects coercion, force, and pharmaceutical propaganda and embraces informed consent, individual choice, and alternative ways to deal with distress. 2024) show that a sizable proportion of people, perhaps a third to a half, can quit antidepressants in the most haphazard ways and do well in the end.

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Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressants’ Withdrawal Effects

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Our review has been cited over 400 times (Google Scholar Sept 16, 2024), perhaps most importantly in the historic Public Health England (PHE) report on dependence and withdrawal associated with some prescribed medicines. 8 June, 2024). ‘Even with these limitations, many of the studies find that withdrawal reactions are common.

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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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It seemed then that pharmaceutical companies had discovered scientific, targeted treatments for depression, free of side effects. SSRI antidepressants and other blockbuster psychiatric drugs were released in the late 1980s and early 1990s.