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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

Mad in America

In addition, since STAR*D’s publication, the prescription of these drugs is generating and exacerbating depression more than alleviating it. We showed how STAR*D’s authors had manipulated the data to manufacture fraudulent results. The drugs also lead to increased likelihood of relapse and of never recovering from depression.