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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

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Dhar: Is this what inspired you to create the “documentary” for ‘Motivational Deficiency Disorder’ and the April Fool piece in BMJ along with it? Then, the doctors graduate, and much of the continuing medical education they receive is sponsored by pharmaceutical interests. You will get them if you go to independent medical education.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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We showed how STAR*D’s authors had manipulated the data to manufacture fraudulent results. The same falsehoods are taught in continuing education programs to previously credentialed psychiatrists. In addition, since STAR*D’s publication, the prescription of these drugs is generating and exacerbating depression more than alleviating it.