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Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of Speech—So, What Now?

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The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on depression treatment are clear: “Antidepressant medications are not needed for mild depression.” What are the drugs doing?

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 2)

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In this blog, he addresses the scientific literature on antidepressant efficacy and FDA approval. S ome of the following studies appeared in my book Antidepressants: Science, Magic or Marketing , 1 and in the next section, I will report on some of the more recent depression treatment outcome studies.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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The first NIMH treatment outcome study , which was published in 1989, found the drug treatment (imipramine) to be no more effective than placebo when measures were taken after three months of treatment. Entitled, “Research Matters: Treating Depression,” it doubles down on the fraudulent reporting of the treatments.