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The New York Times Is Now Engulfed in the STAR*D Scandal

Mad in America

This was a story of a great medical advance, and the announced results from the STAR*D trial, heralded by the NIMH as the “largest and longest study ever done to evaluate depression treatment,” fit into that story of medical progress, for it told of 70% of depressed patients becoming “symptom free” after repeated treatments with antidepressants.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

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American psychiatry has weathered the crisis; it will not have to confront a public stunned by news of how the oft-cited 67% cumulative remission rate, in the largest and longest study ever done to evaluate depression treatment,” was born of scientific misconduct. Short of this, the best remaining course to take is a retraction.”

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Coping with Seasonal Affective Disorder: Strategies for Women

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Remember to document which prevention methods work best for you – this information becomes invaluable for managing symptoms in future seasons. Your provider will track the timing, duration, and severity of your symptoms through detailed questionnaires and personal interviews.

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

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However, there was recognition within the NIMH that that the industry-funded trials didn’t necessarily provide evidence of the efficacy of antidepressants in real-world patients, which prompted it to launch the STAR*D study, touting it as the “largest and longest study ever done to evaluate depression treatment.”

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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

Mad in America

The eighties and nineties were a depression-treatment renaissance. James Davies in his book Cracked: the Unhappy Truth About Psychiatry, along with hundreds of papers over forty years, documented how members of the APA created most disorders with little, and in many cases, no empirically reviewed studies. billion worldwide.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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Three other published critiques of the STAR*D study document this malfeasant reporting of the findings —all to no avail because psychiatry is in total control of the narrative. The second NIMH depression treatment study , which was published in 1992, reported on the long-term outcome of these drug treated patients.