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

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However, the creation of a “Prozac Nation” might not have been successful without the help of the NIMH, which launched an “educational campaign” at that time designed to change the public’s understanding of depression. Without that campaign, the “disease model” of depression may never have taken hold in the public mind.

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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.