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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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We cited research based on the clinical study reports the manufactures had submitted to drug regulators to get their drugs approved for children and adolescents and other research in our letter. 4,5 I asked Emslie and the manufacturer, Eli Lilly, if they wanted to restore the trials. The fraud was grave.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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Court documents revealed that, in 1999, two such US psychiatrists, Charles Nemeroff and Alan Schatzberg, published a psychiatry textbook that was ghostwritten by GlaxoSmithKline. Avoid financial conflicts of interest with manufacturers of psychoactive drugs or other treatments, e.g. equipment for electroshock.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Four)

Mad in America

There was no placebo group, and all patients started on citalopram, manufactured by Lundbeck, which was motivated by horrendously erroneous claims of citalopram’s “absence of discontinuation symptoms” and its “safety” in elderly patients. He didn’t, even though he had an obvious ethical obligation to do so.

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Review of Ketamine: The Story of Modern Psychiatry's Most Fascinating Molecule

Real Psychiatry

The book is a thorough documentation of the time course of PCP and ketamine use. Supplementary 1: The more I thought about the figure quoted for precursor amounts used in the illicit manufacture of ketamine in China - the more skeptical I became. Ketamine: The Story of Modern Psychiatry's Most Fascinating Molecule. Washington DC.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

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While the ongoing logistics of maintaining such a network have proved challenging, one such successful effort in 2006 was documented in The Wall Street Journal. He also refuses to give me any documents … and he has had absolutely zero contact with me for the vast majority of the matters he has ‘represented’ me on.”

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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Although doctors had reached a consensus in 1982 that the use of aspirin in young children could cause Reye’s syndrome, government documents show that corporate lobbyists worked to delay regulations requiring warning labels. That was the statement made by Shire Pharmaceuticals Group, the manufacturer of Adderall.

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

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But the person prescribing them (or manufacturing them) has a different problem to solve: explaining why I should still trust them to guide me to wellness. Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disorder. If I am convinced that I will get better by taking antidepressants but then don’t, this creates dissonance.