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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

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It was called chlorpromazine (Thorazine) and was made from an earlier pharmaceutical in 1951 used to relax naval hospital patients getting ready for surgery. These substantial documents were full of episodes, symptom profiles, side effects, general health, family, work, and social histories.

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The Ethics of Long-Term Psychiatric Drug Use and Why We Need a Better Way

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Toxicity That Psychiatry Refuses to Acknowledge Mainstream psychiatry acknowledges that antipsychotics can cause neurotoxicitytardive dyskinesia is a well-documented condition. The medical community is comfortable acknowledging persistent brain injury from recreational drugs, yet remains silent when it comes to pharmaceuticals.

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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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Of the 4,041 patients who entered the trial, only 108 had remitted and then stayed well and in the study to its one-year end, a documented stay-well rate of 3%. The public now had easy access to source documents that told of how the STAR*D investigators had deviated from the protocol to produce their inflated 67% remission rate.

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Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressants’ Withdrawal Effects

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We add: ‘The three largest online surveys included in our review document the experiences of hundreds of people who have taken antidepressants for between 1 year and several years (ie, typical antidepressant users).’ The typical antidepressant user, however, takes these drugs for several years.’

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Deadly Prescriptions: New Study Links Antipsychotics to Life-Threatening Risks in Dementia Patients

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While CPRD records accurately document antipsychotic prescriptions, there is no data on adherence to these prescriptions. A Huffington Post expos revealed that pharmaceutical companies have aggressively marketed antipsychotics to vulnerable populations, including the elderly, for off-label usesdespite evidence of serious harm.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Moore: The last couple of questions are related to the pharmaceutical industry. Thank you to all of you who took the time and trouble to send in your questions.

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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. Those who shape psychiatry are often deeply corrupt, 7,533 and they often “forget” to declare their conflicts of interest against the rules.