Mad in America

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Breaking a person’s bones continuously to see how long it would take before they would never heal again, for example, but Whitaker describesmany other unthinkable experimentsthat would make anyone with a conscience squirmat the depths of cruelty an educated person can inflict on another human being.

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Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

In the last few years, I have met two educators in different parts of the country. Neither of them were medical themselves but both qualified teachers and had the academic credentials to be recognised as experts in education. Both were involved in teaching medical students and/or doctors.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Together, we have created a movement that rejects coercion, force, and pharmaceutical propaganda and embraces informed consent, individual choice, and alternative ways to deal with distress. However, careless, discouraging drive-by comments on a social media platform may have unintended consequences, even if meant to be educational.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While the researcher had just completed his academic training to become a psychiatrist, he received no education at all on the withdrawal issues facing him, as well as more than 1 in 6 patients prescribed antidepressants. SSRI antidepressants and other blockbuster psychiatric drugs were released in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2024

and of course a host of pharmaceutical drugs. Without this knowledge, any diagnosis is merely an educated guess, and any treatment risks being misguided. At the same time, people with high ACE scores are also more likely to do drug of all kindstobacco, marijuana, alcohol, opiates, mushrooms, etc.,

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

An excellent source of straightforward information on akathisia, including videos and an online course, is MISSD, a medication-induced suicide prevention and education foundation established in the memory of Stewart Dolin, who killed himself in 2010 shortly after being prescribed paroxetine for mild situational anxiety.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Contemporary education readily acknowledges this fact. Mr. Blue is highly educated. His undergrad is in Biology, he has a master’s in education and was trained as a lawyer. A 504 is a student education plan guaranteed to students with disabilities according to the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, section 504.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Patient Decision Aids PDAs are supposed to help providers share treatment decision-making, including paper or video or digital educational materials focused on a specific health problem. One of the reasons: creating informative Patient Decision Aids (PDAs) is difficult. Not the right starting point for creating a good placebo effect.

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Mad in America

JULY 18, 2024

After making their competition illegal, the AMA next undertook an effort to improve medical techniques and education. presumably educated in the 1980s) told me of Osteopaths in the early 1900s getting much better results treating typhoid than the Medical Doctors who were still using calomel (mercury). By the early 1900s, most U.S.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Schatzberg has served as a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corcept Therapeutics, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals, Organon, ParkeDavis, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Recovery education: NHS-funded Recovery Colleges in the UK and similar programs in the US take an education-based approach to mental health challenges that is loosely based on a recovery model. These typically involve some significant degree of peer leadership.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of these studies, sponsored of course by a pharmaceutical company, was conducted by the Kansas University Medical School, Wichita branch, and I attended, along with a group of local psychologists, a presentation of this study in progress by one of the staff psychologists who was one of the researchers and CBT therapists.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Education systems prioritize conformity over creativity, training individuals to fit into predetermined roles rather than question the status quo. Modern psychiatry, heavily influenced by pharmaceutical companies, often prioritizes medication over addressing root causes. This compromised reality infiltrates every aspect of life.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

Given the current level of neuroscientific understanding of causality in the brain and nervous system, it seems pretty much inevitable that exposure to pharmaceutical psychotropics will produce adverse consequences. Even if the harms are not properly recognized or understood till decades later.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

High levels of childhood adversity, known to affect mental and physical health across the lifespan, are influenced by and contribute to problems such as severe violent crime, poverty, and lack of access to education. Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We were also challenging the prevailing mental illness narrative espoused by NAMI, most psychiatrists, and the pharmaceutical industry. We are engaged in a marketing effort to start a hearing voices education center that can reach high schools, universities, and mental health clinics.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Capitalist society is not based on happiness but on productivity, and psychiatry is part of this system, not least because of the pharmaceutical companies’ great influence over research. By reading and educating ourselves as much as we can about how both people and society work. When the whole society is dysfunctional?

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Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

However, rather than people becoming enraged and politically engaged to change carcinogenic environments, an extremely powerful medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex has controlled the societal narrative to focus—not on eliminating environmental-societal causes of cancer—but on expensive cancer treatments. between 1990 and 2019.”

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I believe all of the existing health entities—providers, health insurance companies, the FDA, the pharmaceutical industry, and managed care—cannot and will not make needed changes to improve the quality of healthcare and to lower the cost as well. the drug company) for their science education.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. A century ago, Paul Ehrlich, whose research helped create the modern pharmaceutical industry, saw the ideal medicine as a Magic Bullet, a drug that hits a target without causing collateral damage. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

I have had a similarly educative but terrifying experience. Rose: Educations are like that. You write that you worry about how psychedelics are getting co-opted by pharmaceutical industries. I came away realizing that that was pain that had been lurking under the surface of my experience since I was a little kid. Tell us more.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 28, 2023

” It established its own press to publish books that would “provide much public education about the profession.” It created a division of publications and marketing to “deepen the medical identification of psychiatrists.”

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

135 One should never start psychiatric drug treatment without having a tapering plan, but no one taught doctors how to stop the drugs, whereas they have learned from their professors and the pharmaceutical industry when to start them and always to blame the disease for untoward symptoms, ignoring the troubles they have caused.

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NAMI

JULY 23, 2024

This is one more reason why its so important that university leaders be educated about this challenge and equipped to provide greater support.) I vividly remember beginning my tenure in the pharmaceutical industry and learning much more about schizophrenia and available therapies.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 25, 2023

So I just thought that maybe I needed to change pharmaceuticals, not change who I was and my perspective. He’s more educated than them on the subject at this point. Again, I had fully bought into the narrative that this was hard science and that it was as effective as Advil for headaches or insulin for diabetes. But what do you do?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

On one side are academics who conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the same approach pharmaceutical companies use to establish whether drugs are effective. The insurance benefit, however, is only available to therapists who “continuously” work 30 hours per week for two months.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. The marketing of medical conditions has become a key plank of pharmaceutical industry marketing. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products.

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Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2024

Vikram Patel and Paul Farmer have shown that you can train local people who have limited education to deliver psychotherapy, and their outcomes can be indistinguishable from those of psychologists and psychiatrists. Kleinman : It has to do with the development of an educated middle class globally.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Shield volunteer Annie Singer uploads regular videos across TikTok and multiple platforms updating followers on the campaigns and providing education on the issues. The Himes decision “clarifies a gap in the law that the pharmaceutical industry has exploited for decades,” said plaintiff’s attorneys Wisner Baum in a statement.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place. A focus on depression in Australia corresponded with similar campaigns in the US and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The belief that helping to educate and promote a good enough family will have a powerful effect on decreasing the number of people who will become lifelong drugged mental patients. For too long, the biochemical model has failed to fulfill its promises and has blocked the emergence and development of creative community-based services.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A bout five years into my career in the mental health field, I began to truly realize the depths of corruption involved in the pharmaceutical industry. These suggestions are for educational purposes only. BODY Trace minerals and electrolytes – Pharmaceuticals deplete the body of key trace minerals and electrolytes.

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Mad in America

APRIL 9, 2024

Metaphorically speaking, this is akin to allowing pharmaceutical companies to sell cars without having to verify if they have brakes that are functioning. Earlier in this blog I wrote that pharmaceutical companies have been allowed to sell cars without having to verify if they have brakes that are functioning.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A recent example is the work of the medical anthropologist , James Davies, who details how medicalization, the ever-expanding use of pharmaceuticals, and a consumerist philosophy based in modern capitalism has depoliticized our mental distress while driving higher levels of suffering.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While naturopathic doctors focus on natural therapies, their ability to prescribe pharmaceutical drugs depends on licensing, education, and state regulations. Their approach often includes herbal medicine, acupuncture, dietary counseling, and lifestyle coaching before turning to pharmaceuticals.

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