Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For example, the “availability” shortcut: if an example of a particular event comes quickly to mind, we think the event is common; whereas if an example is hard to find in memory, we think the event is rare. This obviously leads to errors when the event is striking and dramatic (e.g. treatment-resistant tuberculosis).

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Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

The technique of excluding trials with ‘zero events’ is problematic, however, because it excludes much relevant data and makes suicide seem more common than it is. Then Martin Plöderl joined the team and brought expertise in new statistical methods of meta-analysis that have been developed to manage ‘zero event’ trials.

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Bipolar disorder Pharmaceuticals 145

Mad in America

JANUARY 15, 2024

One pharmaceutical journal berated some managed care companies for not paying for Viagra for drug-induced sexual dysfunction. However, I doubt that a pharmaceutical company would market Viagra as a treatment for depression; to do so one would have to diagnose depression as caused by an “insufficient blood supply to the genitals”!

Healthcare 104

Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 104

Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

It seemed then that pharmaceutical companies had discovered scientific, targeted treatments for depression, free of side effects. This group is also prescribed antidepressants at the highest rate, and this group, according to the FDA’s Box Warning, that’s at greatest risk of adverse events.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

For months, the GP had focused on an alleged traumatic event causing her significant psychological distress. They could not recall any traumatic event, confirming instead a stable and nurturing home life. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.

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Resilience and coping Self-awareness Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health 141

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention received significant funding from pharmaceutical companies, which understood that a suicide prevention campaign would boost sales of their drugs. There seems to be no moral bottom that stops organisations from sinking even deeper than where they already have, being corrupted by industry money.

Aging and mental health 139

Aging and mental health Mental health policy Pharmaceuticals 139

Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

In addition to being told that my only hope was to take antidepressants, I was also advised that having any further psychotherapy which went over the events of the past was pointless, and would only serve to further destabilise my precarious remission. They were becoming bold, asking awkward questions, no longer willing to learn by rote.

Trauma and the brain 145

Trauma and the brain Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Sleep and mental health 145

Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

Fifth, events after the trial is stopped are ignored. when the follow-up was 30 days, i.e. an increase in suicidal events. Institutional corruption of pharmaceuticals and the myth of safe and effective drugs. Cardiovascular events associated with rofecoxib in a colorectal adenoma chemoprevention trial. There were 1.5

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Aging and mental health Hospitality Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health 145

Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

In our 2015 book Psychiatry Under the Influence , Lisa Cosgrove and I wrote about the STAR*D scandal in depth, as it served as an example of the institutional corruption in psychiatry due to pharmaceutical interests and psychiatrys own guild interests. The 12 STAR*D authors listed a collective total of 151 ties to pharmaceutical companies.

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Pharmaceuticals Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 145

Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

If one reads the ADM literature, it is quite apparent that the pharmaceutical industry—with the help of psychiatry—since day one has been involved in a cover up of the dangerousness of these drugs. of the drugs reviewed had two or fewer cases of violence, which is reassuring for most pharmaceuticals.

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Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Aging and mental health 102

Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When mundane events increasingly take on the character of the surreal or the apocalyptic, what does it mean to be normal or sane? Even as legalization proceeds apace across the country, ayahuasca circles and similar events can already be found in many communities.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

For some of those present at the conference, it seemed to refer to certain kinds of people, for some, to certain kinds of behaviours, for others, to the consequences of certain biochemical events, and for some, to comprehensible psychological strategies.

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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. Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts.

Sleep and mental health 136

Sleep and mental health Legal Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 136

Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2025

This in turn has a significant effect on the way we respond to life’s events. New Frontiers Many blame the immense global mental health crisis on pharmaceutical companies, the psychiatric profession, social media, the government and so on.

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Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2024

It is fair to say that there had been some cracks forming in my mental health in the years preceding this event. Back in 1995, on the pharmaceutical drugs, I deteriorated. I had been ‘down’ for some time, to the point of feeling at times that I did not want to be around.

Hospitality 113

Hospitality Aging and mental health Technology Pharmaceuticals 113

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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Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Manufacturing Education 142

Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. And we will include a free option for subscribing.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 28, 2023

However, in the summer of 1990, the Prozac story started to come undone, and it was then that the pharmaceutical industry, in concert with its thought leaders from academic psychiatry, plotted the strategy that has successfully cowed the mainstream media ever since. The suicidal and homicidal events were due to “the disease, not the drug.”

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Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Education 145

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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Healthcare Sleep and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Pharmaceuticals 97

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

But society then became fully entrenched in the idea that mental health is a genetic or a chemical imbalance, which worked too well for pharmaceutical marketing. I lost my dad suddenly when I was 15, and withdrawal made me feel as if I was re-experiencing the shock and loss of that event. Siem: Thank you!

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Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood 97

Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

pharmaceutical companies and medical device companies) are especially prone to producing very poor quality and biased research. Despite the very serious adverse side effects of anti-seizure drugs, these risks are warranted but should these necessary high-risk drugs be also FDA-approved for more minor and less serious health problems?

Healthcare 94

Healthcare Sleep and mental health Insurance Pharmaceuticals 94

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Dhar: Eventually you found the trauma model that talked about extreme childhood stress events, and it explained a lot of your suffering. You write that you worry about how psychedelics are getting co-opted by pharmaceutical industries. There wasn’t much space for another way of seeing the problem of obsessions and compulsions.

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Psychedelic therapy Childhood trauma 113

Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

In marketing any product, from laundry detergent to prescription drugs to luxury automobiles, marketers know the key is to keep it simple, and the pharmaceutical industry certainly has learned this lesson well. From Freud, psychiatry looked to poor rearing of the child and early or later adverse life events as the cause of mental disorders.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness 77

How Psychiatry Works

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Addicted people learn to talk themselves through the events that will follow an impulsive choice or ill advised decision. On the other hand, in the US, the pharmaceutical industry has promoted the idea that medication reverses human problems. I don’t withhold meds for people studying for the Bar exam.

Trauma and the brain 52

Trauma and the brain Pharmaceuticals 52

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.

Manufacturing 139

Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Nonprofits 139

Mad in America

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The prescription included a total of eight medications, two of which were injections, for a 16-year-old girl who had presented with a two-day history of vague physical symptoms following a stressful event. The answer is simple: it is also the standard that pharmaceutical companies hold us to. This is where the kickbacks come from.

Biopsychosocial model 140

Biopsychosocial model Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Healthcare 140

Mad in America

AUGUST 14, 2024

In a way, neither of these events is surprising—the research has been marred by controversy for years and the FDA advisory committee in June voted against approval. Or perhaps the rejection of Lykos’ drug reveals something else: the powerful influence of the traditional pharmaceutical lobby at the cost of the upstart psychedelic industry.

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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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Aging and mental health Insurance Mental health policy Pharmaceuticals 141

Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This was a too-familiar tragedy that my family, like so many other families, suffered alone without any genuine help in understanding the confusing events that were occurring. They were led to believe that only a medical doctor could restore their mystifying, outrageous-acting son to his accustomed role within the family.

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Hospitality Education Construction Pharmaceuticals 109

Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

2024 Around-America Tour For almost two decades, my “True Crime” story has, sadly, been my unique contribution to challenging the powerful influence that the pharmaceutical industry has on the global healthcare system. Far too many, which is why my 2024 Around-America Tour is starting on February 14, Valentine’s Day.

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Legal Pharmaceuticals Healthcare Hospitality 116

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

The reasoning is that, from a neurodiversity perspective, ‘schizophrenia’ does not refer either to the symptoms of an illness, or to reactions to toxic circumstances and life events. Instead, it describes a specific ‘neurominority’ , a particular kind of person. This heterogeneity makes it difficult to generalise.

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Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 143

Real Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The sales of these drugs is a windfall for the pharmaceutical industry and current pricing means that other businesses that make money from rationing access to medical care and medications will be trying to prevent their use. Risk of adverse outcomes were 8%, 7.43%, and 16.57% in the same order.

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Pharmaceuticals Education 83

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

Here are three possible ways: 1) Its normal to feel emotional pain in response to life events. Golec, J, Vernon, J European Pharmaceutical Price Regulation, Firm Profitability, and R & D Spending Working Paper 12676, National Bureau of Economic Research, Nov 2006. Could the above progress itself be causing our rising suicides?

Healthcare 90

Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 90

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

Technology 143

Technology Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 143

Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When you’re working with a client who has latched onto a metaphor, like the “broken brain” metaphor — which holds considerable cultural sway and is often endorsed by the psychiatric establishment and even pharmaceutical companies — how do you approach it?

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Aging and mental health Self-awareness Trauma and the brain Healthcare 136

Mad in America

JUNE 29, 2024

It was a star-studded event, with prominent figures from world psychiatry in attendance. The pharmaceutical industry in this conference was treated like a creepy rich uncle who you must invite to the family reunion but then also strategically ignore. The theme of the conference was public mental health.

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Global mental health Poverty and mental health Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 120

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

saying the following: KENNEDY: Prior to the introduction of Prozac, we had almost nonone of these events in our country, and we’ve never seen them in human history, where people walk into a school room of children or strangers and start shooting people. All right, there’s no evidence of that, Ms. I believe that I know the answer.

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