Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What’s concerning is that despite the significant impact of sexual dysfunction on patients’ quality of life, many did not discuss these issues with their healthcare providers. Stephenson and a team of researchers from various academic and pharmaceutical institutions, including the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

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Mad in America

JUNE 18, 2024

2024,” healthcare visits, procedures, tests, and vaccinations decreased but the number of new prescriptions saw a 3% increase. Pharmaceutical spending in the U.S. In certain cases, pharmaceuticals can harm public health. A ccording to the IQVIA Institute report, “The Use of Medicines in the U.S.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

His proposed solution was to make it harder to qualify for sick leave and health support, aiming to reduce government spending on disability and healthcare. Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRIs).

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

as they uncover the intricate dynamics of the Medical and Pharmaceutical Industry. They delve into institutional corruption, misinformation, the shift from prevention to treatment, and the urgent need for healthcare reform. Ruwart, Ph.D., Robert Whitaker, and John Abramson, M.D.

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Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

I hope that by telling it, I can help others find a better way to manage their own healthcare, diagnoses, and whatever medications they may or may not choose to take. I dont know this for a fact, but Id bet a lot of money goes into The New York Times from pharmaceutical advertising. No lettersbefore or after my name.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. 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. In this blog, he begins a discussion on depression and antidepressant drugs.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This database includes information on diagnoses, prescriptions, lab results, healthcare contacts, and referrals. 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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Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

What’s more, the notion of fighting a health condition implies that success depends on individual effort and resources, which can marginalise those with limited access to healthcare resources, including the uninsured or underinsured. Describing drugs as a ‘weapons’ or ‘magic bullets’ encourages more aggressive treatment strategies.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” The Lancet is the extended marketing arm of the pharmaceutical industry, [21] just like the New England Journal of Medicine , which has also published articles denying that depression pills cause suicide. [22] 51] Can anything be worse than this in healthcare?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Unfortunately, although treatment results are better when patients are involved in decision-making, healthcare professionals do not easily adopt SDM and even institutional efforts to make it routine have often failed. It means sharing the decision-making process after disclosing the risks and benefits of at least a few treatment options.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. Those who see healthcare going down the tubes get indignant about these adverts, saying all would be fine if there were no free lunches and doctors were guided by the evidence. They go by the evidence.

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

One is on conflicts of interest in medicine broadly, looking at influential information sources that are used by physicians and other healthcare providers. Nike knows that to sell sneakers they’re going to tap a very famous athlete and in much the same way that Nike knows that, so too do the pharmaceutical company executives.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Healthcare becomes a commodity, as do the patients themselves. Modern psychiatry, heavily influenced by pharmaceutical companies, often prioritizes medication over addressing root causes. This commodification extends beyond the workplace, infiltrating education, healthcare, and even personal relationships.

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Mad in America

JULY 18, 2024

The skit conveys some examples of state-of-the-art healthcare in England, circa 1303 A.D.: When the pharmaceutical industry realized their new tranquilizers could be sold to make psychosis more manageable, psychiatrists were easy marks for the promotional campaigns. This is the story of one such barber.

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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

As a result there are few services available at the primary healthcare facilities the majority of South Africans rely on when theyre unwell, and government isnt in the position to prioritize the training of black psychologists who, speaking indigenous languages, would be able to reach the rural poor most neglected by the system.

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NAMI

JULY 23, 2024

Healthcare has always been endlessly fascinating to me, but this work is especially close to my heart. I vividly remember beginning my tenure in the pharmaceutical industry and learning much more about schizophrenia and available therapies. She currently serves as head of Boehringer Ingelheims mental health franchise in the 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. They are not medical diseases.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

There is continuing discrimination in the workplace and in healthcare settings. It is tempting to suggest that the pharmaceutical industry and others that feed off their profits have been on to this for some time, but they exploit it as marketing rather than open, constructive research.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We were not given any advice or support from healthcare services to help our family adjust to this enormous change in our circumstances. Naturally I was buoyant to be back home, but I had always been regarded as “the patient” in isolation from my social and family networks.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

In 2000, JAMA reported the US yearly estimated iatrogenic deaths: 12,000 caused by unnecessary surgeries; 27,000 caused by medication errors and other errors in hospitals; 80,000 hospital/healthcare facility acquired infections; and 106,000 “non-error” adverse effects of medication. and the number of early-onset cancer deaths increased by 27.7%

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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. Life expectancy has increased globally due to advancements in medical technology, better hygiene, and improved access to healthcare.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

lakhs on healthcare,” she explained. Depression and anxiety were proof that you had a mind deep and dark enough to need pharmaceuticals to keep the demons at bay. Her husband, who works as an electrician, stood by her through many medical appointments and even agreed to try IVF, a costly procedure that used up their savings.

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The New York Times -- Mental Health

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Federal regulators will no longer require patients to provide blood tests before receiving the drug from pharmacies.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moynihan’s research and writing focus on the healthcare industry, with an emphasis on how diseases are created, branded, and marketed to unsuspecting people. For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. I started writing books.

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Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2024

In this interview, Kleinman explores critical issues facing modern healthcare. healthcare, and offers insightful reflections on the global mental health movement. The system of healthcare today in America is toxic to good care. That is the role that the healthcare system forces them into. That’s deeply disturbing.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. is the only developed nation with for-profit healthcare. Suffering is the main reason people seek healthcare. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Yousaf Raza Illicit Ties with the Pharmaceutical Industry Prescribing more medications than are justified is the number-one crime of which a shamefully large number of psychiatrists are guilty. The answer is simple: it is also the standard that pharmaceutical companies hold us to. This is where the kickbacks come from.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

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. Today’s decision in Himes is not only a victory for consumers injured by defective pharmaceuticals and medical devices but is a victory for anyone who champions patient autonomy.”

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Naturopathic medicine is gaining more attention as people seek natural and holistic approaches to healthcare. At Center for Integrative Psychiatry, we recognize the growing interest in holistic and integrative healthcare, especially in mental health treatment. But one common question remains: Can a naturopath prescribe medication?

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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. The information shared below is not medical advice and I am not suggesting anyone stop taking a psychotropic medication without consulting with a healthcare professional.

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Mad in America

APRIL 9, 2024

According to the FDA, ‘ healthcare providers generally may prescribe the drug for an unapproved use when they judge that it is medically appropriate for their patient ’ ( FDA, 2018 ). Metaphorically speaking, this is akin to allowing pharmaceutical companies 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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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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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

This hunt for medical confirmation tends to be accompanied by a consumerist perspective on healthcare which sees the acquisition of the desired diagnosis as a right, not an expert opinion that may or may not be deemed applicable in a given case. The consequences for assessment and therapy were described in Part 3.

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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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