Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Think about this: people with psychosis are locked in hospitals against their will and forcibly injected with tranquilizing drugs because psychiatry says that they are not capable of making their own treatment decisions. How, then, could they miss that capacity when they locked them in the hospital and drugged them against their will?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Through the 1990s, I was dismayed that the influence of pharmaceutical marketing had seemed to suppress that idea, as polypharmacy and use of higher doses of drugs became part of accepted practice. Hospital stays are brief and doses are increased rapidly. The rationale for long-term use of the drugs is to reduce the risk of relapse.

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Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. I dont know this for a fact, but Id bet a lot of money goes into The New York Times from pharmaceutical advertising. He was taking 90 milligrams a dayfar above the recommended dosage. And then he started abusing it, taking more and more. But no one told us.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

He said that I had to be taken to my local hospital immediately because I was a danger to myself and others. At my local hospital, the nurses treated me like a criminal. Slamming me onto the hospital bed, two policemen manually restrained my wrists to the unforgiving frame with metal handcuffs. Nothing I said to him mattered.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this blog, he addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality as well as further dangers of psychiatric drugs, including tardive dyskinesia. Does psychiatric hospitalization and medicine save the lives of suicidal patients? At least that’s the “theory” but let’s look at the facts.

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Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2024

When these thoughts reached a crisis point in my mind, I was arrested while in this altered state of reality, assessed, and admitted to Pineview, an acute unit at Porirua Hospital in August 1995 following a car chase with local police. Back in 1995, on the pharmaceutical drugs, I deteriorated.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

He was escorted him out of the clinic, handcuffed to a gurney in an ambulance, and taken to our county’s mental hospital. When I was finally permitted to see him three days later, he was lying on the ground in the hospital’s rec room, alone, shaking from the side effects of the Haldol they had given him.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT. I was discharged from hospital and relieved of compulsory treatment. But I remained well, and finally, the detention order was lifted. Our children were furious.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. And so I spent a lot of my teenage years visiting him in various mental hospitals and getting a very clear glimpse of the toll of this cycle of hospitalization, labelling and drugging. I was also put on Prozac.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2025

Soon after mentioning these experiences to my local doctor and the minister of the church I attended, I was certified insane and involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. Despite my best efforts, however, I was in and out of psychiatric hospitals for short stays on many occasions over the next fourteen years.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer. Her mother Patricia has been diagnosed with bipolar I and is currently in hospital. From there shes usually sent to a bigger hospital with a psychiatric department but its in another city, almost two hours away by minibus taxi.

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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] No surprise there. This is dishonest. 21] Smith R.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Clinical Iatrogenesis In medicine, clinical iatrogenesis comprises all conditions for which physicians and other medical professionals, hospitals and other medical facilities, and their treatments are the causes of various types of harm, including death. and the number of early-onset cancer deaths increased by 27.7% between 1990 and 2019.”

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Mad in America

JULY 18, 2024

When the pharmaceutical industry realized their new tranquilizers could be sold to make psychosis more manageable, psychiatrists were easy marks for the promotional campaigns. I suspect a primary problem is the pharmaceutical industry coming up with new pills to sell. The Soviets found an inventive use for psychiatric tranquilizers.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The residents, most of whom were either born in Gujarat, or had somehow ended up in Gujarat, had been referred to this Center by hospitals, various non-governmental organizations, or simply arrived here by word-of-mouth. For medical emergencies, the residents are taken to a small hospital in the neighboring town of Anjar.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

And resulted in “ better 2-year outcomes for patients with newly diagnosed schizophrenia spectrum psychoses,” when compared with hospital based treatment. Greater education on the drug interactions and risks of pharmaceutical psychotropics, for both prescribers and patients, is required.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. or they might react with “Help!” or “Leave me alone, there is nothing wrong with me.”.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

These elements include the following: Peer-led initiatives: Peer respites, for example, are now an established alternative to acute care psychiatric hospitalization in some communities. And any notion of joining and integrating these diverse elements remains purely speculative for the moment.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

Patients weren’t screened well and some were inappropriate for online therapy, struggling with severe psychopathology that required intensive in-person or hospital treatment. They market themselves in a manner similar to what, for example, a hospital would do. But from the outset, he became uncomfortable with the working conditions.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Over 500 inmates found themselves uprooted, some returned to families, others to state-run hospitals. “Nobody wanted to be in the hospitals anymore, so they all came back and began to live here again,” Syed Ruknudeen Ibrahim, a shrine trustee, told Scroll. Authorities shut down all unlicensed mental homes in Erwadi.

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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.

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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. TIC has become so popular that its approach is boasted by most hospitals, schools , social services, correctional facilities.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

pharmaceutical companies and medical device companies) are especially prone to producing very poor quality and biased research.

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Mad in America

MAY 15, 2024

You don’t serve the hospital. Siem: You don’t serve the pharmaceutical company who might be paying you on the side. Brooke Siem: What do you mean by “fiduciary duty to your patient”? Nardi: It means you serve the person who is paying you. You don’t serve the clinic that hired you. You don’t serve the CEO.

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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. Discharged.”

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

You write that you worry about how psychedelics are getting co-opted by pharmaceutical industries. At home there was a constant level of ambient chaos. I saw a lot of distressing things when I was very young and into my 20s. It makes sense that that a young psyche would go to extreme lengths to manage the stress. Tell us more.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

For example, Dhar notes that doctors in India must prescribe medications chosen by the government, reducing the sway pharmaceutical companies have over their thinking. The group focuses on South Asia-based research studies and perspectives in order to promote South Asian viewpoints that differ from Western ones.

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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

Every time I was in the hospital, they always had a little flier that said, ‘Know your Rights.’ For Barnes, the Shield volunteer, Russell’s experience reminds her of stories she’d been told about her maternal grandfather who was committed to a state hospital. But that number is so swamped. There are so many people needing help.

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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. When the incident occurred, my panic-stricken mother told my father to take me to the hospital right away.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 21, 2024

David Taylor is the Director of Pharmacy and Pathology at Maudsley Hospital and a Professor of Psychopharmacology at King’s College in London. The Maudsley Hospital was founded on the basis of a need for treatment of shellshock after the first World War. Listen to the audio of the interview here. Who’s Maudsley?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Gibbons has been an expert witness in lawsuits for two pharmaceutical companies that sell antidepressants. The pharmaceutical companies have also hidden many suicides and suicide attempts in their clinical trials. ” The authors presented another analysis in which they had adjusted for psychiatric hospital contact.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1966. My mother visited me during those first weeks I was being kept in the hospital seclusion room, and I angrily lashed out at her. She could not see or grasp what the hospital was doing to me behind those hidden locked doors.

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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. My eyes were first opened during a clinical psychology internship at a local psychiatric hospital. Liberation from pharmaceuticals is possible, but it is not an easy journey.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Thats not a leap people often makefrom philosophical psychology to critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and medicalization. She was deeply involved in critical psychiatry and critiques of the pharmaceutical industry. After grad school, I was teaching at Daemen College when my mother had a mental health crisis and was hospitalized.

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