Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Almost nothing is known about people like me, first prescribed in the shining-future moment of magazine cover stories when SSRIs seemed a silver bullet for complex mental issues, and then left to rot for decades. Some of these drugs, like paroxetine, also interfere with other chemical messengers (e.g., There are no studies, not yet.
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
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.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 28, 2023
Newspapers and magazine headlines during the 1980s told of a “revolution” under way in psychiatry. Magazines put the pill on its cover, and media told of patients who had suffered from depression for years suddenly coming alive. All of this paid off. Researchers were now discovering the biological causes of major psychiatric diseases.
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.
Mad in America
JANUARY 6, 2024
Ads for the for-profit therapy company BetterHelp are everywhere: on television, public radio, podcasts, social media, and in magazines. On one side are academics who conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the same approach pharmaceutical companies use to establish whether drugs are effective. “G et help, you deserve to be happy!”
Mad in America
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Joseph Aspirin for Children was aggressively marketed to parents, relying heavily on newspaper and magazine ads. 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.
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