Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Stephenson and a team of researchers from various academic and pharmaceutical institutions, including the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Maelys Touya was an employee of Lundbeck LLC, and Lambros Chrones was an employee of Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., The study was authored by Judith J. Additionally, Anita H.

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Mad in America

JUNE 15, 2024

His independent research into psychiatric drug harm and pharmaceutical industry corruption would eventually lead him to Mad in America, where he launched the Veterans’ & Military Families Initiative in 2019. Pharmaceutical influence over government has allowed this to go on as long as it has.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The pharmaceutical industry has downplayed the risks of withdrawal symptoms following the discontinuation of antidepressant medications. Giovanni Fava posed a controversial question: could antidepressants be worsening the very conditions they were designed to treat?

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Mad in America

APRIL 5, 2024

Levine regarding the problem of depression in America. ” Back to Around the Web The post Debunking the Myths About Depression and Antidepressants appeared first on Mad In America.

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Mad in America

MARCH 8, 2025

It was called chlorpromazine (Thorazine) and was made from an earlier pharmaceutical in 1951 used to relax naval hospital patients getting ready for surgery. At this time, across the US there was huge excitement about a drug for patients and it was being tested.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

as they uncover the intricate dynamics of the Medical and Pharmaceutical Industry. From The Real Truth About Health : “Join us for an eye-opening discussion with Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D., Robert Whitaker, and John Abramson, M.D. This discussion provides essential information to protect and promote your health.”

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The pharmaceutical industry would love to target cognitively normal people who have amyloid plaque because that’s a huge market – 30%-to-50% of older individuals. Many people ages 65 and older have significant amounts of amyloid plaque, yet never have cognitive impairment.

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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”!

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Moore: The last couple of questions are related to the pharmaceutical industry. Thank you to all of you who took the time and trouble to send in your questions.

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Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

Medical research is largely funded by the pharmaceutical industry, papers ghostwritten by the pharmaceutical industry and influencers paid by the pharmaceutical industry. They were becoming bold, asking awkward questions, no longer willing to learn by rote.

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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.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The pharmaceutical industry set out to change that mindset when they were marketing the SSRIs and SNRIs, with campaigns that told people depression was caused by a chemical imbalance. Prior to the 1990s, people generally thought of depression, in particular, as a reaction to life events.

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Mad in America

MARCH 27, 2024

The RCTs were mostly funded by the pharmaceutical industry, and they included abrupt discontinuation of the antipsychotic drug—which causes withdrawal effects that could be mistaken for poor outcomes after discontinuation. The included RCTs have their own biases, which may account for this finding, according to the researchers.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

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. Dementia care demands a shift away from pharmaceutical quick-fixes toward evidence-based behavioral interventions.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Because the FDA requires that pharmaceutical companies submit data on all trials that will be used for regulatory approval, it is possible to examine the data from all the pivotal studies conducted rather than just the ones that end up published.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

It seemed then that pharmaceutical companies had discovered scientific, targeted treatments for depression, free of side effects. SSRI antidepressants and other blockbuster psychiatric drugs were released in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

When medical historians say, “This particular person got an appreciable amount of money from a pharmaceutical company, in this case, Merck and Parke-Davis,” we want to know how much money it is. He wanted his friends to use this drug, he wanted his family members to use this drug. He was also a major user for an extended period.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The people in our research started to recognizethese signals and are now able to choose a better way or ask for help way before it ends up in the emergency roomthis is real recovery; this is innate health in action and no pharmaceuticals or torturous surgery needed. So why couldn’t these doctors see this?

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Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

I dont know this for a fact, but Id bet a lot of money goes into The New York Times from pharmaceutical advertising. Theresno way The New York Times would publish that article today. The backlash would be too intense. Just turn on your TVhow many prescription drug commercials do you see? Thatsmost of the ads now. Its too big of an influence.

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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.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Australian Government doesn’t recognize that withdrawal from psychiatric drugs is anything to worry about for the overwhelming majority of patients, so doctors here know only what the pharmaceutical companies and the expert advisory bodies influenced by those companies want them to know, which is effectively nothing useful to the patient.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Most of the studies included in the review were not designed to detect withdrawal, they involved people who had used antidepressants for a few weeks or months only and they were mostly funded by pharmaceutical companies which have little interest in conducting a thorough assessment of withdrawal.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

That suit became the blueprint for the tribal opioid lawsuit that resulted in a $590m settlement in 2022 between the nation’s largest makers and distributors of opioids, including pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, and the nation’s 574 federally recognized tribes.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2024

and of course a host of pharmaceutical drugs. At the same time, people with high ACE scores are also more likely to do drug of all kindstobacco, marijuana, alcohol, opiates, mushrooms, etc., They are also more likely to be depressed. Theyre more likely to develop heart and lung diseases, cancers, and other health issues.

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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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Unfortunately, this leaves the PAR vulnerable to the profound influence the pharmaceutical industry has had, and continues to have, on clinicians’ concepts of “best options”. Not the right starting point for creating a good placebo effect.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

‘So, it had to convince people that they had an underlying disease and needed to take the drugs for an underlying disease.’” ’” Moncrieff has been instrumental in bringing to light the issues associated with psychiatric drugs and in stating why it’s so important that people know the truth.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

However, psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry, by skillfully manipulating the media, have convinced physicians and the public at large that these psychosocial factors in health are really brain diseases and there are drugs available that will effectively treat those psychosocial factors in physicians’ patients!

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Insel claimed that Whitaker writes that the psychiatric establishment, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry, has conspired to overmedicate and overtreat children and adults with disastrous results, and that not everyone buys this conspiracy theory. This is mendacious. Others are to blame, including the patients and society.

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Psychiatric News

JULY 4, 2024

The toxic pills distributed en masse by the pharmaceutical behemoths have led to more deaths in the U.S. That overlooks the primary role played by the psychiatric/pharmaceutical industry who took an innocent child and turned her into a mad woman. Friday See article HERE This child has been on medications since she was six years old.

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Reidbord's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Avanir Pharmaceuticals released Nuedexta in 2010 to treat pseudobulbar affect: involuntary emotional outbursts due to certain neurologic conditions or brain injury. I wondered whether to recommend Nuedexta for my elderly relative with worsening Alzheimers disease and daily spontaneous crying.

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Pharmaceuticals 52

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

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

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. A s we look back on the year and the decade, lets celebrate millions of people advocating for better outcomes in mental health care.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Moore: And of course, it was an open door then for the pharmaceutical industry, wasn’t it, with their massive marketing dollars. And I think she’s right that medical psychiatry and the pharmaceutical companies needed a vision like that. But there are a lot of factors I think that influenced that.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Everything that I had been told was part of an elaborate, profiteering form of mass human control by psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies, and governments. In my desperation and loneliness, I had been the perfect psychiatric victim.

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