Advertising Influencing Pharmaceutical 
Mad in America
APRIL 2, 2025
The biomedical model is so entrenched in our culture that it has become gospelpreached in doctor’s offices, reinforced by advertising, and accepted as unquestioned truth, even though its been debunked. As a former pharmaceutical advertising writer, I not only witnessed the explosive growth in antidepressant drugs, I contributed to it.
Mad in America
MARCH 22, 2025
The journal continued to be in good hands, and thus one of the few journals that was receptive to research findings that belied the narrative of therapeutic progress that the psychiatric guild and pharmaceutical companies have been promoting for decades. He noted too the reluctance of the field to consider this possibility.
Mad in America
APRIL 24, 2025
They found that the true remission rate was 35%, half the rate of the advertised 67%. I fear that the American populace has been coercedby pervasive pharmaceutical marketing and academic psychiatrys obfuscations into believing a compelling but dubious tale about the nature of antidepressants.
Mad in America
MARCH 26, 2025
Third, his journal told of the corrupting influence of pharmaceutical money on the creation of psychiatric diagnoses and drug trials. Whitaker: There are those two funding sources, open access where people have to pay, or journals where they’re basically funded by pharmaceutical advertisements.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 21, 2023
H ow can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its repeated scientific failures and lack of progress—now even acknowledged by key members of the psychiatric establishment and the mainstream media? How can psychiatry retain its authority and influence despite its scientific failures? By 2019, Big Pharma’s $6.6
Mad in America
OCTOBER 18, 2023
For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. The marketing of medical conditions has become a key plank of pharmaceutical industry marketing. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products.
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. We live in a culture which is heavily influenced by social media and the advertising industry.
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