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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. By 2019, Big Pharma’s $6.6

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You Have the Legal Right to Informed Consent

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They are also newsworthy and can be catalysts for social change if people find out about them, which I’m planning to help with in 2024. With the success in Cheyenne, I’m now planning a 2024 Around-America Tour about antidepressant safety. The legal right to informed consent will be the most important message I deliver.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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It’s not surprising for a company that reportedly spent over $100 million on advertising in 2023, making it the country’s projected leading sponsor of podcasts. BetterHelp makes it easy to switch therapists if you are dissatisfied, without needing to inform the therapist you plan to make the change.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

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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.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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I dont know this for a fact, but Id bet a lot of money goes into The New York Times from pharmaceutical advertising. Those are the smaller things we do, but we have big plans and big goals. Theresno way The New York Times would publish that article today. The backlash would be too intense. Thatsmost of the ads now.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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Currently, Ferrell and a few of his former students are finalizing plans to launch RocketBox Media, a marketing agency and content creation lab. Two year later, Hobbs co-founded Hobbs/Herder Advertising, an industry interrupter and leader in real estate marketing. Veronica Figueroa. Realtor, mentor, speaker. Jodie King.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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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.