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Mad in America
OCTOBER 21, 2023
In 2021, New York Times reporter Benedict Carey, after covering psychiatry for twenty years, concluded that psychiatry had done “little to improve the lives of the millions of people living with persistent mental distress. In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. Suicide rates have risen by about 30% since 2000.
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.
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Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
” Although sexual dysfunction is labeled as a “side effect”, numerous patients report issues far persisting withdrawal. That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold
Mad in America
JUNE 13, 2024
When I reported brain zaps, the psychiatrist had no idea what to suggest, other than reduce the dose slowly. The psychiatrist was worried when I reported that I wasn’t sleeping well. We live in a culture which is heavily influenced by social media and the advertising industry. But I was only drug free for a couple of years.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 30, 2023
In this blog, he discusses the failures of the publicly funded long-term studies, CATIE and STAR*D, and psychiatry’s fraudulent reporting of these results. In their disclosure statements, 10 of STAR*D’s authors reported receiving money from Forest, Lundbeck’s partner in the United States.
Mad in America
JANUARY 6, 2024
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. On that platform and in news reports, complaints range from descriptions of the annoying—therapists who don’t show up or arrive late—to destructive experiences.
Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
In 2000, JAMA reported the US yearly estimated iatrogenic deaths: 12,000 caused by unnecessary surgeries; 27,000 caused by medication errors and other errors in hospitals; 80,000 hospital/healthcare facility acquired infections; and 106,000 “non-error” adverse effects of medication. had no clinically significant benefit over a placebo.”
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