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Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

Mad in America

Listen to the audio of the interview here. Did you find that the patients in any way fit neatly into these different diagnostic constructs? The pharmaceutical industry wanted to put a line between benzodiazepines and their new range of drugs. It caused quite a furor within the media and in psychiatry. Moncrieff: Yes.

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

Mad in America

That’s been the question posed to me in 2023 by interviewers such as Nick Fortino on “ Psychology Is ” and Mollie Adler on “Back from the Borderline. ” The psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex is fueled by the profits of Big Pharma, which have made a staggering amount of money from psychiatric drugs.

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Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants

Mad in America

Once again, a pharmaceutical had altered an essential part of my body. Countless supplements and over 30 different pharmaceuticals, I pretty much tried it all. The medical field has become complacent, prioritizing pharmaceutical profits, insurance companies agendas, and established narratives over patients well-being.

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Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and Gained Everything.”

Mad in America

Editor’s note: This is an interview conducted by Tiago Pires Marques, editor of Mad in Portugal. The interview was initially conducted on February 27, 2017, and then updated recently for publication on Mad in Portugal. The interview is an abbreviated version of the interview published in Mad in Portugal (1).

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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

Mad in America

Listen to the audio of the interview here. But society then became fully entrenched in the idea that mental health is a genetic or a chemical imbalance, which worked too well for pharmaceutical marketing. This creates an opportunity to work through them constructively. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Survivors and Families Working Together For Change: A New Project 

Mad in America

We all have lived in families of different constructions. Facilitators will be selected for formal training based on a written application and follow-up in-person or Zoom interview. For too long, the biochemical model has failed to fulfill its promises and has blocked the emergence and development of creative community-based services.

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Nine Actions to Mitigate Specialty Drug Costs

Inside Workplace Wellness

who owns the results of the test--the patient or the entity that paid for it) get ironed out, it will change how formularies are constructed. Does your PBM require providers to use NDC coding for Specialty Pharmaceuticals to improve monitoring and tracking of utilization? When the administrative and ownership dilemmas (i.e.,