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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

Mad in America

It doesnt seem beyond the realm of possibility that pharmaceutical companies would deliberately disrupt the conversation in similar ways, and indeed James Davies in his book Sedated gives evidenced examples of them selectively publishing research data on the efficacy of their drugs (Davies, 2022). Davies, 2013, p.30)

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 4)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. One pharmaceutical journal berated some managed care companies for not paying for Viagra for drug-induced sexual dysfunction. Celexa and the notorious antidepressant drug, double-blind, placebo-controlled treatment study of child and adolescent major depression.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. ” —attributed to Mark Twain What are some of the sources of much of the poor quality and costly healthcare in the U.S. healthcare (17% of GDP and climbing). The Peterson Center of Healthcare reports that the U.S. healthcare bill is only exceeded by the approximately $3.8

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HR Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industries

Vantage Circle

All of which will imply how the pharmaceutical industry is likely to conduct its business in the near future. How are they going to meet patients’ needs and healthcare systems extensively? It pressurizes the healthcare system, both in terms of nature and scale of the demand and healthcare costs and drug development.

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What makes for a ‘good’ severance package?

Work Life

Credit Suisse also paid for six months of his $800 monthly healthcare. Besides payment and restrictive clauses like non-disparagement, there are potential benefits, like continued healthcare coverage via COBRA. Though severance agreements differ by industry and company, most include the same basic components.

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

Mad in America

He maintains an active program of research in the pharmacoepidemiology of controlled substances including opioids, cannabinoids, and other controlled substances, behavioral neurology methods development and quantitative medical ethics. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. I have two lines of research.

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

Mad in America

A finding derived from double-blind randomized control trials (RCTs), the so called ‘gold standard’ for medical research. 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.