Mad in America

JUNE 9, 2025

This pathologisation of suffering fuels a constant expansion of psychiatric categories, feeding the pharmaceutical industry and reinforcing the notion that there is a pill for every pain. Common human experiences — sadness, anxiety, grief, fatigue, disillusionment — are increasingly framed as mental disorders.

Healthcare

Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

Then, probably the same year it’s picked up by Eli Lilly, the makers of Prozac, and other pharmaceutical companies who come along with their SSRIs, and they breathe new life into it and recruit this idea, which has already been disproven, to market antidepressants. They marketed this new range of drugs as SSRIs. This is not proven.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

JUNE 5, 2025

Alienists the forerunners of modern psychiatristsoversaw confinement not to cure, but to control. Restraints tightened, bodies weakened, and minds dulledall in the name of control. It was a radical idea, not because it was proven right, but because it directly challenged the methods of control that relied on restraint and punishment.

Insurance

Mad in America

JULY 9, 2025

Eventually, my life just spun out of control. I got into this headspace where I was like, I will not give the pharmaceutical industry one more dollar after what they did to me. I had to control everything. I mean, how can you call yourself “clean” when you’re taking Lyrica every morning and night, plus Zyprexa? It kept me alive.

Cleaning

Mad in America

MARCH 8, 2025

He also sent me to colleagues who had special knowledge of specific areas such as having a control group who did not have the rehab program, as well as scales and schedules to use in interviews, and which statistics to use. He worked with me every Friday afternoon over the next year on methodology and design.

Interviewing

Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

In addition, the test subjects would have to be kept in controlled environments, like in a zoo. Regarding mental disorders, pharmaceutical treatments appear better if genetic causes are assumed. The consequences for people’s health would be dramatic. This is all forbidden for ethical reasons.

Influencing

Mad in America

APRIL 25, 2025

With samples from a pharmaceutical company eager to gain a new client, Dr. Y also prescribed a benzodiazepine to improve sleep and ease symptoms. Tears trickled down my cheeks, as if a dam had burst within me, not reflecting my emotions, but an automatic response controlled by the compounds in my brain.

Problem-Solving

Mad in America

MAY 10, 2025

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.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

Corruption by pharmaceutical companies. However, the major thrust of Delanos Unshrunk is that she was damaged not by what establishment psychiatry would consider malpractice or even sub-standard treatment, but by its standard of care delivered by its most prestigious practitioners, and she was damaged by its paradigm of care.

Reporting

Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

The supposed freedom of choice conceals deeper forms of control. You identify two main drivers behind this rise: first, the explosion of pharmaceutical advertising in the 1990s, and second, the growing expectation that we must constantly market and network ourselves as prerequisites for a successful life. The result?

Government

Mad in America

MAY 29, 2025

Some studies reported a significant difference between the intervention and control groups, and others did not. All studies reported BZRA cessation following the intervention; however, the proportion of participants who stopped their BZRA varied widely.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

APRIL 23, 2025

Together we wrote an informational brochure about neuroleptics free from the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical industry. These are all approaches which are user-led, or survivor-controlled, or led by psychiatrists with a humanistic approach. It has to do with the community psychiatric systemthe control is bigger.

Interviewing

Great Place to Work

JUNE 4, 2025

Burnout from change overload Dizzying organizational change can lead to employee burnout , due to increased stress, limited control of their environment, lack of clarity, and worklife imbalance. The result meant their HR team could spend less time on admin and had more time on developing and coaching their people.

Leadership

Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

I encourage everyone to read itit gives a powerful overview of how quickly things spiraled out of control. I dont know this for a fact, but Id bet a lot of money goes into The New York Times from pharmaceutical advertising. Siem: The New York Times published a major article on February 2, 2013, detailing Richards story.

Insurance

Mad in America

JULY 19, 2025

Global pharmaceutical revenue is about $1.6 The minimising begins in the title, where they use the term Discontinuation Symptoms, invented by the pharmaceutical industry to create the impression that the phenomenon in question is somehow different from, and lesser than, withdrawal effects. about $80 billion).

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

JUNE 30, 2025

It helps surgeons navigate tissue, supports recovery after stroke, enables control of prosthetic limbs, and monitors epilepsy with remarkable accuracy. Yet Lashley had already proven what these real lives show every day: the brain isn’t a control panel. Because pharmaceutical companies need targets. Because they sell textbooks.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

JULY 28, 2025

The pharmaceutical industry continues to reap profits not only from the forced medication of poor people, but also from the development of expensive drugs and personalized care for the wealthy with addiction and mental health diagnoses. Acadia Pharmaceuticals prompts consumers to “Elevate Life.”

Government

Mad in America

JUNE 11, 2025

I made the decision that I would rather feel withdrawal for the rest of my life than give one more cent to the pharmaceutical industry on this topic. Anxiety and OCD are about control — wanting to control anything. I didn’t know how long it was going to last. At the time, there wasn’t much information available.

Coaching

Mad in America

AUGUST 9, 2025

I was just a copywriter working in pharmaceutical advertising. The rise of atypical antipsychotics was a business and marketing phenomenon—driven in part by a wave of pharmaceutical mergers in the 1990s. I didn’t set out to shape the field of psychiatry. The agency was in Midtown Manhattan. The client was Johnson & Johnson.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

JULY 29, 2025

1 The Cochrane authors had not listed any conflicts in relation to drug firms, but they did not tell their readers that the studies they included, 37 placebo-controlled trials (12,226 participants), were heavily influenced by drug firms. They are on the second-last of the review’s 206 pages. Int J Risk Saf Med 2021;32:87-99.

Reporting

Mad in America

JULY 31, 2025

through profitable institutions like psychiatry, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies) and as an added benefit dampens the psychological responses that could subvert oppressive systems (e.g., References Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). economic exploitation or other forms of injustice). 2022, June 17).

Healthcare

Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

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) & Trans.),

Controlling

All Work

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Currently, Ballinger is part of a team ensuring that a major pharmaceutical company’s workspaces embody inclusive design practices and provide an equitable experience for all employees. Neighborhoods can also be used to both foster community and give the individual a sense of ownership and control.

Catering

Mad in America

APRIL 8, 2024

They looked at the largest, most influential clinical trials of antidepressants and found that almost half were so biased that they could be considered “seeding trials”—or studies that provide marketing materials for the pharmaceutical industry, not valid scientific data. Large trials are rare in the field of antidepressant research.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Those trapped there due to their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are controlled by pharmaceutical Americans and their cultish mindset hailing drugs at the expense of everything else. The individual cannot directly control when they can escape and dare not step out of line in this process.

Pharmaceutical

Vantage Circle

MAY 10, 2021

All of which will imply how the pharmaceutical industry is likely to conduct its business in the near future. With the constant layoffs, corporate mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical market, and rise in the compensation standards, many businesses have also adopted an outsourcing business model. Development in Technology.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

JANUARY 15, 2024

One pharmaceutical journal berated some managed care companies for not paying for Viagra for drug-induced sexual dysfunction. However, I doubt that a pharmaceutical company would market Viagra as a treatment for depression; to do so one would have to diagnose depression as caused by an “insufficient blood supply to the genitals”!

Healthcare

The Receptionist

AUGUST 13, 2024

Depending on what you produce, you may also have clean rooms, climate-controlled areas, or storage for hazardous materials. And if you produce pharmaceuticals or electronics, you must keep those environments sterile. This might include forklifts, balers, cranes, or others, in addition to the production line machinery.

Manufacturing

Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Because there is an anti-psychiatry movement saying we function more as a means of social control than as medical doctors.” Why is it threatened?

Pharmaceutical

Work Life

AUGUST 15, 2024

This anguished remark came as a newly promoted pharmaceutical executive read through an assessment report detailing scathing feedback from his team and colleagues. They can also reveal potential derailers like insensitivity, lack of impulse control, or arrogance. “I honestly don’t know how I became this person.”

Pharmaceutical

Workplace Insight

MARCH 25, 2024

In the UK, pharmaceutical firm ICI bought the dilapidated hall and 350 acres of surrounding parkland at Alderley Park in Cheshire in 1950 to create its own bucolic campus, which included farmland and ponds alongside the research buildings. More greenhouse than landscape.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

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. Cosgrove: Yes.

Interviewing

Mad in America

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Early in my career, leading academic psychiatrists were promoting the idea that many people were on higher doses than was required to control symptoms and reduce the risk of relapse. This observation is difficult to verify in a controlled study.

Pharmaceutical

Work Life

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In Tony’s work as a leadership coach, he worked with a pharmaceutical CEO who realized that her company’s long-term vision had become blurred. Leaders need to cultivate humility and resilience by acknowledging that not everything is in their control.

Leadership

Work Life

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

I was working with veterans with trauma, and we were trying to figure out some interventions we could use to help them, because many traditional interventions like therapy or pharmaceutical interventions were not helping all of the veterans. Many of them were not liking the treatments or were not responding to them.

Pharmaceutical

Work Life

JANUARY 7, 2024

“Seligman’s research said it’s more powerful than pharmaceuticals and can keep you from being anxious, stressed, and depressed for as long as six months,” says Iannarino. “You’ll feel like you have greater control of what’s going on in your life.” ”

Pharmaceutical

McKensey

JULY 23, 2025

1 Analysis considers all transactions above $100 million made between 2018 and 2023, excluding acquisitions of minority stakes (meaning that there was no change in control) and physical assets (meaning that the target company didn’t involve common stock or the target was a physical asset, such as a cellphone tower or a piece of real estate).

Manufacturing