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Labor trends to watch in 2024: A U.S. economic outlook and sector play-by-play

Work Life

But despite government incentives for green energy initiatives, financing that growth may be challenging amid high interest rates and material costs, which could lead to project delays. Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical companies have had a difficult year: the industry is grappling with softening demand for COVID-19-related products.

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

Mad in America

If the economy tanks or there is some huge disaster that traumatises loads of people, that could be great news for my job security! Davies describes a comprehensive UK government report on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry the House of Commons Health Select Committee Report on the Pharmaceutical Industry.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Obviously, it’s pretty easy to assail government bureaucracy, but how about industry?

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Why Japan wants its citizens to try a 4-day workweek

Work Life

The Japanese government first expressed support for a shorter working week in 2021, after lawmakers endorsed the idea. A recent government white paper on “karoshi,” the Japanese term that in English means “death from overwork, said Japan has at least 54 such fatalities a year, including from heart attacks.

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

Mad in America

Together we wrote an informational brochure about neuroleptics free from the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical industry. The Dutch government gave the money for the conference. E-book edition in 2025 (10) Lehmann, Peter (2015): Securing human rights in the psychiatric field by advance directives.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

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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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

As we have seen, many people who identify as neurodivergent want a formal diagnosis in order to secure adjustments (at school, at college, in work). More recently, prominent disability scholar Tom Shakespeare argued that the model has become increasingly rigidly applied over the years, and has now outlived its usefulness.