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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

Mad in America

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

Mad in America

The article supplies ‘evidence’ for this allegedly pleasurable targeting of oppressed minority groups in the form of serious and extensive misrepresentation of the work of Lucy Johnstone, James Davies, Joanna Moncrieff, Sami Timimi and others. We explore this issue further in our final section.

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Lab rats – how the UK life sciences sector is struggling to find space to work

Workplace Insight

This lack of supply is acting as a brake on the UK Government’s dream of making the country a “science superpower”. It is striking how weighted Ireland’s export figures are to the life sciences, medical and pharmaceutical industries craved by the UK Just how significant is apparent when comparing the UK with Ireland.

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A Psycho-Spiritual Journey

Mad in America

In Australia, it was easy enough in those days to obtain a disability pension with subsistence-level government accommodation and an ongoing supply of medication. Over time, with the aid of government funding, Grow was taken over by so-called professionals. Grow also triggered an interest for me in philosophy.