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When Narratives Clash: Unshrunk and The Cognitive Dissonance of the NY Times

Mad in America

Together, psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry successfully promoted this narrative to the public, leading to a great expansion of the psychiatric enterprise. I have reviewed your concerns and the reporting behind the sentence in question, and I have consulted with other editors here. Stout responded rather quickly.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. There was a report that their diagnostic categories were invalid and unreliable. Mad in America, by being able to report on what’s happening in the U.K.,

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

Mad in America

I n Part 1 , I looked at the longer-term inefficacy of ‘maintenance treatment’ with antipsychotics, and also at some ‘disappointing’ outcomes for ‘early intervention in psychosis’ (EIP). The rate of ‘non-responders’ to the drugs is generally reported to be around 30–35%.

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Reflections on the RADAR Study

Mad in America

Through the 1990s, I was dismayed that the influence of pharmaceutical marketing had seemed to suppress that idea, as polypharmacy and use of higher doses of drugs became part of accepted practice. They found that, despite the slower taper, there was still a higher risk of relapse in the taper group than in the maintenance group.

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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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Nine Actions to Mitigate Specialty Drug Costs

Inside Workplace Wellness

Chronic care maintenance drugs for some conditions have no cost share. Only 48% of employers receive reporting on drug expenses paid under medical according to a McKinsey Report. Can you get the kind of reporting that you want for your disease management vendor? Use of coupon cards is banned. You can register here.

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Honoring Men’s Health Month: Fueling Strength from the Inside Out

Workplace Wellness

While general dietary principles apply to everyone, men should pay attention to specific nutrients that support testosterone production, cardiovascular health, and muscle maintenance. Protein: The Building Block Protein is essential for muscle repair, hormone production, and immune function. Established 2004.

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