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The Three Ages of Treating Madness: Confinement, Conversation, Chemicals

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The messiness of human suffering was sorted into categories, each with a matching pharmaceutical solution. With insurance backing the shift, psychiatry secured dominancenot through healing, but through efficiency. The Pill Becomes the Cage By the 1990s, psychiatry had secured its second conquest. It was a triumph of efficiency.

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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

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Under neoliberalism, you become responsible for your healthcare, you must ensure your childs education, you must secure your financial future for retirement. These policies have very real, concrete effectslike the dismantling of welfare programs and the shifting of risk from governments to individuals.

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

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Together we wrote an informational brochure about neuroleptics free from the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical industry. GAMIAN receives a lot of money from pharmaceutical companies, for example, from GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly Benelux, Organon, Pfizer Janssen, Lundbeck, Otsuka, and Shire (8). Alternatives beyond psychiatry.

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Confessions of an Ad Writer: How I Helped Turn Atypical Antipsychotics into a Billion-Dollar Industry

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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.

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Treat Systems, Not Symptoms: Defending the Sanity of the Oppressed

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through profitable institutions like psychiatry, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies) and as an added benefit dampens the psychological responses that could subvert oppressive systems (e.g., The pathologizing of mental distress creates an opportunity for more economic growth and benefit to a select few (e.g.,

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FDA’s Artificial Intelligence is Supposed to Revolutionize Drug Approvals. It’s Making up Studies

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“We are using this technology already at HHS to manage health care data, perfectly securely, and to increase the speed of drug approvals,” he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee in June. The enthusiasm — among some, at least — was palpable.

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Where’s Your Visitor?

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And if you produce pharmaceuticals or electronics, you must keep those environments sterile. If a person who is not an employee enters your facility, you’ll need to know where they are at all times to ensure safety, security, and compliance. Safety Training Ensure all visitors know the proper safety protocols and security procedures.