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Placebo Effect—Not Antidepressants—Responsible for Depression Improvement

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The Current Study Back in 2003, the NIMH-sponsored Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS) included 439 adolescents aged 12-17 who met DSM-IV criteria for depression. There were four treatment arms, including fluoxetine (Prozac) only; cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) only; fluoxetine and CBT; and placebo.

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Are Antidepressants Weakening Women’s Bones?

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This percentage peaked in 2003 at more than 62% of all prescriptions before falling to less than 52% between 2017 and 2020. Between 1999 and 2020, SSRIs, tricyclics, and phenylpiperazines decreased as a percentage of all antidepressant prescriptions. SSRIs comprised just over 56% of antidepressant drugs in 1999. between 2017 and 2020.

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Real World Evidence and Cannabis Psychosis

Real Psychiatry

Picador, 2003: 23. People with those impairments have a much harder time stopping cannabis use often despite very negative consequences. That pattern of behavior is always a good reason to avoid intoxicants of any kind. George Dawson, MD, DFAPA References: 1: Booth M. Cannabis A History.

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In Defense of Open Dialogue Research

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Ethical Human Sciences and Services 2003; 5(3):163-182. . ↩ Seikkula J, Alakare B, Aal­tonen J, Holma J, Rasinkangas A, & Lehtinen V. Open Dialogue approach: Treatment principles and preliminary results of a two-year follow-up on first episode schizophrenia.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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In 1990-92, 12% of the US population aged 18–54 years received treatment for emotional problems, which went up to 20% in 2001–2003. 697 One of the chapters in my book about organised crime in the drug industry was “Psychiatry, the Drug Industry’s Paradise”.

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2025 Election Begins March 1

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

in Biology. From there, I moved down to New Orleans to attend medical school at the Tulane University School of Medicine in Louisiana. My experiences during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 were formative and lead me to a career in Psychiatry.

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

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(Original work published 1992) Kupfer, D. 2013, May 3). Chair of DSM-5 Task Force discusses future of mental health research. News release.] American Psychiatric Association. link] Masson, J. The assault on truth: Freuds suppression of the seduction theory (Original work published 1984). Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Moncrieff, J.