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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

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This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray). Furthermore, many adverse effects of antidepressants are uncontroversial.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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They claim the study found the drugs to be effective treatments for depression, leading to remission in 67% of patients, but this is false; that finding was inflated by various types of research misconduct , even including imaginary remission rates from people who dropped out of the study.