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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics.

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Testosterone and ADHD in Men: Is There a Link?

ADDitude

Similar results were found in a 2024 systematic review of 55 studies investigating the role of pubertal hormones on mental health conditions. The review concluded that most of the studies that exist on hormones and mental health outcomes were at high risk for bias and involved many confounding factors. J Health Soc Behav.

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

Mad in America

A review of four newer studies, from 2008 to 2011, estimated that there were over 400,000 drug deaths in US hospitals. As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. Deadly medicines and organised crime: How big pharma has corrupted health care.