Mad in America

JULY 26, 2025

The Potential Mental Healthcare Impacts of the Megabill President Reagan invented the term “social safety net” to defend proposed cuts to New Deal and other programs in the 1980s by asserting a now-familiar promise: That such cuts would not impact the “social safety net” for Americans “truly in need.” Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in the House.

Healthcare

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In a recent article , however, I examined the research-base, finding that outcome monitoring is less helpful than is generally thought, and how its growing predominance can be attributed to sociopolitical influences in our healthcare systems.

Healthcare

Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

What’s more, the notion of fighting a health condition implies that success depends on individual effort and resources, which can marginalise those with limited access to healthcare resources, including the uninsured or underinsured. Describing drugs as a ‘weapons’ or ‘magic bullets’ encourages more aggressive treatment strategies.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The many erroneous and misleading statements I found cannot be explained by the advent of new, important knowledge, as the publication dates for the textbooks were recent, from 2016 to 2021. In evidence-based healthcare, we do not use interventions that do more harm than good, which psychiatry does. They are not medical diseases.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

The report concluded that the regulatory agency (now The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, or MHRA) had become too close to the industry, with common policy objectives, agreed processes, frequent contact, consultation and interchange of staff. Davies, 2013, p.30) Oreskes, N., & Conway, E. Bloomsbury Press.

Trauma and the brain

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 23, 2025

Role of Pediatricians in Diagnosing ADHD Pediatricians serve as frontline healthcare providers for ADHD diagnosis and treatment, positioned at the initial point of contact alongside schools where children first present with concerning symptoms. Challenges in Diagnosing ADHD EP: 5. Impact of ADHD on Patient’s Quality of Life EP: 6.

Genetics and mental health

Lightwork

MARCH 19, 2025

Scientists theorize that isotretinoin might affect brain chemistry by: Altering neurotransmitter levels Impacting hormone regulation Affecting brain cell formation Healthcare providers monitor patients closely through regular check-ups and mental health screenings during treatment.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

A 2022 large study , lead-authored by Marc Stone at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, examined 232 drug-company trials on antidepressants submitted to the FDA between 1979 and 2016. In evaluating any drug treatment, scientists also examine whether its benefits outweigh its adverse effects.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2024

In this interview, Kleinman explores critical issues facing modern healthcare. healthcare, and offers insightful reflections on the global mental health movement. The system of healthcare today in America is toxic to good care. That is the role that the healthcare system forces them into. That’s deeply disturbing.

Global mental health

Mad in America

JUNE 26, 2024

They can exist either within or outside of traditional healthcare systems. But within the context of mental health and the mental healthcare system, it’s unusual, isn’t it? You know, we’ve been doing this research since 2016. Single-session interventions are designed to make the most of every moment.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

APRIL 9, 2024

According to the FDA, ‘ healthcare providers generally may prescribe the drug for an unapproved use when they judge that it is medically appropriate for their patient ’ ( FDA, 2018 ). The big difference between my 8-week and my 20-week taper My 2012 ‘gradual’ taper was part of an N=1 experiment published in 2016.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

” I promised him and kept that promise until 2016, when I was coming off Latuda and he prescribed the same opioid. Having a knowledgeable healthcare team is important, but the work of recovery is ultimately mine—I’d learned my lesson. He knew it worked for me, and I was so suicidal he had no other option.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

51] Can anything be worse than this in healthcare? Psykiatrisk Tidsskrift 2016;Nov 20. [31] London: John Blake; 2016. [48] In my book about organised crime in the drug industry, one of the chapters is, Pushing children into suicide with happy pills. [51] Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri 2023. [29] 29] Gøtzsche PC. 47] Newman KB.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 18, 2024

The skit conveys some examples of state-of-the-art healthcare in England, circa 1303 A.D.: A 2016 New York Times article, “ An Old Idea, Revived: Starve Cancer to Death ,” tells of modern cancer researches realizing that Otto Warburg was correct that cancer is primarily a metabolic condition. This is the story of one such barber.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. is the only developed nation with for-profit healthcare. Suffering is the main reason people seek healthcare. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

Healthcare

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

2016 Dec;49(12):1045-1057. Epub 2016 Nov 15. Treatment recommendations for healthcare providers. The risk of eating disorders comorbid with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Eat Disord. doi: 10.1002/eat.22643. PMID: 27859581. 34 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Eating disorders

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Dubey, 2018; Egan, 2018; Ejaredar & Hagen, 2014; Farnsworth, 2016; Grant, 2006; Greer, 2016; Halle & Nelson, 2019; Harris, 2023; Larkin, 2022; Life After ECT Inc., 2025; MindFreedom International, 2016; Murphy, 2021; Ogles, 2023; Oppenheim, 2022; Oprison, 2021; Read, 2022; Read et al., 2018; Life After ECT Inc.,

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 16, 2025

But in Denmark, after many years with a steadily increasing sales curve, the number of children and adolescents in treatment with depression pills decreased by 41%, from 2010 to 2016. Whistleblower in healthcare. 6 In the same period, the number of children in treatment in Norway increased by 40% and in Sweden by 82% (see figure).

Aging and mental health