Mad in America

APRIL 2, 2025

What began as a wonderful career combining my scientific knowledge with creative writing gradually revealed itself as something far more troubling: I was helping to manufacture “facts” about diseases and treatments that would shape medical practice for decades. reporting receiving treatment for depression in 2023.The

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

at the time of the study, indicating affiliations with pharmaceutical companies that manufacture antidepressants, including those under investigation. Researchers surveyed 900 patients aged 18 to 64 who were taking antidepressants and categorized them based on their past and present use. Additionally, Anita H.

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Mad in America

MAY 23, 2025

The troubled teen industry (TTI) is a network of therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness camps, and religious reform programs that claim to treat mental health struggles in teens. The TTI uses psychological persuasion tactics to capitalize on the guilt parents feel when their children face mental health challenges.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

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