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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). accepting personal or office gifts or corporate donations from industry.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

Mad in America

In addition, since STAR*D’s publication, the prescription of these drugs is generating and exacerbating depression more than alleviating it. We showed how STAR*D’s authors had manipulated the data to manufacture fraudulent results. In 2010, I was one of the authors of a published critique of the STAR*D study’s reported findings.