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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

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.

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June in Review: Updates on the Psychiatric Treatment Pipeline

Psychiatric Times

In the wake of this decision, the Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance, in collaboration with the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists, has announced the upcoming development of a set of clinical, evidence-based courses designed to provide education and guidance for clozapine prescribing.

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How the Troubled Teen Industry Turns Pain Into Profit

Mad in America

of a surveyed population in Southern California reported that they associate mental illness with dangerousness , mainly linking conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder to violent behavior.As Adding to this, over 47.2% Almost as if I were contagious. Deception is a deeply entrenched part of how the TTI operates.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

Mad in America

Bristol Myers, along with the many other manufacturing plants located in the surrounding area, helped to grow and strengthen our local economy. By the mid-2000s, because of cheaper costs to manufacture penicillin in foreign countries, the plant downsized considerably. The civil case was settled in January of 2011 for $2.5