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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

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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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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

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What’s concerning is that despite the significant impact of sexual dysfunction on patients’ quality of life, many did not discuss these issues with their healthcare providers. at the time of the study, indicating affiliations with pharmaceutical companies that manufacture antidepressants, including those under investigation.

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

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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

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Szasz and the Liberation of the “Mental Patient”

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It is not uncommon to come across rightfully indignant comments from people who have been ascribed such psychotic labels that “Having bipolar disorder doesn’t excuse you from being a criminal!” One may say that cure is often less profitable than permanent customers in all of healthcare, which is of course an issue in itself.