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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.

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

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at the time of the study, indicating affiliations with pharmaceutical companies that manufacture antidepressants, including those under investigation. Service users were excluded from the present research if they had received a diagnosis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or delusional disorder. Additionally, Anita H.

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How the Troubled Teen Industry Turns Pain Into Profit

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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. I never had a single conversation with this man.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Four)

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There was no placebo group, and all patients started on citalopram, manufactured by Lundbeck, which was motivated by horrendously erroneous claims of citalopram’s “absence of discontinuation symptoms” and its “safety” in elderly patients. 5 Whitaker is a careful researcher and his book is highly convincing.

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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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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!” They are and always have been in full control of their actions. or “Schizophrenic people aren’t inherently prone to violence!”