Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

Then, probably the same year it’s picked up by Eli Lilly, the makers of Prozac, and other pharmaceutical companies who come along with their SSRIs, and they breathe new life into it and recruit this idea, which has already been disproven, to market antidepressants. They marketed this new range of drugs as SSRIs. This is not proven.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 10, 2025

This effort eventually culminated into the creation of a research document, suggesting that neuroimmune processes and related downstream mechanisms may play a role in PSSD. The current version of the document showcasing all of these findings and our discussion of their implications can be found here. I started freaking out.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

APRIL 25, 2025

Along the way, in a valley facing the railway, I wrote an impromptu story on the blank pages of my passporta document now obsolete in the scenario I had newly conceived. With samples from a pharmaceutical company eager to gain a new client, Dr. Y also prescribed a benzodiazepine to improve sleep and ease symptoms.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

JULY 29, 2025

This statement underlines what has been documented many times before, that Cochrane is too beholden to the drug industry. Evidence b(i)ased medicine – selective reporting from studies sponsored by pharmaceutical industry: review of studies in new drug applications. BMJ 2016;352:i65; Melander H, Ahlqvist-Rastad J, Meijer G, et al.

Anxiety disorders

Mad in America

JULY 24, 2025

Weeks earlier, the US Food and Drug Administration, the division of HHS that oversees vast portions of the American pharmaceutical and food system, had unveiled Elsa, an artificial intelligence tool intended to dramatically speed up drug and medical device approvals. The enthusiasm — among some, at least — was palpable.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Toxicity That Psychiatry Refuses to Acknowledge Mainstream psychiatry acknowledges that antipsychotics can cause neurotoxicitytardive dyskinesia is a well-documented condition. The medical community is comfortable acknowledging persistent brain injury from recreational drugs, yet remains silent when it comes to pharmaceuticals.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

Of the 4,041 patients who entered the trial, only 108 had remitted and then stayed well and in the study to its one-year end, a documented stay-well rate of 3%. The public now had easy access to source documents that told of how the STAR*D investigators had deviated from the protocol to produce their inflated 67% remission rate.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

We add: ‘The three largest online surveys included in our review document the experiences of hundreds of people who have taken antidepressants for between 1 year and several years (ie, typical antidepressant users).’ The typical antidepressant user, however, takes these drugs for several years.’

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Moore: The last couple of questions are related to the pharmaceutical industry. Thank you to all of you who took the time and trouble to send in your questions.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Court documents revealed that, in 1999, two such US psychiatrists, Charles Nemeroff and Alan Schatzberg, published a psychiatry textbook that was ghostwritten by GlaxoSmithKline. Those who shape psychiatry are often deeply corrupt, 7,533 and they often “forget” to declare their conflicts of interest against the rules.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

However, it is documented that ‘unblinding’ in these trials is common.** Given the current level of neuroscientific understanding of causality in the brain and nervous system, it seems pretty much inevitable that exposure to pharmaceutical psychotropics will produce adverse consequences.

Early intervention

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Yet psychiatry is happy to accept your patronage, the pharmaceutical industry is happy to keep pressing pills, teachers are content to pat themselves on the back for a job well done, and students are elated to receive a performance-enhancing drug. But the benefits go far beyond the chemical advantages of the drug. What are its benefits?

Education

Real Psychiatry

MAY 30, 2025

The usual reasons given is that this is the best way for psychiatrists to make money and/or it is a sign that pharmaceutical companies have manipulated psychiatrists into providing care this way. A common stereotype promoted in the press is the idea that people are seen for medications only.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

As I documented in CounterPunch earlier this year, it is now mainstream to acknowledge that: (1) psychiatry’s treatment outcomes are “abysmal” and “not getting any better”; (2) the serotonin imbalance theory of depression is untrue; and (3) psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, the DSM , is scientifically invalid. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

Technology

Mad in America

JUNE 20, 2024

The therapy to which they referred was entirely pharmaceutical—it was always a failure to improve with medication. It is undeniable that it has been helpful for the pharmaceutical industry, which continues to grow yearly, and as of 2022, the antidepressant market has reached $17.02 billion worldwide.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

While the ongoing logistics of maintaining such a network have proved challenging, one such successful effort in 2006 was documented in The Wall Street Journal. He also refuses to give me any documents … and he has had absolutely zero contact with me for the vast majority of the matters he has ‘represented’ me on.”

Legal

Mad in America

AUGUST 14, 2024

Or perhaps the rejection of Lykos’ drug reveals something else: the powerful influence of the traditional pharmaceutical lobby at the cost of the upstart psychedelic industry. That is surely a problem, but it’s also a documented problem for other drugs. We may never know. Where Might This All Lead?

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Being a former NIMH director, Insel should have told his readers about the poor long-term outcomes of treatment with psychiatric drugs, as documented in expensive and prestigious research funded by the NIMH, e.g. CATIE and STAR*D. Nothing in Insel’s narrative would harm psychiatry’s guild interests or pharmaceutical interests.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place. A focus on depression in Australia corresponded with similar campaigns in the US and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy.

Biopsychosocial model

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

However, psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry, by skillfully manipulating the media, have convinced physicians and the public at large that these psychosocial factors in health are really brain diseases and there are drugs available that will effectively treat those psychosocial factors in physicians’ patients!

Healthcare

Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

For these residents, their ART booklet, provided by the local ART center is their only legal identity, which makes availing of any form of government mandated “care” other than their dose of antiretroviral medication difficult, as all such facilities now require possessing a national identity document (the AADHAR card). and Trundle, C.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

While CPRD records accurately document antipsychotic prescriptions, there is no data on adherence to these prescriptions. A Huffington Post expos revealed that pharmaceutical companies have aggressively marketed antipsychotics to vulnerable populations, including the elderly, for off-label usesdespite evidence of serious harm.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

million to consumers after the FTC documented that it routinely released personal information to other websites. On one side are academics who conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the same approach pharmaceutical companies use to establish whether drugs are effective. The company agreed to refund $7.8

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Depression and anxiety were proof that you had a mind deep and dark enough to need pharmaceuticals to keep the demons at bay. And that’s when it hit me: I wasn’t just there to document these places—I was on my own twisted journey through the seven stages of belief. In this, they were ahead of me.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The editors say in their forewords to my 2013 book that I can be trusted but, more importantly, I have tried to document what I say so you can make up your own mind. Many books have documented that the psychiatric leaders have given up rational thinking for the benefits they acquire themselves from supporting a totally sick system.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. CBT helped her identify and challenge negative thoughts.

Resilience and coping

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Thats not a leap people often makefrom philosophical psychology to critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and medicalization. She was deeply involved in critical psychiatry and critiques of the pharmaceutical industry. Karter: Well come back to phenomenology and theory, but I want to ask about your connection to critical psychiatry.

Genetics and mental health

ADDitude

APRIL 11, 2025

In its founding documents, the MAHA Commission, chaired by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. If they find that pharmaceutical companies are lying to us, then please, by all means, take the medications out of production and find us alternatives that really do help! Kennedy, Jr., We should not be afraid of that.

Nutrition and mood

Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

What is at stake here with this discussion is the billion-dollar business that the pharmaceutical companies make with their unproven myth that mental illness results from a chemical imbalance in the brain that can only be corrected by taking antipsychotic drugs. Exile is particularly beneficial for Americans who are recovering from psychosis.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Indeed, there are numerous documented cases that show a link between SSRIs and school violence. Guptas skepticism about Robert F Kennedy Jr.s veracity on a number of health-related subjects.However, on the specific subject of SSRI antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil, and their link to school (and other) shootings, RFK Jr. has a point.

Self-awareness

Mad in America

JUNE 3, 2025

From Patients for Affordable Drugs : “The influence of pharmaceutical companies on patient advocacy organizations is well-documented.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

JULY 7, 2025

The suppliers of escitalopram (Lundbeck) and imipramine (AFT Pharmaceuticals) refused to comply. It was real and documented in the placebo-controlled studies. Horton has himself stated that “Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry.” What should we do?

Mental health policy