Mad in America

JULY 30, 2025

Someone has really gained a lot of power with this neurobiological idea with the pharmaceutical industry, and they do not want to give up this power. Seikkula: Very early on in 1985, when we started to have this open meeting, we realized that we did not have enough education for the new model of working.

Hospitality

Mad in America

MAY 29, 2025

They write: A range of patient-directed interventions were tested, primarily written and verbal education. By revealing the wide variation in outcomes despite educational and behavioral interventions, the research points to the structural barriers that complicate efforts to reduce dependence on medications like benzodiazepines and z-drugs.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

JULY 22, 2025

A big pharmaceutical company? They’re too often after your attention, not about educating you. (2) To the researcher, the person is better, but the patient, if asked, might say they see no difference. But that will go in the “benefited” column. Oh, and who is paying for the study? Are they putting their thumb on the scale in some way?

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

JUNE 19, 2025

House Bill 25-1063 , approved in April 2025, represents one such effort, revealing the intersection of commercial interests, intellectual property concerns, and the pharmaceutical model’s influence on psychedelic policy. These grassroots efforts often emphasize reciprocity, accessibility, and genuine community engagement.

Psychedelic therapy

Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

Corruption by pharmaceutical companies. Little has been published on the subject in mainstream psychiatry journals and even less is part of the formal education process for medical students and psychiatry residents. Establishment psychiatry tolerates such criticism because this puts them in the same category as medicine in general.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

This is how misunderstood biology becomes politics: For example, if intelligence were strongly genetically determined, couldn’t education spending be cut? Regarding mental disorders, pharmaceutical treatments appear better if genetic causes are assumed.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

APRIL 23, 2025

I grew up in a time shortly after the second world war, where I had to deal with parents who were educated and had socialized during the Hitler fascism. So, Ilike many other peoplehad to suffer from an often humiliating and violent education, and, yeah, other people developed better than me. I didnt become this normal man.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JUNE 11, 2025

Most of the people who reach out to me about withdrawal are educated and have spent their lives taking and passing tests, using their big smart brains to succeed. I made the decision that I would rather feel withdrawal for the rest of my life than give one more cent to the pharmaceutical industry on this topic.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

was given a slap on the wristjust had to take some continuing education coursesand hes still practicing today. I dont know this for a fact, but Id bet a lot of money goes into The New York Times from pharmaceutical advertising. The second doctorthe rapid response team doctorwas very smooth, and very articulate. Thats my big ask.

Insurance

Child Mind Intitute

JULY 31, 2025

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Construction

Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

A Professor Emeritus in the Education Department at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Sugarman has spent decades critically interrogating the ways mainstream psychology reflects and reinforces the ideologies of neoliberalism , shaping how we understand identity, mental health, and human development. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 31, 2025

through profitable institutions like psychiatry, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies) and as an added benefit dampens the psychological responses that could subvert oppressive systems (e.g., State of higher education for LGBT people. economic exploitation or other forms of injustice). Development and Psychopathology , 1-31.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

AUGUST 9, 2025

I was just a copywriter working in pharmaceutical advertising. The rise of atypical antipsychotics was a business and marketing phenomenon—driven in part by a wave of pharmaceutical mergers in the 1990s. I didn’t set out to shape the field of psychiatry. The agency was in Midtown Manhattan. The client was Johnson & Johnson.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

APRIL 8, 2024

They looked at the largest, most influential clinical trials of antidepressants and found that almost half were so biased that they could be considered “seeding trials”—or studies that provide marketing materials for the pharmaceutical industry, not valid scientific data. Large trials are rare in the field of antidepressant research.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Those trapped there due to their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are controlled by pharmaceutical Americans and their cultish mindset hailing drugs at the expense of everything else. Of course, psychiatrists rarely say the quiet parts out loud; their status as pharmaceutical Americans could come into jeopardy if they did.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While the researcher had just completed his academic training to become a psychiatrist, he received no education at all on the withdrawal issues facing him, as well as more than 1 in 6 patients prescribed antidepressants. SSRI antidepressants and other blockbuster psychiatric drugs were released in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Self-awareness

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Together, we have created a movement that rejects coercion, force, and pharmaceutical propaganda and embraces informed consent, individual choice, and alternative ways to deal with distress. However, careless, discouraging drive-by comments on a social media platform may have unintended consequences, even if meant to be educational.

Self-awareness

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Contemporary education readily acknowledges this fact. Mr. Blue is highly educated. His undergrad is in Biology, he has a master’s in education and was trained as a lawyer. A 504 is a student education plan guaranteed to students with disabilities according to the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, section 504.

Education

Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2024

and of course a host of pharmaceutical drugs. Without this knowledge, any diagnosis is merely an educated guess, and any treatment risks being misguided. At the same time, people with high ACE scores are also more likely to do drug of all kindstobacco, marijuana, alcohol, opiates, mushrooms, etc.,

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Schatzberg has served as a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corcept Therapeutics, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals, Organon, ParkeDavis, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst.

Genetics and mental health

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While naturopathic doctors focus on natural therapies, their ability to prescribe pharmaceutical drugs depends on licensing, education, and state regulations. Their approach often includes herbal medicine, acupuncture, dietary counseling, and lifestyle coaching before turning to pharmaceuticals.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Education systems prioritize conformity over creativity, training individuals to fit into predetermined roles rather than question the status quo. Modern psychiatry, heavily influenced by pharmaceutical companies, often prioritizes medication over addressing root causes. This compromised reality infiltrates every aspect of life.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

High levels of childhood adversity, known to affect mental and physical health across the lifespan, are influenced by and contribute to problems such as severe violent crime, poverty, and lack of access to education. Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We were also challenging the prevailing mental illness narrative espoused by NAMI, most psychiatrists, and the pharmaceutical industry. We are engaged in a marketing effort to start a hearing voices education center that can reach high schools, universities, and mental health clinics.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Capitalist society is not based on happiness but on productivity, and psychiatry is part of this system, not least because of the pharmaceutical companies’ great influence over research. By reading and educating ourselves as much as we can about how both people and society work. When the whole society is dysfunctional?

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

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. Even if the harms are not properly recognized or understood till decades later.

Early intervention

Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I believe all of the existing health entities—providers, health insurance companies, the FDA, the pharmaceutical industry, and managed care—cannot and will not make needed changes to improve the quality of healthcare and to lower the cost as well. the drug company) for their science education.

Healthcare

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

I have had a similarly educative but terrifying experience. Rose: Educations are like that. You write that you worry about how psychedelics are getting co-opted by pharmaceutical industries. I came away realizing that that was pain that had been lurking under the surface of my experience since I was a little kid. Tell us more.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

OCTOBER 28, 2023

” It established its own press to publish books that would “provide much public education about the profession.” It created a division of publications and marketing to “deepen the medical identification of psychiatrists.”

Manufacturing

NAMI

JULY 23, 2024

This is one more reason why its so important that university leaders be educated about this challenge and equipped to provide greater support.) I vividly remember beginning my tenure in the pharmaceutical industry and learning much more about schizophrenia and available therapies.

Healthcare

Mad in America

AUGUST 21, 2024

He has collaborated with the NHS to develop national guidance for safe deprescribing for clinicians and has been commissioned by Health Education England to prepare a teaching module on how to safely stop antidepressants. I’m not at all; I’ve taken lots of psychotropics, sometimes with considerable success.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. The marketing of medical conditions has become a key plank of pharmaceutical industry marketing. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Doctors became hypnotized by the appearance of “science”, even if the literature they consulted was essentially pharmaceutical advertising. Such optimism would be disappointed by dwindling pharmaceutical progress in the later half of the century. When medications did cause harm, the doctors were completely blind to it.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Breaking a person’s bones continuously to see how long it would take before they would never heal again, for example, but Whitaker describesmany other unthinkable experimentsthat would make anyone with a conscience squirmat the depths of cruelty an educated person can inflict on another human being.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

In the last few years, I have met two educators in different parts of the country. Neither of them were medical themselves but both qualified teachers and had the academic credentials to be recognised as experts in education. Both were involved in teaching medical students and/or doctors.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Informed Consent Informed consent is the process in which a doctor educates a patient about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of a given procedure or intervention, including prescription drugs. They are also newsworthy and can be catalysts for social change if people find out about them, which I’m planning to help with in 2024.

Legal

Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2024

Vikram Patel and Paul Farmer have shown that you can train local people who have limited education to deliver psychotherapy, and their outcomes can be indistinguishable from those of psychologists and psychiatrists. Kleinman : It has to do with the development of an educated middle class globally.

Global mental health