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. Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? Moore: The last couple of questions are related to the pharmaceutical industry.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer. Without health insurance, known locally as medical aid, people living in South Africa are only guaranteed care for serious mental illness. Linda 1 is a 20-year-old Zimbabwean refugee living in South Africa. No, she says. Theres nobody there.

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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.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Cost & Quality After a twenty year or so review of the health outcome literature, combined with my clinical experience as a psychologist and an arranger of behavioral healthcare for large self-insured employers, the above words of wisdom by Mark Twain are certainly relevant to both the quality and cost problems in healthcare today.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Pharmaceutical companies, exerting their influence on academic psychiatry through lucrative honoraria and advisory board payments, have clearly played a role in how antidepressant risks have been presented. This notable gap has raised some suspicion that the necessary research has not merely been overlooked but deliberately avoided.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We were also challenging the prevailing mental illness narrative espoused by NAMI, most psychiatrists, and the pharmaceutical industry. I felt that facilitators needed to be paid not only as a symbol of their value to their community and their work, but by paying facilitators it helped insure the group’s longevity.

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Real Psychiatry

MAY 9, 2025

health and wellness industry compared with the total pharmaceutical industry value of $602B. In this case they selected a cohort of 1772 patient with a diagnosis of cannabis induced psychosis (CIP) from Swedish registry and insurance data between January 2006 and December 2021. Depending on who you read the $38.5B

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Mad in America

MAY 13, 2025

This change wasn’t because of scientific breakthroughsit happened at the same time as the drug industry was growing, insurance companies were asking for standard diagnoses, and professional psychiatry wanted to be seen as just as prestigious as physical medicine.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The media should be in an excellent position to challenge popular but damaging health practices by appealing to the available sound health research, but the media—with very few exceptions—has often been propagandized by pharmaceutical and medical device companies about the latest “breakthrough” drugs and other therapies.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

One advantage of BetterHelp is that because the service does not bill insurance, there is no need for clinicians to provide a diagnosis and target therapy to fit the “medical necessity” requirements imposed by third-party payers. But critics contend that treatments provided in research settings are artificial.

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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.

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Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2024

Healthcare insurers would much rather pay social workers to do psychotherapy than they would a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist because social workers are a lot cheaper in providing care. and one of the primary reasons I moved was the constant existential anxiety of not having healthcare despite having health insurance.

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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!

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

pharmaceutical companies and medical device companies) are especially prone to producing very poor quality and biased research. A prime example is, as I have mentioned, the off-label prescribing of an FDA-approved drug for one health problem for a different health problem, a practice devoid of any evidence to support it.

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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.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The current challenge is to begin to integrate these into a viable model of community-based and peer-led mental health support that can function outside of the institutional framework of regulation, licensing, insurance, professional norms, and so forth. In short, the same effects appear regardless of the character of the intervention.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” The Lancet is the extended marketing arm of the pharmaceutical industry, [21] just like the New England Journal of Medicine , which has also published articles denying that depression pills cause suicide. [22] No surprise there. This is dishonest. 21] Smith R.

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Mad in America

MAY 15, 2024

Siem: You don’t serve the pharmaceutical company who might be paying you on the side. I still use the DSM because I need to pay my bills and I cannot send a diagnosis to an insurance company and say, “This patient is deprived of accomplishments, purpose, and social interactions.” You don’t serve the hospital.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

However, rather than people becoming enraged and politically engaged to change carcinogenic environments, an extremely powerful medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex has controlled the societal narrative to focus—not on eliminating environmental-societal causes of cancer—but on expensive cancer treatments. between 1990 and 2019.”

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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.

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ADDitude

APRIL 11, 2025

” an ADDitude reader in Florida “ Health insurance companies will use the commissions recommendations to make it harder for us to undergo ADHD testing and treatment in every form. Our insurance company makes me fight every month for the medication he has. and/or increase our payments to receive them.

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