Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 14, 2025

So a few enterprising grocery stores had an ideathey began purchasing their own food straight from the manufacturer, putting it in ostentatiously no-frills packaging, and selling it for significantly less than the name-brand stuff. These products were called generics, and if out-of-control costs were the problem, they were the solution.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Avoid financial conflicts of interest with manufacturers of psychoactive drugs or other treatments, e.g. equipment for electroshock. Make it unlawful to use drugs that are registered for nonpsychiatric uses, e.g. anti-epileptics, for mental health issues.

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Mad in America

APRIL 6, 2024

China, obviously, has its own large manufacturing capacity. Attentive readers may notice that China would appear to be an exception to the trend, with a relatively high rate of disability, despite what is recorded by the Lancet as a lower rate of psychotropic drug use overall. This is most likely under-reporting.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group associated with Scientology, then issued a press release urging Congress to ban this “killer drug,” and that’s when Eli Lilly, manufacturer of Prozac, conjured up a media strategy to save its drug that has proven effective ever since.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

APRIL 22, 2025

Some manufacturers also offer assistance programs to help with costs. But theres some good news: many insurance plans now cover it, especially for people with documented treatment-resistant depression. Before starting, check with your provider and your insurance company. Can You Stop Spravato? The answer is yes.

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Now Psych

APRIL 5, 2024

Additionally, regularly inspect toys for any signs of damage or wear and follow manufacturer’s guidelines for proper use and maintenance. Always ensure that toys are age-appropriate, free from small parts that could pose a choking hazard, and made from non-toxic materials.

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Real Psychiatry

AUGUST 23, 2024

Supplementary 1: The more I thought about the figure quoted for precursor amounts used in the illicit manufacture of ketamine in China - the more skeptical I became. Ketamine: The Story of Modern Psychiatry's Most Fascinating Molecule. Washington DC. American Psychiatric Publishing. 2024; 295 pp.

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National Association for the Advancement of Psycho

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The perpetuation of such projections, concludes Korzybsky, tends to keep mankind on the archaic levels of anthropomorphism and animism in their evaluation of their surroundings and themselves.

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Mad in America

MAY 23, 2025

The TTI also creates a sense of urgency through manufactured scarcity, using phrases like Act now before its too late to scare parents into taking immediate action. I never had a single conversation with this man. My parents interactions with him were limited and mainly focused on securing and maintaining my enrollment.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2024

The pump, manufactured by device maker Medtronic, connected plastic tubing to an insulin reservoir, which Gautney set to release doses of the vital hormone over the course of the day. ‘There’s a big hole left where he was,’ said Gautney’s daughter, Carla Wiggins, who is suing the manufacturer.

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Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2025

An internal report by drugs firm GSK , which makes the medication, reveals the manufacturer was aware of the link with impulsive behaviours in 2003. This information was shared with drug regulators, according to GSK. In 2011, a class action was brought against GSK by four sufferers of Parkinson’s disease.

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Mad in America

JUNE 20, 2024

But the person prescribing them (or manufacturing them) has a different problem to solve: explaining why I should still trust them to guide me to wellness. Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disorder. If I am convinced that I will get better by taking antidepressants but then don’t, this creates dissonance.

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Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2024

We cited research based on the clinical study reports the manufactures had submitted to drug regulators to get their drugs approved for children and adolescents and other research in our letter. 4,5 I asked Emslie and the manufacturer, Eli Lilly, if they wanted to restore the trials. The fraud was grave.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Because I was witnessing so much disease mongering—the creation and manufacturing of these broad new definitions of disease—and because I was talking to critics within the medical establishment as well, I started to write for the British Medical Journal. What was that about? Moynihan: That’s exactly right.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Somatics LLC marked a watershed moment for advocates who have fought for decades for ECT device manufacturer accountability. “That’s a war crime and it’s never been viewed that way, because let’s be honest, we’re dealing with humans who have psychiatric diagnoses,” she said.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

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.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

One would have thought that suicide is a hard endpoint and that we can believe analyses carried out by drug regulators based on the clinical study reports the manufacturers have submitted to them, but this is not so. But as with so much else in psychiatry, this can be negotiated, obscured, and influenced by commercial conflicts of interest.

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Psychiatric News

JULY 4, 2024

While psychiatrists are culpable as the pushers of these brain-altering nightmare pills, the industry that manufactures and promotes them (AKA Big Pharma) deserves their own Nuremberg. The toxic pills distributed en masse by the pharmaceutical behemoths have led to more deaths in the U.S. than the Vietnam War.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The tragedy of Heather Armstrong’s death is that no one really knows why she took her own life, but I believe I do, and the drug manufacturers agree with me. Carter-Winward wrote about Heather Armstrong , who rose to fame as a Utah-based “mommy” blogger who wrote about parenting, life, and depression.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 27, 2024

Perhaps rather than doing more of the same we need to consider trials comparing tapering strategies, exploring if there is indeed a need for manufacturing of smaller doses to avoid withdrawals and if psychosocial support can further decrease the risk. Findings will most likely be replicated, with increased risk for those who stop medication.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

This move “transformed pharmaceutical outfits into companies who market drugs rather than companies who manufacture drugs for the market.” Industry pivoted to a focus on regulatory capture—hijacking the academic process to promote dubious new drugs.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Victims matter; sexual abuse and assault are real; and it can be repressed. Saying this does not make anyone guilty of these crimes.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

The DSM manufactures illness from normal human reactions by some individuals in response to some environments. While modern medicine has become increasingly impersonal, bureaucratized, and socially iatrogenic, the essence of psychiatry has long been one of social iatrogenesis.

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Clear Behavioral Health

APRIL 2, 2025

Fentanyl : Although sometimes used in hospital settings, illicit fentanyl is also manufactured and distributed on the street. Heroin : An illegal opioid derived from morphine that is highly addictive and often laced with other substances. Today, real heroin is exceedingly rare, replaced mostly by fentanyl.

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Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

Establishment psychiatry has shown this same unscientific thinking in its manufacturing of other biological theories of mental illness. Psychiatry has offered various chemical imbalanceor monoamine imbalance theories for depression. news story , I Lost Everything’: Inside Britain’s ‘Worrying’ Ketamine Problem).

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Mad in America

APRIL 11, 2025

My brain and my life are dependent upon a pharmaceutical company in India staying in business and manufacturing generic duloxetine until the day I die. I also get withdrawal if I try to switch brands, and I have no idea if my brain would eventually accept and stabilize on a new brand.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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.

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Mad in America

MARCH 26, 2024

However, it is especially abhorrent when one is using manufactured diseases to torture someone into perpetual bondage, for profit, to possibly deadly ends. One may say that cure is often less profitable than permanent customers in all of healthcare, which is of course an issue in itself.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Electroconvulsive Therapy, Manufacturers Liability, and Learned Intermediaries. MECTA Electroshock Device Manufacturer Files for Bankruptcy as its Shock Box Loses Liability Insurance. Sincerely, Christopher James Dubey Psychiatric survivor References Alibhai, Z. 2022, June 19). link] Appelbaum, P. Psychiatric Services , appi.ps.20240518.

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Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Will it lead to a typical Congressional show hearing where members manufacture outrage and nothing changes. I am more than a little suspect about all the social media rage. Is it real or just generated by a few provocative trolls? One thing is for sure the current state of events is not a good sign.

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Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

From Meer : “In 1970, Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry emeritus at State University of New York, published his seminal work, The Manufacture of Madness. In this, the 21st century, the Trump playbook is inhabited by many of these fundamental elements for the manufacture of madness as chronicled by Szasz.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

We showed how STAR*D’s authors had manipulated the data to manufacture fraudulent results. In addition, since STAR*D’s publication, the prescription of these drugs is generating and exacerbating depression more than alleviating it. In 2010, I was one of the authors of a published critique of the STAR*D study’s reported findings.

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Mad in America

MAY 9, 2025

drug companies manufactured enough barbiturates in 1955 alone to treat 10 million people daily throughout the year. Polly was deposited at Harlem Valley at the start of the early wave of patients being treated with new drugs churned out by a booming pharmaceutical industry and prescribed enthusiastically by doctors. Two years later, U.S.

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Real Psychiatry

APRIL 20, 2025

Much has been made about manufacturing in the US and there is an active debate. Sagan has a famous quote that is considered prophetic by many: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. Specifically is it a feasible solution for whatever economic problems you claim it will solve?

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