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Mad in America
APRIL 2, 2025
Depression was sold to us as a simple problem of serotonin insufficiency, a convenient narrative that made drug companies like Eli Lilly, Forest Pharmaceuticals, and Pfizer very rich. As a former pharmaceutical advertising writer, I not only witnessed the explosive growth in antidepressant drugs, I contributed to it.
Mad in America
MARCH 22, 2025
The journal continued to be in good hands, and thus one of the few journals that was receptive to research findings that belied the narrative of therapeutic progress that the psychiatric guild and pharmaceutical companies have been promoting for decades. He noted too the reluctance of the field to consider this possibility.
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Mad in America
MAY 29, 2025
This study underscores the persistent gap between clinical prescribing practices and evidence-based safety for aging populations, highlighting how deeply entrenched assumptions about pharmaceutical solutions continue to shape care, even in the face of well-documented harms.
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.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 28, 2024
Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRIs). First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry).
Mad in America
MARCH 21, 2025
Together, psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry successfully promoted this narrative to the public, leading to a great expansion of the psychiatric enterprise. There was a dramatic increase in the number of people diagnosed, including the diagnosing of children, and a dramatic increase in the prescribing of psychiatric drugs.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
The medical community is comfortable acknowledging persistent brain injury from recreational drugs, yet remains silent when it comes to pharmaceuticals. Yet, when it comes to pharmaceutical drugs, we assume they are somehow cleaner simply because theyre prescribed. How Widespread Is Psychiatric Drug-Induced Brain Damage?
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