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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
JUNE 10, 2025
Psychiatry, along with the pharmaceutical industry, have been ostensibly busy looking for causes of mental distress but, unfortunately, they are looking in the wrong place. All that was revealed by the huge amounts of family therapy research became buried under the tidal wave of the pharmaceutical psychiatric industrial complex.
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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.
Mad in America
JUNE 9, 2025
This pathologisation of suffering fuels a constant expansion of psychiatric categories, feeding the pharmaceutical industry and reinforcing the notion that there is a pill for every pain. Common human experiences — sadness, anxiety, grief, fatigue, disillusionment — are increasingly framed as mental disorders.
Mad in America
JUNE 13, 2025
Maine) introduced a bill Thursday that would ban pharmaceutical manufacturers from using direct-to-consumer advertising, including social media, to promote their products. They want us to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and ban these bogus ads.” From The Wall Street Journal : “Sens. Bernie Sanders (I.,
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.
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