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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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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. Antibiotics and insulin were genuine scientific breakthroughs.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

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135 One should never start psychiatric drug treatment without having a tapering plan, but no one taught doctors how to stop the drugs, whereas they have learned from their professors and the pharmaceutical industry when to start them and always to blame the disease for untoward symptoms, ignoring the troubles they have caused.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

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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.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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As a strategic advisor, Egwuonwu consults on complex strategic problems and transformational initiatives for a diverse array of clients, including Fortune 50 companies, governments, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, small business owners, growth and early-stage startups and personal and leadership development clients.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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And this is complemented by well-funded public advertising and promotional campaignsoften with overt government support. 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.

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A Psycho-Spiritual Journey

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In Australia, it was easy enough in those days to obtain a disability pension with subsistence-level government accommodation and an ongoing supply of medication. Over time, with the aid of government funding, Grow was taken over by so-called professionals. Grow also triggered an interest for me in philosophy.