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Mad in America
JUNE 13, 2024
I surprised myself at how much I enjoyed the experience of interviewing these interesting patients. Medical research is largely funded by the pharmaceutical industry, papers ghostwritten by the pharmaceutical industry and influencers paid by the pharmaceutical industry.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 30, 2023
The disappointing CATIE and STAR*D studies T he two sane authors of the first chapter of the 1065-page textbook noted that naturalistic studies—which they did not reference but mentioned by name, CATIE, STAR*D, and Storebø 2016—have shown smaller effects than those the drug companies have advertised. This is mendacious.
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Mad in America
JANUARY 6, 2024
It’s not surprising for a company that reportedly spent over $100 million on advertising in 2023, making it the country’s projected leading sponsor of podcasts. Once approved, I was invited to a 15-minute interview with a woman who did not work as a therapist. The interviewer said no one she screened had ever failed it.
Mad in America
JANUARY 9, 2024
Scientific experiments, like clinical trials, may have standards to avoid mistakes but they don’t operate to a standard any more than a clinical interview has. Standardizing clinical interviews risks disaster. Is there a change on standardized interviews (rating scales) or dipsticks? Science explores, bureaucracy tests.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Listen to the audio of the interview here. For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 6, 2023
2024 Around-America Tour For almost two decades, my “True Crime” story has, sadly, been my unique contribution to challenging the powerful influence that the pharmaceutical industry has on the global healthcare system. Our family tragedy also provided the basis for the CTV W5 episodes Over the Edge (2007) and The Problem with Pills (2021).
Mad in America
OCTOBER 21, 2023
That’s been the question posed to me in 2023 by interviewers such as Nick Fortino on “ Psychology Is ” and Mollie Adler on “Back from the Borderline. ” The psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex is fueled by the profits of Big Pharma, which have made a staggering amount of money from psychiatric drugs. By 2019, Big Pharma’s $6.6
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