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Mad in America
DECEMBER 6, 2023
I didn’t know that I had the legal right to informed consent when I was first prescribed the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant Paxil two decades ago. Although this was a medical malpractice case, Andy Vickery is no stranger to setting legal precedents. I just “blindly trusted” my family doctor.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
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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Mad in America
JANUARY 9, 2024
Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. In this way, we put everyone else who is injured by the drug in a state of legal jeopardy because companies can claim nothing like happened in our studies – it’s your anecdote against our evidence. Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts.
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. Still, despite the added work, he said it was hard to leave the site completely because their advertising ensures there are always new patients he can see to maintain a busy caseload.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 2, 2023
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.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 10, 2023
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.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
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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