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Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
” Although sexual dysfunction is labeled as a “side effect”, numerous patients report issues far persisting withdrawal. That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold
Mad in America
JUNE 13, 2024
When I reported brain zaps, the psychiatrist had no idea what to suggest, other than reduce the dose slowly. The psychiatrist was worried when I reported that I wasn’t sleeping well. We live in a culture which is heavily influenced by social media and the advertising industry. But I was only drug free for a couple of years.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 30, 2023
In this blog, he discusses the failures of the publicly funded long-term studies, CATIE and STAR*D, and psychiatry’s fraudulent reporting of these results. In their disclosure statements, 10 of STAR*D’s authors reported receiving money from Forest, Lundbeck’s partner in the United States.
Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
In 2000, JAMA reported the US yearly estimated iatrogenic deaths: 12,000 caused by unnecessary surgeries; 27,000 caused by medication errors and other errors in hospitals; 80,000 hospital/healthcare facility acquired infections; and 106,000 “non-error” adverse effects of medication. had no clinically significant benefit over a placebo.”
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. On that platform and in news reports, complaints range from descriptions of the annoying—therapists who don’t show up or arrive late—to destructive experiences.
Mad in America
JANUARY 9, 2024
They gave the reporting of trials to medical writing companies whose mission was to get the product in print quickly. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. They police advertisements claims but policing the medical literature is not their job. But the most important breakthrough came from the FDA.
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.
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