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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not require warnings for persistent sexual dysfunction, for example, and today the agency is attempting to defend itself from a lawsuit by the consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Citizen, which claims that it failed to respond to a 2018 petition to do so.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, most pediatricians were opposed to breastfeeding and the accepted thinking at the time was that the baby was ready at six weeks to begin taking solid foods! Yet, this needed policy would not be acceptable to any of the major healthcare entities of today.

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Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness

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In another faith healing site in India, Rajasthan’s Balaji Temple, visitors deprive themselves of sleep, eat tasteless or bitter food, restrain themselves in chains, hit their bodies against the walls or move their head in repeated, circular motion for long periods of time to heal. So, no, I felt nothing until I realized the spirit was gone.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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FDA approves Food and Drugs—on the basis of assays. This is why consulting a doctor can feel like being nice to a policeman. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. No longer in the business of demonstrating their drug saved lives or got people back to work. What’s an Assay? They go by the evidence.

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What I’ve Learned about Tapering Psychiatric Drugs—A Holistic Therapist’s Perspective

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A bout five years into my career in the mental health field, I began to truly realize the depths of corruption involved in the pharmaceutical industry. The information shared below is not medical advice and I am not suggesting anyone stop taking a psychotropic medication without consulting with a healthcare professional.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007.