Consulting Government Pharmaceutical 
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.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 12, 2024
It seemed then that pharmaceutical companies had discovered scientific, targeted treatments for depression, free of side effects. The Government Accountability Office has shown that 94% of veterans treated at the VA for depression are prescribed antidepressant medications.
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Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
I thought that if I consulted with another psychiatrist to alter my medication, I would eventually feel almost human. He diagnosed me with ‘Major Depressive Disorder’ after a twenty-minute consultation and prescribed me my first ‘antidepressant’, Venlafaxine. I asked my psychiatrist during our final consultation.
Work Life
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
The Japanese government first expressed support for a shorter working week in 2021, after lawmakers endorsed the idea. The labor ministry recently started offering free consulting, grants and a growing library of success stories as further motivation. Perhaps more telling: of the 63,000 Panasonic Holdings Corp. Fast Retailing Co.,
Tanveer Naseer
MAY 16, 2011
Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
Lay people may apply psychiatric labels to their experience before or even in the absence of any professional consultation, but those labels have no formal standing’. As this author says, a better term would be ‘self-identification’ with a certain set of criteria—which may, of course, offer reassurance, if only initially.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 21, 2023
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.
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