Remove Controlling Remove Government Remove Pharmaceutical
article thumbnail

Don’t Give Symptom-Free People Alzheimer’s Drugs

Mad in America

From The Hastings Center : “A large government-funded study of solanezumab , an experimental Alzheimer’s drug that targets amyloid in the brain, has found no benefit in people with normal cognitive function who have elevated amyloid levels.

article thumbnail

The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

Mad in America

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. When medications did cause harm, the doctors were completely blind to it.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

Mad in America

They represent catastrophic failures of governance. What if every dimension of our lives is controlled by huge, faceless bureaucracies that could at any moment take away our livelihood or refuse to pay for needed medical care? We have become a sick society, and the signs are all around us. Yet these things are not acts of God.

article thumbnail

Human

Mad in America

The doctors and nurses were writing my narrative; they controlled my present and future. Everything that I had been told was part of an elaborate, profiteering form of mass human control by psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies, and governments. My captors lurked. They continued to taunt me and question me.

article thumbnail

Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? Moore: The last couple of questions are related to the pharmaceutical industry.

article thumbnail

Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

Mad in America

I believe that sound health research should shape and govern healthcare delivery, but unfortunately much of health policy seems governed by clinical or anecdotal “evidence” and many times bogus research findings. I applaud many pharmaceuticals that cure disease or substantially reduce symptoms.

article thumbnail

Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

Mad in America

You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. It is, though, largely funded by the government.