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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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I corresponded with Hjelmeland about this saga, which made me search on the Internet to find out what the “experts” opine today about using drugs for suicide prevention. 18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” What saved her was that her private insurance ran out. No surprise there.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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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.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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Almost every advance in technology makes corresponding demands on the human person. The current challenge is to begin to integrate these into a viable model of community-based and peer-led mental health support that can function outside of the institutional framework of regulation, licensing, insurance, professional norms, and so forth.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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One advantage of BetterHelp is that because the service does not bill insurance, there is no need for clinicians to provide a diagnosis and target therapy to fit the “medical necessity” requirements imposed by third-party payers. But critics contend that treatments provided in research settings are artificial.

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

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The media should be in an excellent position to challenge popular but damaging health practices by appealing to the available sound health research, but the media—with very few exceptions—has often been propagandized by pharmaceutical and medical device companies about the latest “breakthrough” drugs and other therapies.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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He also co-founded Hobbs/Herder Insurance Marketing Systems and Hobbs/Herder Training, among others. Meitner is also the Greater Philadelphia correspondent of Financing the American Dream , a national television show featuring real estate, lifestyles and cultures all over the nation.