Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
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.” Medical journals are an extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 20, 2023
For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. I think the National Health Service is also more responsive to the concerns around money and creating permanent patients with all the corresponding physical problems.
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Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
Another cohort study, of 136,293 American postmenopausal women (age 50-79) participating in the Women’s Health Initiative study, found that depression drugs were associated with a 32% increase in all-cause mortality after adjustment for confounding factors, which corresponded to 0.5% of women killed by SSRIs when treated for one year.
Mad in America
JANUARY 29, 2024
If one reads the ADM literature, it is quite apparent that the pharmaceutical industry—with the help of psychiatry—since day one has been involved in a cover up of the dangerousness of these drugs. of the drugs reviewed had two or fewer cases of violence, which is reassuring for most pharmaceuticals.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Consequently, there are three, and exactly three, basic forms of madness, and each form corresponds to a breakdown in one of the three faculties.” Moore: And of course, it was an open door then for the pharmaceutical industry, wasn’t it, with their massive marketing dollars. They’re not just tranquilizers.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Almost every advance in technology makes corresponding demands on the human person. While these are sometimes understood as the “common factors” of psychotherapy, Van Os and colleagues point out that this also applies to pharmaceutical interventions. The servant becomes the master.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 18, 2023
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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