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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

Mad in America

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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3 middle class families across America share what they earn, spend, and save

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Although household incomes have increased considerably since 1970, the share of adults who live in middle-class households fell from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2021 (the last time Pew did an analysis of government data). “Plus, food prices in Spain are cheap,” she says.

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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.

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

Mad in America

If only he could apply himself to his study of history and government he would be well qualified for the job (But who are we kidding? However, Miss Brown will discover that John boy buys his lunch from the cafeteria, and since she’s not allowed to withhold food from him, he goes to the cafeteria to buy his lunch.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

Mad in America

Despite evidence of the dangerous nature of this product, along with mounting pressure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and child safety advocates, the aspirin industry denied any negligence on their part and instead blamed the reported safety concerns on poor parenting. Which is exactly what happened with children’s aspirin.

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

Mad in America

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. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

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How Elon Musk’s government efficiency panel could work

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government. Ramaswamy, who founded pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences, has worked with the Food and Drug Administration, an agency he has previously called “corrupt” On social media site X in 2023 he added that “Countless FDA regulations and actions are hypocritical, harmful & unconstitutional.”