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Prescription Drugs: The Hidden Costs to Health and the Planet

Mad in America

A ccording to the IQVIA Institute report, “The Use of Medicines in the U.S. Pharmaceutical spending in the U.S. The Downsides of Pharmaceuticals for Health Management While prescription drugs can be lifesaving or increase your quality of life, it can be damaging to rely solely on pharmaceuticals for your well-being.

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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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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

Mad in America

This isn’t an anxiety to pathologize or suppress, nor is it something we can avoid by just eating gluten-free food or avoiding caffeine. Our hormones, our gut health, micronutrient deficiencies, the degree to which we have inflammatory molecules coursing through our bloodstream—there’s an enormous influence from food.

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

Mad in America

When medical historians say, “This particular person got an appreciable amount of money from a pharmaceutical company, in this case, Merck and Parke-Davis,” we want to know how much money it is. I continue to do these studies beating on this drum that self-reporting conflicts of interest doesn’t work. Cosgrove: Yes.

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7 Best Practices To Improve Employee Listening Efforts and Build Trust

Great Place to Work

At Wegmans Food Markets , No. Rather than reporting to a store manager or anyone in the employee’s chain of command, advocates report to a HR director, who in turn reports to our vice president of store operations HR,” Riley says. At Vertex Pharmaceuticals , No. Atlassian , No. Salesforce , No.

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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. Moore: Another anonymous question.

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

Mad in America

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. He returns “promptly” thirty-five minutes later and explains that “the line was long” or that “they ran out of food and had to make more.”