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“War Cry For Change”: Veterans Launch Campaign for Informed Consent and Safe Deprescribing at the VA

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His independent research into psychiatric drug harm and pharmaceutical industry corruption would eventually lead him to Mad in America, where he launched the Veterans’ & Military Families Initiative in 2019. Pharmaceutical influence over government has allowed this to go on as long as it has.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

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Jon Jureidini was doing research into patient experiences of antidepressant withdrawal with a view to making submissions to government. In the prevailing Australian Government view, withdrawal symptoms affect a small minority and probably represents relapse to the original condition. I contacted him, and he graciously took me on.

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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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The 50 colleges and universities making an outsize impact on business and society

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The Ignition Schools list honors the top academic institutions that play an enormous role in shaping the businesses that influence society. Welcome to the first-ever edition of Ignition Schools, a collaboration between Fast Company and our sibling publication, Inc. respectively—are also the focus of Ignition Schools. Our dual goals?

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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They represent catastrophic failures of governance. From this standpoint then, the systemic and institutional failures of mental health care are just reflections of a larger catastrophic failure of vision and governance that touches almost every aspect of modern life. We have become a sick society, and the signs are all around us.

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Top careers with a master’s degree in public health

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They work with governments, health departments, and global organizations, conducting studies, managing programs, and responding to outbreaks. They advocate for change, influencing health policy locally and globally, and translate research into practical policies that improve health outcomes for populations worldwide.

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

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For example, while seeking treatment for my own back pain/disability problem, including an attempt to get a waiver from my insurance company policy of mandatory steroid injections before authorization for back surgery, my experiences have strengthened my belief that too much of healthcare is governed by clinical belief rather than science.