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

Mad in America

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. They need to know that some of what they learned in medical school and their graduate programs isn’t the full story.

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Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy: Stratgies for Building Trust

Total Wellness

The reasons behind vaccine hesitancy are multifaceted, from mistrust in pharmaceutical companies and governments to the rampant spread of misinformation on social media. Below, learn more about the challenge of vaccine hesitancy and find out how employers can address it.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

I later learned prescription of paroxetine to people aged 65 and older has been discouraged since 2016. He freaked out, said that paroxetine was “one of the worst” to withdraw from (it is) and at a recent symposium at Yale he had learned that weaning off the drug could take up to two years. (Or Down from 40mg.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

Mad in America

I spent a long time in OCD therapy and learned a lot about the field. Doctors became hypnotized by the appearance of “science”, even if the literature they consulted was essentially pharmaceutical advertising. Such optimism would be disappointed by dwindling pharmaceutical progress in the later half of the century.

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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

Mad in America

It seemed then that pharmaceutical companies had discovered scientific, targeted treatments for depression, free of side effects. The Government Accountability Office has shown that 94% of veterans treated at the VA for depression are prescribed antidepressant medications.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

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? Society is saying, “Wow, we’re learning so much from brain research.” How about the kids?

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

Work Life

With Ignition Schools, we’re formalizing the analysis of the colleges and universities where some of the world’s greatest ideas originate, using metrics such as the number of venture-backed companies founded by students and alumni, the total venture money raised by students and alumni, and government research and development expenditures.