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

Mad in America

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. When medications did cause harm, the doctors were completely blind to it.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Obviously, it’s pretty easy to assail government bureaucracy, but how about industry?

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

Mad in America

With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

Mad in America

For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. The marketing of medical conditions has become a key plank of pharmaceutical industry marketing. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

Mad in America

As Rob Wipond writes in Your Consent is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships : “Today, good statistics are hard to come by—federal, state, and provincial governments don’t gather them, don’t gather them in full, or don’t share them publicly.

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Lab rats – how the UK life sciences sector is struggling to find space to work

Workplace Insight

It is striking how weighted Ireland’s export figures are to the life sciences, medical and pharmaceutical industries craved by the UK Just how significant is apparent when comparing the UK with Ireland. We are at something of a tipping point if we don’t make the right decisions now,” said Emma Walmsley.

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Nine Actions to Mitigate Specialty Drug Costs

Inside Workplace Wellness

The arrangement would have been the first agreement with a manufacturer for outcomes-based pricing. The demise of the CMS deal illustrates how difficult it is to figure out how much government health programs should pay for expensive treatments whose long-term benefits are still unclear. 3 Evaluate your contract terms.