Work Life

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

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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Inside Workplace Wellness

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

On Thursday, the National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC) and Health Affairs launched a new initiative to address health spending called Going Below the Surface. There is no public support for rationing care, so the government can't put the breaks on, at least not at the federal level.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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? it’s the wrong one… You can see where this is going—lil’ John boy will make an excellent senator the way he filibusters class time. Those aren’t prerequisites for becoming a senator).

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Mad in America

AUGUST 21, 2024

He is also a current member of the UK government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and is the only pharmacist to have been made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The NICE guidelines, which are the government guidelines in England, adopted our approach.

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Vantage Circle

MARCH 21, 2020

I once worked at an organization, and my department worked on connecting pharmaceutical companies with government officials. Here’s the holy trinity of company management mistakes that force employees to leave. You Spread Them Thin. Yet, my department had a very high turnover.

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Mad in America

APRIL 23, 2025

Together we wrote an informational brochure about neuroleptics free from the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical industry. The Dutch government gave the money for the conference. The group included the regional organization of users and survivors of psychiatry, the critical psychiatrist Volkmar Aderhold, and me.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

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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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

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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Mad in America

JUNE 15, 2024

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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

From The Hastings Center : “A large government-funded study of solanezumab , an experimental Alzheimer’s drug that targets amyloid in the brain, has found no benefit in people with normal cognitive function who have elevated amyloid levels.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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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Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Nordic researchers had no conflicts of interest while Goldney had “received honoraria and research grants from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” 119:24 Whitaker also mentioned the MTA trial ( see Chapter 9, Part Two ). 689 His paper is a classic example of how one should not do a review.

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Work Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The Japanese government first expressed support for a shorter working week in 2021, after lawmakers endorsed the idea. A recent government white paper on “karoshi,” the Japanese term that in English means “death from overwork, said Japan has at least 54 such fatalities a year, including from heart attacks.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I believe that sound health research should shape and govern healthcare delivery, but unfortunately much of health policy seems governed by clinical or anecdotal “evidence” and many times bogus research findings. I applaud many pharmaceuticals that cure disease or substantially reduce symptoms.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

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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Work Life

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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). In fact, that 50% number has been holding steady for the last decade, says Pew Senior Researcher Rakesh Kochhar.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Everything that I had been told was part of an elaborate, profiteering form of mass human control by psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies, and governments. In my desperation and loneliness, I had been the perfect psychiatric victim.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

135 One should never start psychiatric drug treatment without having a tapering plan, but no one taught doctors how to stop the drugs, whereas they have learned from their professors and the pharmaceutical industry when to start them and always to blame the disease for untoward symptoms, ignoring the troubles they have caused.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Presumably, acknowledging their existence would spoil Chapman’s image of a group consisting solely of ‘privileged’ professionals who depict service users as ‘ gullible victims … who have been tricked into believing they are ill by the “myths” or “lies” invented by psychiatry or pharmaceutical companies ’.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

For example, Dhar notes that doctors in India must prescribe medications chosen by the government, reducing the sway pharmaceutical companies have over their thinking. The group focuses on South Asia-based research studies and perspectives in order to promote South Asian viewpoints that differ from Western ones.

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Inside Workplace Wellness

AUGUST 1, 2018

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. Does your PBM require providers to use NDC coding for Specialty Pharmaceuticals to improve monitoring and tracking of utilization?

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Inside Workplace Wellness

JUNE 21, 2017

But when pharmaceutical companies pushed opioid painkillers with a misleading marketing campaign, they started a drug crisis." As the government cracked down on how opioids are prescribed, people who are addicted switched to heroin. The New Yorker ran through a good history in Who is Responsible for the Pain-Pill Epidemic.

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Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

As a strategic advisor, Egwuonwu consults on complex strategic problems and transformational initiatives for a diverse array of clients, including Fortune 50 companies, governments, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, small business owners, growth and early-stage startups and personal and leadership development clients.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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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Workplace Insight

JULY 5, 2024

They work with governments, health departments, and global organizations, conducting studies, managing programs, and responding to outbreaks. These professionals are in demand across healthcare providers, research institutions, pharmaceutical firms, and governmental bodies.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The Canadian government has declared it to be a form of torture. The large pharmaceutical companies are the only people who benefit from the drugs that they sell. The attempt to change another person’s sexual orientation is called conversion therapy. It is now illegal throughout Canada and in twenty-six American states.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

In our 2015 book Psychiatry Under the Influence , Lisa Cosgrove and I wrote about the STAR*D scandal in depth, as it served as an example of the institutional corruption in psychiatry due to pharmaceutical interests and psychiatrys own guild interests. This was the governing public narrative when the STAR*D trial was conducted.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

South African allocates only 5% of its annual health budget to mental health, placing it at the bottom of international benchmarks of government spend on psychological well-being. Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer. Linda 1 is a 20-year-old Zimbabwean refugee living in South Africa.

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Work Life

MARCH 19, 2025

Addressing this urgent crisis requires collaboration and systemic changes across the healthcare system, with policymakers, insurers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, healthcare professionals, and many others playing an important role.

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Mad in America

MARCH 26, 2025

First, his journal told of how clinical experiences should govern our understanding of the impact of psychiatric treatments, particularly over longer periods of time. Third, his journal told of the corrupting influence of pharmaceutical money on the creation of psychiatric diagnoses and drug trials. Fava: Right, and the libraries.

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