Mad in America

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), 30+ prominent figures called on the UK government to acknowledge the evidence that antidepressants are no better than placebos for most patients and to increase funding of social and psychological interventions while decreasing drug prescriptions. “Our

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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. But do patients report the same?

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Lifeline had reported to him that I had “threatened to kill both of my children and then myself,” and he was now arresting me under the Mental Health Act. Everything that I had been told was part of an elaborate, profiteering form of mass human control by psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies, and governments.

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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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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

At the time, those calling behavioral health management firms and reporting depressive or anxiety symptoms were offered the alternative of going to a behavioral health professional or conferring with their doctor about antidepressant medication or other psychiatric drugs as a first and perhaps a final step in their treatment!

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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. Thank you both. Keep up the good work.

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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? If there were any medical basis to this condition at all there would be no need for self-reporting and we would simply run some tests that indicate whether a body is physiologically non-normal.

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Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This lack of supply is acting as a brake on the UK Government’s dream of making the country a “science superpower”. According to a report earlier this year from property analyst Bidwells, there is pretty much no space left in Oxford or Cambridge for life science businesses to move into.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Peterson Center of Healthcare reports that the U.S. The Peterson Center reports that, in the U.S., The Peterson Center reports that, in the U.S., In chapters 2 through 6 I will report on research that suggests the 30% figure is likely to be an understatement of the degree of wasteful spending. The yearly $3.6

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Inside Workplace Wellness

JUNE 21, 2017

Vox reported , " US doctors wanted to treat pain as a serious medical problem. 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.

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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

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

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. Recently, for example, MISA sent reporter Rohini Roy to a number of faith healing sites, which exist around the world but are especially prominent in South Asia.

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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 10, 2023

Despite evidence of the dangerous nature of this product, along with mounting pressure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and child safety advocates, the aspirin industry denied any negligence on their part and instead blamed the reported safety concerns on poor parenting. Which is exactly what happened with children’s aspirin.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Rather, diagnosis largely focuses upon self-reports, so can only be based on social norms. But for the great majority of instances of neurodivergence—notably, people given diagnoses of ASD or ADHD— there is no identifiable bodily impairment. But historically, they have been seen primarily as medical illnesses or disorders.

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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. Only 48% of employers receive reporting on drug expenses paid under medical according to a McKinsey Report. 3 Evaluate your contract terms.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Bockoven 652 reported that the rehospitalisation rate for discharged patients was higher for patients treated after the arrival of psychosis pills and the medicated patients were also more “socially dependent” than those treated before 1955. 119:24 Whitaker also mentioned the MTA trial ( see Chapter 9, Part Two ).

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

L ast spring, it seemed certain that the story of the STAR*D scandal, which Mad in America has been reporting on for 14 years, would finally attract the attention of the mainstream media. In 2006, the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) published four reports on STAR*D outcomes. There was one other red flag.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I have found that the observational studies and meta-analyses of such studies that have reported that the pills protect against suicide or have no effect on suicide are flawed and sometimes even fraudulent. It is not simple to do reliable observational studies of suicide. This is the case for the United States.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online. My mom takes handfuls of pills, she tells me.

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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.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

In 2021, New York Times reporter Benedict Carey, after covering psychiatry for twenty years, concluded that psychiatry had done “little to improve the lives of the millions of people living with persistent mental distress. In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. Suicide rates have risen by about 30% since 2000.

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Success

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Increasing number of women entrepreneurs According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2020/2021 report , women account for about 33% of high growth entrepreneurs globally, a significant rise in recent years. Women in startups A report by PitchBook revealed that female-cofounded companies in the U.S. raised a record $64.4

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Mad in America

JUNE 29, 2024

The pharmaceutical industry in this conference was treated like a creepy rich uncle who you must invite to the family reunion but then also strategically ignore. Unlike what I had read about the savviness of pharmaceutical representatives, reps here were only mildly interested in selling their products and knew even less about them.

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Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

Moreover, in a 2022 review, Brain Changes Associated With Long-Term Ketamine Abuse, A Systematic Review, published in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy reported : Long-term recreational ketamine use was associated with lower gray matter volume and less white matter integrity, lower functional thalamocortical and corticocortical connectivity.

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

These policies have very real, concrete effectslike the dismantling of welfare programs and the shifting of risk from governments to individuals. The challenge neoliberalism seeks to address is: How do you govern a population that prioritizes individual freedom above all else? Neoliberalism provides an answer: govern through choice.

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Work Life

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

government. Ramaswamy, who founded pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences, has worked with the Food and Drug Administration, an agency he has previously called “corrupt” On social media site X in 2023 he added that “Countless FDA regulations and actions are hypocritical, harmful & unconstitutional.”

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