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You Have the Legal Right to Informed Consent

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I didn’t know that I had the legal right to informed consent when I was first prescribed the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant Paxil two decades ago. Although this was a medical malpractice case, Andy Vickery is no stranger to setting legal precedents. I just “blindly trusted” my family doctor.

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

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Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, her research addresses the ethical and medical-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of academic-industry relationships. She is co-author, with Robert Whitaker, of Psychiatry under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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The authors refused to withdraw the article, which resulted in a five-month battle where they needed legal assistance from their university and from Germany where the publisher is located. 18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” There was nothing defamatory in the content. No surprise there.

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How to manage conflict on your team when you’ve been avoiding it forever

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I worked with one global pharmaceutical client that was struggling to adapt to rapid growth as the demand for a blockbuster drug skyrocketed. The HR team, skeptical about changing processes that had worked for decades, began to butt heads with legal, who preferred new processes and increasingly looked down on HR as less business savvy.

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Leaving Biological Psychiatry Behind: An Interview With Rodrigo Nardi

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Everybody knows [in medicine], of the influence of pharma, on the training, on the textbooks, on the overall paradigm of psychiatry. Can you talk more about what it’s like to be a psychiatric resident how that is influencing the situation we find ourselves in today? I think this is part of the answer. You serve the patient.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. In this way, we put everyone else who is injured by the drug in a state of legal jeopardy because companies can claim nothing like happened in our studies – it’s your anecdote against our evidence.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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Ivan Jirous, Parallel Polis: An Inquiry This emerging “parallel mental health care” is remarkably diverse in its origins in a variety of academic disciplines, social movements, and cultural influences. Even as legalization proceeds apace across the country, ayahuasca circles and similar events can already be found in many communities.