Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I n the first essay of this three-part series, I noted that current estimates of the incidence of antidepressant withdrawal range from 1% to 50%; and that patients’ beliefs and hopes, and the availability of alternative treatments, influence how they hear explanations of antidepressant risk. So, no question, “pharma” has strong influence.

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Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

Medical research is largely funded by the pharmaceutical industry, papers ghostwritten by the pharmaceutical industry and influencers paid by the pharmaceutical industry. We live in a culture which is heavily influenced by social media and the advertising industry.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. It’s continuing this idea that there’s something wrong in you that needs an external influence to correct, isn’t it? How about the kids?

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

She is co-author, with Robert Whitaker, of Psychiatry under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform. When medical historians say, “This particular person got an appreciable amount of money from a pharmaceutical company, in this case, Merck and Parke-Davis,” we want to know how much money it is.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Australian Government doesn’t recognize that withdrawal from psychiatric drugs is anything to worry about for the overwhelming majority of patients, so doctors here know only what the pharmaceutical companies and the expert advisory bodies influenced by those companies want them to know, which is effectively nothing useful to the patient.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

This connection between mental health and the use of battlefield and warfare metaphors has meaningful implications for how people perceive and cope with mental health conditions, influencing how care goals are set and treatment plans are designed. In this ‘garden’ model, mental health is seen as a collective, dynamic cultivation process.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” The Lancet is the extended marketing arm of the pharmaceutical industry, [21] just like the New England Journal of Medicine , which has also published articles denying that depression pills cause suicide. [22] No surprise there. This is dishonest. 21] Smith R.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Through the 1990s, I was dismayed that the influence of pharmaceutical marketing had seemed to suppress that idea, as polypharmacy and use of higher doses of drugs became part of accepted practice. This might be due to the work Moncrieff and others have already done in influencing practice in the UK.

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Work Life

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The Ignition Schools list honors the top academic institutions that play an enormous role in shaping the businesses that influence society. Welcome to the first-ever edition of Ignition Schools, a collaboration between Fast Company and our sibling publication, Inc. respectively—are also the focus of Ignition Schools.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Not necessarily, but they should, in the interest of holistic and compassionate treatment, be aware of how these factors influence and affect physical functioning. Beyond “Diagnose and Prescribe” Rigid adherence to the model of “investigate, diagnose, prescribe” limits patients’ treatment options to those that are mainly pharmaceutical.

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Work Life

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Relying solely on a narrow set of approaches can limit the breadth and depth of your influence and hinder the full potential of your organization. In Tony’s work as a leadership coach, he worked with a pharmaceutical CEO who realized that her company’s long-term vision had become blurred.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. A century ago, Paul Ehrlich, whose research helped create the modern pharmaceutical industry, saw the ideal medicine as a Magic Bullet, a drug that hits a target without causing collateral damage.

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Workplace Psychology

AUGUST 17, 2021

Bill Berman & George Bradt (Influence and Impact, p. What Influence and Impact by Bill Berman and George Bradt Is About. people lose their ability to influence others and impact the organization because they are not focused on the most essential, mission-critical business and cultural priorities. What is influence?

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Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

The article illustrates the desperate measures some will take to defend this view, and the way in which a group of biological psychiatrists exert their influence over the scientific literature. Knowledge is power, and power means the ability to make truly informed choices about how to understand and manage your own problems.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

Clearly, this influences whether they are regarded as ‘ill’ or as distressed, whether they might be considered dangerous, incapable, threatening and so on. There are many voices articulating the need for politicians and others with influence to act against growing levels of material inequality, but these tend to fall on deaf ears.

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Mad in America

JULY 18, 2024

When the pharmaceutical industry realized their new tranquilizers could be sold to make psychosis more manageable, psychiatrists were easy marks for the promotional campaigns. I suspect a primary problem is the pharmaceutical industry coming up with new pills to sell. The Soviets found an inventive use for psychiatric tranquilizers.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 30, 2024

Prior to the days of pharmaceutical companies, there was no such thing as “depression”. He believed that people’s strange behaviours were not mental illnesses. They represented “problems in living”. Unfortunately, not many “experts” and other psychiatrists took him seriously.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But there are a lot of factors I think that influenced that. Moore: And of course, it was an open door then for the pharmaceutical industry, wasn’t it, with their massive marketing dollars. And I think she’s right that medical psychiatry and the pharmaceutical companies needed a vision like that.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Pharmaceutical companies, exerting their influence on academic psychiatry through lucrative honoraria and advisory board payments, have clearly played a role in how antidepressant risks have been presented. This notable gap has raised some suspicion that the necessary research has not merely been overlooked but deliberately avoided.

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Work Life

AUGUST 29, 2024

I worked with one global pharmaceutical client that was struggling to adapt to rapid growth as the demand for a blockbuster drug skyrocketed. These unspoken yet powerful influencers shape our expectations of others, drive important decisions , and dictate whether or not we are truly available to listen to differing points of view.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Capitalist society is not based on happiness but on productivity, and psychiatry is part of this system, not least because of the pharmaceutical companies’ great influence over research. You could call it corruption if you were of the zealous sort.

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Mad in America

MAY 15, 2024

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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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

—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. For the same reason, it remains painfully fragmented and siloed.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Schatzberg has served as a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corcept Therapeutics, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals, Organon, ParkeDavis, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst. 10:20 He calls this “scientism”.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Both practitioners and health researchers shape the kind of healthcare delivered to patients but, unfortunately, practitioner influence has been substantially greater than the scientific health research influence in shaping clinical practice. This has resulted in both good and poor healthcare.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

So, when I extend the playground metaphor to psychiatric practice, I see the patient as the victim who is bullied by the many well-intentioned practitioners under the influence of their malign ideology. In a way, such practitioners are both victims of bullying and bullies themselves.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Our hormones, our gut health, micronutrient deficiencies, the degree to which we have inflammatory molecules coursing through our bloodstream—there’s an enormous influence from food. But society then became fully entrenched in the idea that mental health is a genetic or a chemical imbalance, which worked too well for pharmaceutical marketing.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

This shift began with the influence of the American Psychiatric Association’s third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III), published in 1980. The healer’s focus, then, is not on treating the body or mind directly, but on removing the negative spiritual influence believed to be affecting the person.

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Workplace Insight

JULY 5, 2024

They advocate for change, influencing health policy locally and globally, and translate research into practical policies that improve health outcomes for populations worldwide. These professionals are in demand across healthcare providers, research institutions, pharmaceutical firms, and governmental bodies.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I believe all of the existing health entities—providers, health insurance companies, the FDA, the pharmaceutical industry, and managed care—cannot and will not make needed changes to improve the quality of healthcare and to lower the cost as well. How do we get more science rather than propaganda to shape current healthcare delivery?

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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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Vantage Circle

MARCH 21, 2020

I once worked at an organization, and my department worked on connecting pharmaceutical companies with government officials. personal life issues that influence their level of commitment. Here’s the holy trinity of company management mistakes that force employees to leave. You Spread Them Thin. the experience that they can apply.

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Virgin Pulse Corporate Wellness

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Critical factors such as lifestyle habits and environmental influences, known as Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) , often play a more substantial role. SDOH are  nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes. What happens at work influences life; what happens in life shows up at work.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

In marketing any product, from laundry detergent to prescription drugs to luxury automobiles, marketers know the key is to keep it simple, and the pharmaceutical industry certainly has learned this lesson well.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It doesn’t matter what the outside influence or the diagnosis is, you are still in control of your own life. So I just thought that maybe I needed to change pharmaceuticals, not change who I was and my perspective. People don’t like to hear that, but at the end of the day, we are all at the center of the universe.

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 27, 2017

It was a healthcare-related nonprofit, and the articles indicated that the organization was funded and heavily influenced by corporate pharmaceutical companies despite portraying itself as an advocate for patients. I have done a Google search recently and have uncovered no more investigative articles along the same lines.

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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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