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A Relationship Imbalance, Not A Chemical Imbalance

Mad in America

Psychiatry, along with the pharmaceutical industry, have been ostensibly busy looking for causes of mental distress but, unfortunately, they are looking in the wrong place. Drug sales plummeted during this period, from 1973 until about 1980. Drugs like Valium had fallen into disrepute for their addictive qualities.

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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

Depression was sold to us as a simple problem of serotonin insufficiency, a convenient narrative that made drug companies like Eli Lilly, Forest Pharmaceuticals, and Pfizer very rich. As a former pharmaceutical advertising writer, I not only witnessed the explosive growth in antidepressant drugs, I contributed to it.

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America’s Unhealthy Relationship with Antidepressants

Mad in America

The advent of SSRIs in the 1980s and 1990s came with the typical psychiatric sales pitch that these medications protect against adverse outcomes of depression, particularly suicidal behavior, and that they are life-saving. That is not so.

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It’s a No-Brainer: Living Proof We Are More Than Our Parts

Mad in America

It’s phrenology with a better sales pitch. Because pharmaceutical companies need targets. And psychiatry serves the pharmaceutical industry. But they sound scientific. That’s the point. It’s not a breakthrough. It’s camouflage. The same broken theory, just rewrapped for the next grant cycle. Because they’re easy to teach.

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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

Insperity

Partnering with large associations, agencies or industry experts is a good way to shorten your go-to-market life cycle and possibly your sales cycle as well. Provide an incremental lift to enterprise sales and revenue. Create predictable revenue streams. Different partnerships to serve different needs.

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HR Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industries

Vantage Circle

All of which will imply how the pharmaceutical industry is likely to conduct its business in the near future. Be it sales and distribution or product discovery and development. Major HR Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industries. Pharmaceutical roles are mostly research-intensive and do not follow a fixed schedule.

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Labor trends to watch in 2024: A U.S. economic outlook and sector play-by-play

Work Life

Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical companies have had a difficult year: the industry is grappling with softening demand for COVID-19-related products. And many small to midsize pharmaceuticals are still looking for funding and partnerships to move their products forward in clinical trials.