pharmaceutical industry

Antidepressant withdrawal should be taken seriously – we’re investigating ways to help people come off the pills

This article from Mark Horowitz, Joanna Moncrieff and Katharine Wallis has been published by The Conversation. It begins: “Misinformation about antidepressants  is rife  and is probably fuelling their rise in use. Chief among these false ideas are: Antidepressant withdrawal effects are mild and…
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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

This article from David Healy and Harriet Vogt has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “There is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. Even fewer spot…
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The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology

This book has been written by Edward Shorter. The publishers say: “The Age of Psychopharmacology began with a brilliant rise in the 1950s, when for the first time science entered the study of drugs that affect the brain and mind. But, esteemed…
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Dangerous Psychiatric Fads

This article by Dr. Allen Frances (psychiatrist) has been published on Pyschotherapy.net. It begins: “A sad and fairly ubiquitous aspect of human fallibility is that we are extremely suggestable suckers for fashion. Psychiatry is no exception — its history is littered…
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The Problem of Inflated Efficacy in Psychiatry Journals

This article by Dr. Christopher Lane has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “KEY POINTS New research finds widely prescribed drugs are much less effective than their published record suggests. One study saw financial conflicts of interest driving whether unfavorable…
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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

“By embracing the technology-worship “religion,” psychiatry is permitted to ignore the reality of its repeated failures.“ This article by Dr. Bruce Levine has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “How can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its…
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Psychiatric Drugging of Children and Youth as a Form of Child Abuse: Not a Radical Proposition

This research article by Dr. Bonnie Burstow has been published in Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry. The abstract says: “Although affirming that the psychiatric drugging of children constitutes both adultism (oppression based on treating adult behavior as normative) and sanism (oppression based…
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The Making of Adult ADHD: The Rapid Rise of a Novel Psychiatric Diagnosis

“The history of psychiatry is a history of fads in theory, diagnosis, and treatment. Such rapid shifts in conceptualization—such as the emergence of the concept of adult ADHD—almost always warrant informed critical examination.” This article by Mark Ruffalo and S. Nassir…
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Revealed: drug firms funding UK patient groups that lobby for NHS approval of medicines

“Observer investigation shows that majority of Nice drug appraisals involve groups financially linked to maker of pharmaceuticals“ Shanti Das and Jon Ungoed-Thomas report for The Observer: “Drug companies are systematically funding grassroots patient groups that lobby the  NHS  medicines watchdog to approve…
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