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This Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone

Author: Editorial 29th August 2022 0 Comments

“Increasingly, anxious and depressed teens are using multiple, powerful psychiatric drugs, many of them untested in adolescents or for use in tandem.” This article by Matt Richtel has been published in the New York Times. It begins: “One morning in the…
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antidepressants, children and adolescents, Matt Richtel, New York Times, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Renae Smith

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs

Author: Editorial 18th August 2022 0 Comments

This book (with relevance to the psychiatry’s prescribing of psychotropic drugs on a massive scale) has been written by investigative journalist Melody Petersen. The publishers say: “In an odyssey into the dark side of American medicine, an award-winning journalist reveals how…
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books, marketing, Melody Petersen, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, USA

The Fight for Pharma Accountability and Psychiatric Rights: Jim Gottstein, Esq

Author: Editorial 5th August 2022 0 Comments

Dr. Awais Aftab (psychiatrist) has interviewed Jim Gottstein for the Psychiatric Times. Subtitled “A lawyer weighs in on pharmaceutical corruption and involuntary psychiatric care”. The introduction to the interview begins: “The Zyprexa Papers is a fascinating story of how Gottstein obtained and…
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Awais Aftab, Ely Lilly, Jim Gottstein, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Times, psychiatry, USA, zyprexa

How to take the news that depression has not been shown to be caused by a chemical imbalance

Author: Editorial 27th July 2022 0 Comments

This article is from psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff. It begins: “For decades people have been told that depression is caused by a serotonin deficiency. This was the rationale behind the introduction of the SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) antidepressants in the…
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antidepressants, chemical imbalance theory, depression, Joanna Moncrieff, Molecular Psychiatry, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, serotonin, tapering

A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression

Author: Editorial 25th July 2022 0 Comments

This article by Christopher Lane has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “Almost as soon as it was floated in 1965 by Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Schildkraut, the serotonin hypothesis of depression —reduced and simplified by pharma marketing to the ‘chemical imbalance’…
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antidepressants, chemical imbalance theory, depression, Joanna Moncrieff, Jonathan Leo, Mark Horowitz, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, Psychology Today, serotonin

Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption

Author: Editorial 18th July 2022 0 Comments

This article (published on the medicinehitchiker blog) has been written by Dr. Marcia Angell, former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. It begins: “Recently Senator Charles Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has been looking…
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Alan Schatzberg, bipolar, Charles Grassley, corruption, Dr. Marcia Angell, Joseph Biederman, medicinehitchiker, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry

From FDA to MHRA: are drug regulators for hire?

Author: Editorial 7th July 2022 0 Comments

This article by Maryanne Demasi has been published in the British Medical Journal: “Patients and doctors expect drug regulators to provide an unbiased, rigorous assessment of investigational medicines before they hit the market. But do they have sufficient independence from the companies…
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BMJ, British Medical Journal., drug regulators, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Maryanne Demasi, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, MHRA, pharmaceutical industry

How Drugmakers Influence Our Beliefs About Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 1st July 2022 0 Comments

This article by Markham Heid has been published on the Medium website. It begins: “Nothing burns itself into memory quite like public humiliation. Even now, 20 years later, I can vividly recall the embarrassment I felt the day I tried —…
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Adriane Fugh-Berman, anxiety, Culture & Society, Markham Heid, Medium, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Drugs, Social anxiety disorder

Ethical issues in psychopharmacology

Author: Editorial 13th June 2022 0 Comments

This paper by L. McHenry has been published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The abstract says: “The marketing of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the psychopharmacological industry presents a serious moral problem for the corporate model of medicine. In this…
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antidepressants, ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, L. McHenry, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, psychopharmacology, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRI, SSRIs

The illusion of evidence based medicine

Author: Editorial 12th May 2022 0 Comments

This video from Dr. John Campbell is relevant to mental healthcare, not least in relation to the “evidence” provided to justify the massive prescription of psychotropic drugs:

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clinical drugs trials, evidence-based medicine, pharmaceutical industry, videos