Dangerous Psychiatric Fads
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Selling Sickness: How Drug Companies are Turning Us All Into Patients
The Problem of Inflated Efficacy in Psychiatry Journals
Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship
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
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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Dr. Jason Fung: Financial Conflicts of Interests and the End of Evidence-Based Medicine
The government has a moral duty to help those harmed by prescribed dependence forming drugs
This “ open letter by healthcare professionals ” calls for specialist NHS services to support patients harmed by taking prescription medications. Published in the British Medical Journal, the letter begins: “This week, BBC1’s Panorama drew sharp attention to the problem of prescribed drug dependence and…
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The Antidepressant Story
