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The loss of client agency into the psychopharmaceutical–industrial complex
How consumers of psychiatry get hooked for life. A brief synopsis from The free library: The psychopharmaceutical industrial complex (PPIC) and its adherence to the disease model pervades mainstream...
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Doug Bremner on Fox News about docs who are paid by pharma
For video click here. This is an excerpt from the accompanying text: Emory’s Dr. Bremner said he thought paying doctors to speak for drug makers was a bad idea. Bremner said he used to do it, until he...
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Dosie awards: Beyond Meds a finalist in these social media pharma awards
Pharma has destroyed my life so I could not miss this opportunity to let them know. I won't let the destruction guide the rest of my life. I'm rising from the ashes to let people know they have options...
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Beyond Meds and Beyond the Dosies
Spit, Bristle and Fury posted commentary on the Dosie’s and the post I published about them yesterday: Gianna Kali’s always informative and often pharma-critical blog, Beyond Meds was up for a Dosie —...
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A Schizophrenia Mystery Solved? by Robert Whitaker
One of the enduring mysteries in schizophrenia research circles has been the disparity in outcomes between schizophrenia patients in “developing countries” and those in “developed” countries. The...
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Just for fun: disturbing stats on BIG PHARMA
Source: Online Colleges and Universities Filed under: big pharma Tagged: pharma, pharmaceutical companies
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Review of Anatomy of an Epidemic by one of it’s casualties
This is a review written by Susan Schechter from If You’re Going Through Hell Keep Going where it was published first. It’s a painfully intimate review that only one of us, those who’ve been harmed,...
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AstraZeneca to Pay $198 Million for Seroquel Lawsuits
This is all over the news and I’m feeling pretty burnt out on all of this so I’ve not been paying much attention. But it is a big deal so here you have it. Seroquel, like all the atypicals can cause...
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Study: Pharma Companies Top Military Industry in Defrauding U.S. Government
Story on Democracy Now A new study by the watchdog group Public Citizen has found that the pharmaceutical drug industry has become the biggest defrauder of the federal government, surpassing the...
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Does your doctor take payment from pharma? See here
I was pretty checked out when all this hit the news a while back and never saw this amazing and useful database that ProPublica put together. One can look at all payments made to physicians in all 50...
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People and Power – investigates fraud and corruption running through the...
Commentary and the video looks at many issues of corruption in pharma.
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United States of Alienation…and some more pharma news
Another piece from War in Context that bears viewing: Mental health in the United States of Alienation — War in Context (there is an)… assumption that it is easier and cheaper to physically or...
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Overseas clinical trials of pharmaceuticals — the globalization of guinea pigs
(WARNING: this isn’t going to be pretty…) In the 1940s, the US Government deliberately infected mentally ill and incarcerated Guatemalans with syphilis – almost 700 people in total. The study design...
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You mean the study partcipant’s priorities are important, BY LAW?
The Short Answer: YES. At the very least, a definite ”maybe”… Let me explain. The Long Answer: What I’m referring to is the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki, a list of ethical...
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Off-label marketing: the competition for “biggest corporate fine” gets juicy
It is so important to admit when you’re wrong. So here goes… When I wrote that Astra-Zeneca paid the biggest corporate fine in American history ($520 million) for the off-label marketing of Seroquel,...
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NIH equates akathisia with “restless leg syndrome”– and Pharma smiles upon them
What does the critically thinking individual do with any doctor’s recommendation? RESEARCH. Does this professional know what he’s talking about? What have the experiences of other patients been?...
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Pharma flees facebook
Facebook apparently used to allow pharma pages to not allow comments from the masses. That has changed and now people can comment about pharma's drugs on their pages. What is happening as a result of...
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Robert Whitaker on Psychiatric Drugs (interview CBC Radio)
Robert Whitaker has argued for years that millions of the people who are prescribed those drugs derive no benefit from them. And in fact, the drugs may make their illness worse. Mr. Whitaker's...
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(Psych) Drug induced dementia — higher rates of Alzheimer’s too
This is not the first time psych drugs have been linked to dementia, but it's certainly not something we hear about often enough. With an aging generation of people who've been on psych meds for their...
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John Oliver on Pharmaceuticals and Doctors (funny AND damning)
This is supposed to be satire...in this instance it's pretty much straight up the truth...I actually have a hard time laughing at this stuff, but I did enjoy it. He's darn witty even if it didn't make...
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