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Medicated Minds: How Big Pharma Turned Mental Health into a Prescription Business

The Mental Health Medication Boom Mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder have long affected people worldwide. However, the last few decades...

New EU leaders dogged by corruption allegations

The newly chosen heads of the European Union’s top three institutions have come under public scrutiny due to corruption allegations. EU leaders recently agreed on...

NIH scientists made $710M in royalties from drug makers — a fact they tried to hide

During the pandemic, the American people started to feel that Big Government was very cozy with Big Pharma. Now we know just how close they...

Youth no longer shy of seeking psychiatric help: Gen Z demand for mental health drugs lifts

Antidepressants and mood elevators are among the highest-sold medicine categories as the country's youth increasingly seek help for mental health disorders. One upside is that Gen Z do not...

Big Pharma Is Hijacking the Information Doctors Need Most

Back in 1982, when I first began my career as a family practitioner in a small town of Boston, I was confident that the...

The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Role in U.S. Medical Education

In 1993, the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure concluded that diuretics and beta-blockers are the preferred...

How profit and professional interests have misled us about antidepressants

Our umbrella review that revealed no links between serotonin and depression has caused shock waves among the general public, but been dismissed as old news by psychiatric opinion...

Mental health and addiction care falls short because it’s not profitable

Some of America's most challenging behavioral health care problems include a key disadvantage: They're not very profitable to treat. Why it matters: Serious mental illness and addiction have a profound...

How Big Pharma got out of the business of curing people

Since the neo-liberal revolution of the 1980s pharmaceutical companies have super charged their profiteering, at the expense of patients. In this edited extract from...

‘Patient influencers’ paid by Big Pharma to mislead followers: report

A recent study found that patient influencers are being paid by big pharmaceutical companies to make content that might mislead their social media followers. There’s...
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Baltimore settles opioid lawsuit with Johnson & Johnson

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Why Big Pharma wants the government to pay it to make drugs

Pharmaceutical companies are asking the federal government to help...