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"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine"
Marcia Angell, “Drug companies & doctors: a story of corruption," NY Review of Books, 56 #1, 15 Jan
> Reagan gutted both the EPA and the FDA as part of his “war on big government” and no one has ever restored their funding back to a level where they can be useful.
This is utter drivel. The FDA is broken due to corruption, not lack of funding. Giving a corrupt entity more money is insane. Here, read this book written by a doctor who was editor of The New England Journal of Medicine for 2 decades.
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844
>The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. This is what makes drugs so different from anything else in life...Virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors...the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe. The patients don't realise that, although their doctors may know a lot about diseases and human physiology and psychology, they know very, very little about drugs that hasn't been carefully concocted and dressed up by the drug industry.
About the Author
>Professor Peter C Gøtzsche graduated as a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician in 1984. He is a specialist in internal medicine; he worked with clinical trials and regulatory affairs in the drug industry 1975–83, and at hospitals in Copenhagen 1984–95. He co-founded The Cochrane Collaboration in 1993 and established The Nordic Cochrane Centre the same year. He became professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis in 2010 at the University of Copenhagen., Peter Gøtzsche has published more than 50 papers in ‘the big five’ (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and New England Journal of Medicine) and his scientific works have been cited over 10000 times., Peter Gøtzsche has an interest in statistics and research methodology. He is a member of several groups publishing guidelines for good reporting of research and has co-authored CONSORT for randomised trials (www.consort-statement.org), STROBE for observational studies (www.strobe-statement.org), PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (www.prisma-statement.org), and SPIRIT for trial protocols (www.spirit-statement.org). Peter Gøtzsche is an editor in the Cochrane Methodology Review Group.
And is most likely heavily cut with fentanyl. The cartels buy precursor chemicals from China and make the fentanyl in labs in Mexico. Highly concentrated fentanyl is smuggled into the US at much lower risk since the size of the shipments are so small. Then fillers are added in the states and pills are pressed for final distribution. I just read the book Fentanyl Inc so this is fresh in my mind right now.
> Less drug psychosis when china was locked down (chemicals for the meth factories came from china?)
Read <em>Fentanyl, Inc</em> - author goes to China and finds what are essentially factories that make fentanyl and other drugs. Also a lot of designer drug labs in China (and other places) that are willing to make anything for a price.
No. No more drugs. If you want to read a good book on psychotropic medications read anatomy of an epidemic. I was blown away to see that these drugs do absolutely nothing but harm people. We've all bought into this idea that somehow there's better living through pharmaceuticals. Nope.
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844
>The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs. This is what makes drugs so different from anything else in life...Virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors...the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe. The patients don't realise that, although their doctors may know a lot about diseases and human physiology and psychology, they know very, very little about drugs that hasn't been carefully concocted and dressed up by the drug industry.
About the Author
>Professor Peter C Gøtzsche graduated as a Master of Science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician in 1984. He is a specialist in internal medicine; he worked with clinical trials and regulatory affairs in the drug industry 1975–83, and at hospitals in Copenhagen 1984–95. He co-founded The Cochrane Collaboration in 1993 and established The Nordic Cochrane Centre the same year. He became professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis in 2010 at the University of Copenhagen., Peter Gøtzsche has published more than 50 papers in ‘the big five’ (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and New England Journal of Medicine) and his scientific works have been cited over 10000 times., Peter Gøtzsche has an interest in statistics and research methodology. He is a member of several groups publishing guidelines for good reporting of research and has co-authored CONSORT for randomised trials (www.consort-statement.org), STROBE for observational studies (www.strobe-statement.org), PRISMA for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (www.prisma-statement.org), and SPIRIT for trial protocols (www.spirit-statement.org). Peter Gøtzsche is an editor in the Cochrane Methodology Review Group.
Doctors love antidepressants.
They love the money they make from prescribing them.
If you want to read an amazing book on the failure of these medications to produce results then check out Anatomy of an Epidemic.
This book also includes a section on benzodiazepines.
Antidepressants, when taken long-term, can increase a person's risk of significant side effects. Please see this excellent book.
If the antidepressant is helping you, feel free to keep taking it. If it's not helping, please strongly consider discontinuing it. You might want to first ask a doctor or pharmacist whether cold-turkey is fine or whether a gradual taper is better.
If we think of any other suggestions, do you want to hear them?
(I'm a psychology student, not a doctor or pharmacist.)
> most doctors are 0% captured by big pharma. go look at the data.
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare/dp/1846198844
>The book addresses, in evidence-based detail, an extraordinary system failure caused by widespread crime, corruption, bribery and impotent drug regulation in need of radical reforms. "The main reason we take so many drugs is that drug companies don't sell drugs, they sell lies about drugs.
>This is what makes drugs so different from anything else in life...Virtually everything we know about drugs is what the companies have chosen to tell us and our doctors...the reason patients trust their medicine is that they extrapolate the trust they have in their doctors into the medicines they prescribe. The patients don't realize that, although their doctors may know a lot about diseases and human physiology and psychology, they know very, very little about drugs that hasn't been carefully concocted and dressed up by the drug industry
Relevant to this announcement but I think also required reading for everyone: Who Owns the CDC?. And if anyone is too reverent to authority to accept such an argument from anyone other than an authority, here's someone who was editor of the New England Journal of Medicine - one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world - making the same argument 17 years ago: The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Medicines-Organised-Crime-Healthcare-dp-1846198844/dp/1846198844/ref=mt\_other?\_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
Bipolar type 2 is a bullshit diagnosis. Anybody diagnosed as bipolar type 2 is misdiagnosed.You’re not bipolar. You’re depressed. That’s all. Read Anatomy of an Epidemic
Loll. Meatball. He would look right at home on top of a pile of spaghetti.
And I’ve read plenty on the pharmaceutical industry to help form my views as well. Here’s a great one if you’re interested:
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients https://www.amazon.com/dp/0865478066/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_CNN8ETVR570EZRK086QS
However, there’s something much more honest about someone having to defend their views, in real time, without having years to carefully craft their words while only displaying evidence that supports their ideas.
Read Anatomy of an Epidemic and find a new shrink.
Seriously. That’s a must read if they’re trying to suck you into being a lifelong mental patient.
You keep using these virtue signals about working people or socialist countries. This doesn't serve the purpose you want and frankly comparing them to some of the most wealthy forces of corporate colonialism is dubious and requires more than just virtue signaling. Furthermore, it ignores how western corporations intentionally dismantle other cultural alternatives in order to create new markets for their drugs, using the USs own failed mental health system as a model. It also fails to account for the doctors, anthropologists etc. who sell themselves out to corporations and help them achieve their goals.
This doesnt disqualify anything but the overzealous, dogmatic defense of overusing pharmaceuticals for mental health purposes and the denial that it doesnt help on population level studies and may have unforseen consequences. SSRI pharmaceuticals are not the totality of psycharitry or medicine, whats absurd is suggesting it is in order to save face for quackery.
Im NOT saying this to demand that people stop taking drugs that they believe are helping them. What im saying is that we dont know WHY it helps when it does and that predictably it is not helpful. This is why people have to try several drugs before thry find one that "works for them."
Idk how to upload a pdf from my phone because im a boomer so here are 2 books with bookstore links that ive read on the subject while in a class on global perspectives on mental health.
https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-Astonishing-ebook/dp/B0036S4EGE
https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Like-Us-Globalization-American/dp/1416587098
Also yes doctors in the US and corporate researchers are not the laboring wretched masses of the world, their social realtion to productivity is a reliance on the stolen spoils from imperialized nations. Stop white washing the proletariat.
Highly recommend "Empire of Pain" to really see how shitty the Sacklers and their companies truly are. Wretched people and illustrates the degree to which we value money and corporations over other humans:
You're wise to taper, but you're tapering too fast.
> Is there a better way to taper?
Yes. Please see the comment by /u/One_Pianist_4114.
> I also have medical marijuana for anxiety and panic attacks and I worry that by using both I might be doing something wrong
If you take both cannabis and mental-health drugs, it's ideal to have one single doctor who prescribes both. If you don't have this, at least try to tell each doctor what the other doctor has been prescribing, and at what dose.
I don't think that SSRI drugs (e.g. fluoxetine) or benzodiazepine drugs (e.g. Valium, Xanax, clonazepam) are generally wise treatment choices for anxiety or panic attacks. See, for example, <u>Anatomy of an Epidemic</u> by Robert Whitaker.
A.) Have you tried CBT or any other psychotherapy?
B.) Do you exercise? If so, how often?
C.) If we think of any other suggestions, do you want them?
The New Yorker magazine really started the exposure with their article:
The Family That Built an Empire of Pain
That led to a book which gives a blistering takedown of the Sackler crime family:
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
I got the book from my local library and it's required reading.
> That being said, it’s messed up you came to the most expensive city it the us with an animal you can’t support and thought you wouldn’t end up in this situation.
have you read this incredibly well written, in-depth article about drug addiction and Philly being the "walmart of heroin?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/magazine/kensington-heroin-opioid-philadelphia.html
SF is the west coast version of this. it is a mecca for drugs and people come for the drugs, get trapped in the lifestyle, end up on the streets, can't quit and never leave.
opiates got us here. OP has post hx re: detoxing from heroin, wouldn't be surprised if they're struggling with this.
Empire of Pain about the sackler family and purdue pharma covers this extensively: https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Pain-History-Sackler-Dynasty/dp/0385545681
I don't have any solutions, but that's the source of the problem.
Definitely do not use either drug, unless you have a very serious medical need for it. See <u>Anatomy of an Epidemic</u> by Robert Whitaker, and especially the chapter which covers ADHD stimulant drugs.
They also have notoriously poor quality assurance/control and very limited regulatory oversight. Just as greedy as American pharma only they turn their profits by cutting corners. Famous case study outlined here: https://www.amazon.com/Bottle-Lies-Inside-Story-Generic/dp/0062338781
Just ordered the book about polio based on your post, cant wait to read it.
One of the best books I've ever read I got from a post here on r/conspiracy. Bad pharma, (a book about how drug companies rig trials & data to get the results they need) coincidently was written by a guy who now works for oxford (think AstraZeneca) and has the words "get vaccinated" in between his first and last name on twitter. Book was written long before covid.
This book is an in depth, meticulously researched work by Dr. Ben Goldacre
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients https://www.amazon.com/dp/0865478066/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_888CM6FZZB5RXQR4PY63
If you don’t wanna trudge through the 500 pages or so, I’d suggest finding a well respected podcast featuring him from 6 or 7 years ago when the book was released.
Probably breaking internet rule numero uno, lol, but if you dm me your mailing address, I’ll just mail it over to ya. It’s lived a good life with me so far, happy to pass it on.
If that’s weird, (which i get lol) here’s the Amazon link.
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients https://www.amazon.com/dp/0865478066/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_888CM6FZZB5RXQR4PY63
The “they” is referring to pharmaceutical companies/ lobbyists and their entanglement with regulating agencies, which bleeds into media and public health policy.
To what extent you think this choreographed system is corrupted is debatable, but denying it exists is willfully ignorant. When a certain level of corruption is basically implied, how is your average person expected to decipher where the bullshit ends?
If you’re interested in some pre-pandemic reading on the subject, this book is fantastic and horrifying at the same time.
In THEORY she is right, but as proved countless, countless times, the generic pharma market has failed and committed outright fraud and bribery without remorse
Great investigative journalism book on this topic: https://www.amazon.com/Bottle-Lies-Inside-Story-Generic/dp/0062338781
I would recommend the book Anatomy of an Epidemic before you consider any psychiatric medications. I would also do your own research on Robert Whitaker (the author of the book) because it may change the way you look at the entire field of psychiatry so drastically that you'll want to know that it wasn't written by a quack.
As for ADHD, personally I think is just one of the names we've given to a (specific) giant mismatch of modern environment, activities, and goals juxtaposed against your natural instincts which were deigned by nature to maximize survival and gene replication in a stone age environment.
Completely agree. And doctors don't know shit about antidepressants either. Really good book on this is Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whittaker.
Definitely worth a read.