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That’s the stunning statistic, from a Reuters article, courtesy of Ken Pope.
Saying 18 U.S. veterans commit suicide every day, a lawyer representing veterans’ groups asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the government to provide better mental health care.
“The system, your honor, has crashed, it has been overwhelmed,” Arturo Gonzalez told Judge Samuel Conti. [...]
Posted in Big Pharma, consumer interest, psychology in the media, psychotropic drugs, public interest on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
If this trend continues, it promises to be good news:
Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff and students in all 129 of the nation’s medical colleges, an influential college association has concluded….
Drug companies spend billions of dollars wooing doctors — more than [...]
Posted in PTSD, psychology in the media, public interest on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two quotes from a Wall Street Journal article, courtesy of Ken Pope, on the depression, stress, and PTSD experienced by military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan:
A Rand Corp. study released this month said 20% of the roughly 1.6 million military personnel who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. [...]
Posted in Big Pharma, consumer interest, persuasion, psychology in the media, psychotherapy on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Art of promotion. From PsychCentral, the discrepancy between promoting drugs and promoting good talk therapy:
This is a problem I’ve long noted — that every time a drug gets released or new research is published about it, the drug company makes sure you and everyone else knows about it. Through press releases, news brief, and numerous [...]
Posted in Big Pharma, depression, psychotropic drugs on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
From the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the official facts and figures on major depression:
Major Depressive Disorder is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. for ages 15-44.
Major depressive disorder affects approximately 14.8 million American adults, or about 6.7 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year.
While major [...]
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