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Are Psychiatric “Medications”Essentially The Same As Recreational Drugs?

by Jeffrey Rubin, PhD

Welcome to From Insults to Respect. Today we shall look at a theory that is certain to fire up some mighty strong emotions. Most advocates within the medical profession say their prescriptions for psychiatric drugs, which they refer to as “medications,” improve the health outcomes for their patients. There are some within the profession that fervently object to this claim and provide extensive research evidence for their…

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The Disrespectable Pharmaceutical Industry

by Jeffrey Rubin, PhD

In recent years, we have been hearing about several unsettling stories involving the pharmaceutical industry, one involving suicide under pressure. Another, about the exorbitant cost of life saving EpiPens. And another, about the deadly selling of addictive pain killers. Suicide Under Pressure On August 11, 2016, the New York Times carried a story titled “Driven to Suicide by an ‘Inhuman and Unnatural’ Pressure to Sell.”…

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