Comments on: Psychiatrists And Pharma: Undue Influence?

By: Robert Leys

Robert Leys — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:03:08 +0000

I am currently forced to take 300mg daily of Seroquel XR AGAINST MY WILL, because of a Community Treatment Order that does not expire until the 21st December 2010. This is DESPITE Seroquel BEING THE CAUSE OF DIABETES, OBESITY & DOUBLING THE RISK OF A FATAL PNEUMONIA ATTACK in the ELDERLY……..I am 66 years old, am borderline DIABETIC and am 23 kg (50 pounds) OVERWEIGHT after being prescribed 75 mg Zyprexa (Olanzapine) from September 2003 until March 2010, which I took religiously every day, despite Zyprexa being NOTORIOUS for PATIENT OBESITY. It appears that DOCTORS & PARTICULARLY PSYCHIATRISTS are MORE INTERESTED in getting KICKBACKS from the BIG PHARMA COMPANIES for PRESCRIBING HIGH DOSES OF ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS than in the PHYSICAL HEALTH & WELLBEING of their PATIENTS.

By: sadnessaddiction

sadnessaddiction — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:19:33 +0000

Antidepressant advertising is directly targeted at manipulating normal healthy women to want to be medicated. Women must stand up to big pharma’s bullying them to over-medicate with antidepressants washing out their emotions & personalities and interfering being mothers, sisters, brothers, daughters, partners and lovers.. Women are targeted for antidepressants by big Pharma in the same way that tobacco companies targeted us 70 years ago. Drug companies are so effective at selling unhappiness to women that women take more than twice as many antidepressants as men. Like effexor Wyeth/Pfizer plans on using modern marketing techniques and direct payments to doctors to have Pristiq over prescribed instead of used based on evidence based diagnosis. http://sadnessaddiction.blogspot.com/

By: pharmavet

pharmavet — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:03:30 +0000

There are so many stories of the now well accepted corruption of the psychiatric profession by pharmaceutical influence that I wonder whether anyone on these boards has ceased to be amazed by them, like me.

I believe that the ultimate influence has filtered down to the American Board of Psychiatry, which certifies psychiatrists in the practice of psychiatry. Board certification is an ever-increasing necessity to have for many reasons. Like most students, psychiatry residents will study hardest for what they anticipate will be on the Board Exams. The feedback thet I get from newly Board-certified psychiatrists is the exam is at least 50% psychopharmacology, with increasingly less emphasis on the other aspects of training.

This naturally has a trickle-down effect on the psychiatric residency curriculum. Not only is there heavy emphasis on psychopharmacology, but residents are encouraged (or in academia required) to spend time in the resrarch lab on a psychopharmacology project.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:19:03 +0000

Pharma and psychiatry have created this mess…but the public perpetuates the fraud with the belief that life should be puppies and butterflies at all times.
Lose a loved one…take a pill, lose a job…take a pill, tired one day….take a pill.
People have bought into the hype and until we stop the demand side, the supply side will continue.
Life isn’t perfect, never was never will be, but if society continues to search for Nirvana in a pill box, the cycle will continue.

By: SteveM

SteveM — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:51:17 +0000

Psychiatrists And Pharma: Undue Influence?

That question is OBE. The train has left the station. Normative psychiatry has morphed into a drug culture.

Money no longer influences psychiatrists to prescribe drugs. A script is the product of almost every patient engagement even without monetary inducements. Money only influences what drugs the psychiatrists prescribe.

By: tiller

tiller — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:06:40 +0000

saw somewhere Evelyn that Senator Grassley has inquires into a bunch of them.

By: Evelyn Pringle

Evelyn Pringle — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:00:44 +0000

NAMI certainly deserves every criticism mentioned above but by now there are several other front groups that are equally guilty of accepting Pharma’s money to do PR work.

For instance Mental Health America, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, and Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder.

I’ve got the research that shows theses groups get just as much of their funding from Pharma as NAMI does and yet NAMI is the only front group singled whenever this topic comes up.

By: Truthseeker

Truthseeker — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:24:45 +0000

NAMI is an organization that needs to be throughly investigated. Their undue influence, in the provision of treatment and services to mental health clients, by Public Mental Health System of Care, has been the major factor, as to why the ‘first line to treatment’ is with toxic, brain disabling chemicals.

While it is obvious that they would promote these chemicals, on behalf of their Pharmaceutical Company Sponsor(s) it is also questionable as to why the Government has allowed them to be the primary voice to influence mental health policy and to continuously refer parents, of mental health clients to this corrupt organization.

The indoctrination, by NAMI, in their “Family to Family” program agenda, also sponsored by the government and Big Pharma also raises concern.

NAMI has organized themselves not unlike the NAZI’s had done and gained the undeserved and corrupt influence that they have been allowed, for so many years,imo. Why parent’s are so ignorant as to keep supporting this activity, in light of the obviousness of the expose’s, adverse effects and deaths caused by these chemicals and corrupt influence is unconscionable.

Wake up NAMI membership!!! Your activities have harmed and killed enough innocent Children, Adults and Seniors.

By: pharmavet

pharmavet — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:24:41 +0000

I run into a lot of people in Pharma whom I would have no other way to describe other than neurotic or narcissistic. They could benefit from intensive psychoanalysis. On the other hand there are some pharmaceutical executives, as referred to on these boards that could not be classified as neurotic. Since neurosis pertains to conflicts between desires and conscience, and since many of these individuals have no conscience, they could not be considered as neurotic; psychotic perhaps, but not neurotic.

By: Betsy

Betsy — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:07:40 +0000

Addressing the influence of the pharma industry on the psychiatric community, do not forget the major practise of disease mongering wherein the DSM, once a small manual in the early 50’s is now a huge compendium of diseases invented by big Pharma in order to sell drugs.