Tag: pharma

Another pharma rep comes clean

And here is a news segment with three different ex-drug reps.

NAMI’s Betrayal of Its Constituency

I'm on Vera Sharav's mailing list and asked permission today to reprint what she sent out today. Thank you Vera. ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION NAMI's Betrayal of Its Constituency -- By Vera Sharav A Catalyst for Public Debate: Promoting Openness, Full Disclosure, and Accountability Senator Charles Grassley has hit the bull's eye when he... Continue Reading →

Drug induced dementia — the perfect crime (Grace Jackson, MD)

New book by Grace Jackson. Below is a description with permission from the author to reprint: Under the influence of declining birth rates, expanding longevity, and changing population structures around the world, the global prevalence of senile dementia is expected to increase more than four-fold within the next forty years.    Within the United States alone,... Continue Reading →

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Critique of our drug culture

Some excerpts from a piece off the Huffington Post by Francesca  Biller-Safron It's difficult to remember when the slightly abnormal and "normal" physical and mental characteristics began hysterically calling for immediate medications in order to stop, start, maintain or prevent anything from happening at all, with some side effects worse than the diagnoses itself.... ...There... Continue Reading →

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About debilitating chronic illness (including protracted psych drug withdrawal)

red and blue abstract painting for chronic illness

Update 2026: as a piece of internet history I will remind folks that in 2009 we were only beginning to understand what the internet could do. at that point the networking that was happening had never happened before and it was thrilling. I found this written by a woman name Ricky Buchanan. I've discovered by... Continue Reading →

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Dharma not pharma — by Leah Ida Harris

abstract colorful bent straws pattern design for dharma not pharma

By Leah Ida Harris Having spent my entire adolescence either medicated on psychotropic drugs or trying to kill myself (in large part due to the side effects of psychotropic drugs I was on), one could say that I never really developed any coping skills. After I escaped the system, my habit was to get lost in activity.  At first it was academic achievement – supposedly to prove to myself that I had value and something to contribute.  But it never brought satisfaction.  I always felt inferior to the other students, even if my grades were high.  Below the surface, there was always a nagging sense of something being wrong.  Often I would get pangs of panic and dread twisting my stomach, for reasons I could not fathom...

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Big pharma’s reach is everywhere

This story has been brewing for a while---pharma corruption in the Nobel Prize process. The drugs in question (the vaccines) are highly controversial and AstraZeneca has been pushing real hard to have every 11 year old girl vaccinated (specifically with Gardasil.) There are a lot of problems and side effects associated with them including death.... Continue Reading →

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Direct to consumer advertising or pharma corruption 101

I wrote this about a year and a half ago. It's been updated and slightly edited. Most of this info is probably patently obvious to many of my readers, but I know the enormity of this stuff really just started hitting me a couple of years ago, so I think it's worth talking about here... Continue Reading →

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