Tag: financial
Sitting in the lap of Big Pharma
Following a recent BBC documentary on antidepressants(2023), I was set on a path of deeper inquiry about psychotropic medications and the relationship of Big Pharma to psychiatrists as a group. Then my colleague S.D. got me reading: The Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. I was driven to do some digging about Big Pharma’s ‘offences’ in general and then sieved the list down to psychotropic medications. Note our disclaimers. This information is gathered from the publicRead More …
Pandemic lash on mental health
This article will deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health. It is important at the outset to briefly review how the pandemic was realised, appreciate the depth and breath of the impact on health services in general – then drill down into what happened with mental health. I will focus on what economic stress may mean for the future. This post is a foundation for the follow up post: Health debt – the post-pandemic trauma. PreambleRead More …