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News: Reform medicine, say authors
iStock photo Stories about conflicts-of-interest in psychiatry are percolating regularly, and MIWatch readers will not be surprised by Dr. Marcia Angell's review of three books taking aim at doctors, regulatory agencies, academic medical centers and drug companies. "So many reforms would be necessary to restore integrity to clinical research and medical practice," writes the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, "that they cannot be summarized briefly." Angell has written extensively about these issues....
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Film: "Another Kind of VALOR"

Interviews: Q & A with Ron Manderscheid: agenda for reform


Dr. Ron Manderscheid, a national leader in policy and research about mental health and substance use care, discusses goal of the Whole Health Campaign with MIWatch.
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Film: Men Get Depression
“I would literally stare at [my computer] for an hour before doing anything.” . . . “I don’t want to think about anything, I don’t want to move. . . just leave me alone.” . . . “I was verbally abusive to people around me.” . . .“the only emotion that I showed was anger.”. . .“I had a high degree of anxiety; I had a sense of loss of self-worth.” This is how men describe what it feels...
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Consider This: More on pharma influence
More on pharma: tracking prescribing habits of doctors, and the FDA.
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Consider This: Pharma influence grows
Pharms spends more on lobbying while we spend more on drugs.
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Consider This: Northern Illinois University
Events at Northern Illinois University remind us that complex problems need complex answers.
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Consider This: Bush budget bad news
Phyllis Vine

With 84 million people suffering from mental illness and substance abuse disorders, Bush budget proposals are entirely insufficient. Now it's up to Congress, and the rest of us to respond.
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Consider This: Mental illness and public safety: let's tell the truth
by Phyllis Vine

As measures to protect public safety with gun laws move through state houses, too often the word "dangerous" is being used to modify "mental illness." Do laudable efforts to halt violence belong on the shoulders of people with a mental illness? Isn't it time we started to wrestle with the truth?
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