“Science Pimping” Psychiatrist – Nemeroff – took millions of dollars from drugmakers

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BY JOHN DORSCHNER
jdorschner@MiamiHerald.com

Charles Nemeroff
Charles Nemeroff, an Atlanta psychiatrist who was the subject of a Senate investigation concerning huge sums he received from drug companies, has been named chairman of the psychiatry department at the University of Miami.

Last year Nemeroff, as the top psychiatrist at Emory University, was the focus of an investigation by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who said he was concerned about the millions the psychiatrist received from drug companies while conducting supposedly unbiased research for the National Institutes of Health on drugs made by the companies he was receiving money from.

On Thursday, Pascal Goldschmidt, dean of UM medical school, called Nemeroff “an exceptional psychiatrist and an exceptional scientist who has one issue in which he recognizes he made a mistake,” in not telling Emory how much he was getting from drug makers.

Goldschmidt said he had read investigative reports from Emory about Nemeroff’s activities and Emory found nothing to indicate that payments the psychiatrist received had in any way influenced his research results.

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Dangers Of Antidepressants Suppressed (Fox News)

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Addiction, violence and suicide – these are some of the thousands of risks of antidepressants, but you won’t hear about it from your doctor, because he doesn’t know.

Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor, Prozac – how effective are they? Does Big Pharma want you to know? Douglas Kennedy – Fox News.

The risk of suicide at least doubles for children taking antidepressants according to short-term clinical trials.

Antidepressants are compared by researchers to cocaine in the DSM lll.

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Antidepressants exposed! Causes more harm then good

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Senator warns Emory over psychiatrist’s investigation

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By GAYLE WHITE |The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Thursday, December 18, 2008

In a stern letter to Emory University this week, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley questions whether renowned psychiatrist Dr. Charles Nemeroff has honestly portrayed some of his activities funded by pharmaceutical companies.

Grassley warns school officials of the potential penalties for making false statements or obstructing a congressional examination.

Nemeroff, an internationally known expert on depression, has become a central figure in an investigation this year by the Senate Finance Committee into whether drug company money paid to physicians compromises medical research and scholarship. Grassley (R-Iowa) is the ranking minority member of the committee.

Grassley’s letter, obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, questions Emory’s position that some talks by Nemeroff funded by the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline were educational and did not involve promotion of Glaxo products.
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Behavioural problems: are drugs really the answer?

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For almost every behavioural issue, these days there’s a medicine to treat it

Roger Dobson reports
Tuesday, 3 June 2008

Spending too much time on the internet? Worried about a low sex drive, shyness or lack of social skills? Or do you lose your temper too easily, blush too readily or spend too much time and money shopping?

Time was when such behaviours might have been regarded as individual differences, or put down to lack of self control and restraint. But not any more. Increasing numbers of behavioural conditions are being treated with drug therapy. Bereavement issues, blushing, low sex drive, high sex drive, sex addiction, lack of orgasm, gambling, fear of public speaking, stealing, domestic violence and phobias are all being targeted with drugs that are either in clinical trials or already available.

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