06th Jun 2013
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Print Ads for Antidepressants and Psych Meds: Largest Collection

I am pleased to say that I’ve searched and researched a fair bit and determined that Practice of Madness is host to the largest collection of print ads for antidepressants and...

13th May 2013
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Vintage Advertising for Psych Meds: New Gallery

09th May 2013
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The Funniest Psych Med Advertisement…

Sure, this one’s a giggle… And this one’s a real chuckle: …but the, what is the funniest psychopharmacological print ad I’ve seen since “Thorazine for Cancer”?  (hint: it features two...

28th Apr 2013
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Latuda: A New Atypical Antipsychotic, More of the Same

While checking out an article on “Medical News Today” about information released to the public in Japan related to SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) related “hostility and violence”.  Japan also...

20th Aug 2012
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A Zoloft Zombie: Why I Have a New Understanding of SSRIs and Suicide

    Remember these ZOLOFT commercials from the 1990s?… ZOLOFT (to capitalize the name of the drug, as is done in the print ads, which I will do throughout this...

20th Jul 2012
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“Triple Threat”: Many New Vintage Psychiatric Drug Ads Added to Gallery…

Why stop one psych med that has bad side-effects when you can simply prescribe another? (sorry parents of wannabe child-stars, this has nothing to do with singing, acting, or dancing,...

01st Feb 2012
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New Vintage Psychiatric Drug/Pharmaceutical Ads: The Biggest Gallery Yet!

These are merely an introduction… [cincopa AkAA00K2HweY] I happened upon a serious vault of print ads, past and more recent, and most are those that only appear in magazines for...

01st Dec 2011
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Ten New Vintage Pharma Print Ads (for Thorazine)

My wonderful brother of spirit and soul, and fellow psychiatric survivor (who I met first on this little website, and then hopped a plane to be with him in person...

18th Sep 2011
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Pristiq Wind-up Doll Goes to the Beach

…in this current advertisement in American “women’s” magazines (incl.”First for Women”, “Women’s World”, and others that litter check-out stands across North America that would have one think that we still...

01st Jun 2011
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Things are Not that Black and White!: Racialization of Female Bodies and the Controversy Over the White and Black Pristiq Dolls

Back in September of last year, I posted this when I was shocked to see that to market their “new” antidepressant Pristiq (after all it is only an isomer of...

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