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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

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As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. 23,24 In 2013, I estimated that, in people aged 65 and above, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines or similar, and depression drugs kill 209,000 people annually in the United States. for those aged 70-79.

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

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Mom continued to struggle to overcome depression until her death in 2002. No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics.

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Trust Among Those People in Prison, Rising From the Borderlands

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Fear of other men runs deep here in our circle, here in the mad age of othering, here in a windowless building that looks like, from a distance, nothing more than a warehouse for storing things that no one else wants to deal with. New Mexico acupuncture law opened right after in 2002. Their non-cooperation paid the pins forward.