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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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He started college in 2004, so this would have been 2005 or 2006. He started working with me at the shop, and I tried to put him on my insurance. Thats when my agent told me,We cant write your insurance because your son is on Vyvanse. I put a lot of blame on insurance companies, too. Siem: Around 2005 or 2006?

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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The 2004 national South Africa Stress and Health study , the first large-scale research project of its kind in the country, found the lifetime prevalence of any DSM mental health diagnosis to be 30.3%. Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer. No, she says. Theres nobody there.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place. A focus on depression in Australia corresponded with similar campaigns in the US and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.