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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

Mad in America

I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Mad in America

McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. About twenty years ago in 2005, I was 22 years old and in severe distress. An abridged account of my experience is on Mental Health Today (C. Anwar , Rep. Dubey, 2018).