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

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Siem: Around 2005 or 2006? 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.

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That Others May Live: An Airman’s Mental Health and Medication Hurricane

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When my grandmother died in 2005, my struggles deepened and I was prescribed a second set of SSRIs. I spent the next three months in and out of partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs for substance use and post-traumatic stress. During that deployment, my mother passed away in 2001. At last, I am truly healing.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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About twenty years ago in 2005, I was 22 years old and in severe distress. I made a few significant suicide attempts, broke my feet and legs, fractured my spine, and was hospitalized at San Francisco General Hospital and then Hartford Hospital. Psychiatric Hospitals Can Still Force Patients to Accept Shock Treatment.