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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold This move “transformed pharmaceutical outfits into companies who market drugs rather than companies who manufacture drugs for the market.”

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

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Much as the court-watching movement shines a light on the unjust workings of the criminal-legal system , Shield activists show up to virtual hearings like Russell’s as witnesses to the injustices of the civil commitment system. Why does a religious organization have legal rights over a man’s life and body in a supposedly secular state?”

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

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Bristol Myers, along with the many other manufacturing plants located in the surrounding area, helped to grow and strengthen our local economy. By the mid-2000s, because of cheaper costs to manufacture penicillin in foreign countries, the plant downsized considerably.

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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 am certain that this is what happened to me at the age of 22 back in 2005 when I became suicidal only months after abruptly stopping paroxetine. Electroconvulsive Therapy, Manufacturers Liability, and Learned Intermediaries. 2022, June 19). Gardner, H.,