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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. was given a slap on the wristjust had to take some continuing education coursesand hes still practicing today. At the time, I didnt know much about it, but I knew it wasnt good. I told Richard, Look, this stuff isnt good for you.

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The American Journal of Psychiatry’s Answer to MIA: A Silence that Speaks Volumes

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O n September 9, Mad in America set up a petition on change.org urging the American Journal of Psychiatry to retract its 2006 article that told of a 67% remission rate in the STAR*D trial. At that time, we put up a petition on change.org urging that the Am J of Psychiatry retract the 2006 article. Mad in America, a U.S.

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

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Here is the cover from that issue: In his essay, Miller repeatedly stressed that ever since 2006, the STAR*D study had stood “out as a beacon guiding treatment decisions.” To conduct this campaign, the NIMH enlisted “labor, religious, educational groups” and businesses to help spread its message.

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“I’m Truly Scared for What This Could Mean”

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Jenna As an individual with ADHD and a public school educator, I hope and pray they dont do anything to make meds even harder to get. To support our mission of providing ADHD education and support, please consider subscribing. However, for me, its like a completely new life with stimulants. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 27(1):1-10.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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A 2006 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, “ The Naturalistic Course of Major Depression in the Absence of Somatic Therapy ,” examined depressed patients who had recovered from an initial episode of depression, then relapsed but did not take any medication following their relapse.

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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 The education system has become an artificial incubation chamber in which a child is sequestered from outside life.

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

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When my book was published in 2006, I was doing ok, but it didn’t last long. In the last few years, I have met two educators in different parts of the country. Neither of them were medical themselves but both qualified teachers and had the academic credentials to be recognised as experts in education.