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

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I hope that by telling it, I can help others find a better way to manage their own healthcare, diagnoses, and whatever medications they may or may not choose to take. Siem: Around 2005 or 2006? He started college in 2004, so this would have been 2005 or 2006. No lettersbefore or after my name. Its an amphetamine. I was shocked.

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

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Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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

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I don’t think there’s enough actual oversight, whether civilian or governmental, of the mental health system, and it does a ton of harm.” While the ongoing logistics of maintaining such a network have proved challenging, one such successful effort in 2006 was documented in The Wall Street Journal.

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