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

Mad in America

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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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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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

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Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. The STAR*D study, published in 2006, is the largest and most expensive study ever done to determine the effectiveness of drug treatments for depression. That has not happened.

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

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Though my aggressive health regimen hadn’t changed, I subsequently failed an Air Force Fitness Test for the first time in 2006. At this time I all but gave up on the VA and instead used my health insurance to access a civilian counselor. When my grandmother died in 2005, my struggles deepened and I was prescribed a second set of SSRIs.

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Dear Mr. Kennedy

ADDitude

44 Behavioral therapy is used by just 44% of pediatric patients, in part because its not always covered by medical insurance and knowledgeable providers are scarce. In addition, neurofeedback is seldom covered by insurance and involves a significant investment of time and money. 2006 Feb;27(1):1-10. 5 when used on their own).

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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Dubey, 2018; Egan, 2018; Ejaredar & Hagen, 2014; Farnsworth, 2016; Grant, 2006; Greer, 2016; Halle & Nelson, 2019; Harris, 2023; Larkin, 2022; Life After ECT Inc., MECTA Electroshock Device Manufacturer Files for Bankruptcy as its Shock Box Loses Liability Insurance. TruthAboutECT.Org. 2022, March 28). TruthAboutECT.Org.