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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. Its basically legal speed, and it can have some really bad effects. His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. We were coming off the popularity of Ritalin, and now it was Adderall.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

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As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In 2006, the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) published four reports on STAR*D outcomes. There was one other red flag.

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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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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.