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

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Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. In Alan Schwarzs article, he mentioned that from 2007 to 2011, prescriptions for Adderall increased by 250%from 14 million prescriptions to significantly more. He was taking 90 milligrams a dayfar above the recommended dosage. But no one told us.

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Idaho Keeps Some Psych Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice

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Idaho didn’t have any psychiatric hospitals secure enough for patients whose break with reality made them lash out in fear, anger or confusion. Sword said putting prison officials in charge, as lawmakers were contemplating, could violate the civil rights of patients committed by the court for hospitalization.

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

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Clinical Iatrogenesis In medicine, clinical iatrogenesis comprises all conditions for which physicians and other medical professionals, hospitals and other medical facilities, and their treatments are the causes of various types of harm, including death.

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Despite Safety Risks, Prescribers Receive Little Guidance of Monitoring Antipsychotic Clozapine

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Surprisingly, only one guideline, published in Australia in 2007, met the criteria established by the authors. Adding to this growing body of research, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy was found to reduce re-hospitalization and distress for people with psychosis. Smessaert, S., Detraux, J., Desplenter, F., Hert, M.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

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In this blog, he addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality as well as further dangers of psychiatric drugs, including tardive dyskinesia. Does psychiatric hospitalization and medicine save the lives of suicidal patients? At least that’s the “theory” but let’s look at the facts.

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Grief, Bereavement, Public Health, and Me

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Bereaved persons have an increased risk of mortality, hospitalization, and clinical depression 0-6 months after a loss. See “America’s Lack of Bereavement Leave Is Causing a Grief Crisis,” 2022 and “Health outcomes of bereavement,” Stroebe, 2007.) distress, loneliness, and social withdrawal).

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Remembrances of Linda Andre, Leader in the Fight Against ECT

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In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen. Her hospitalizations started in 2010, less than a year after her book was published and before her planned NY Times interview. Forgetting.