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

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It really hit me when he came home in 2009. His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. Fee: He started working with me at the store in the fall of 2009. was given a slap on the wristjust had to take some continuing education coursesand hes still practicing today. I was shocked.

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My Story of Surviving Psychiatry

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It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient. Even fewer spot the role assays play.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

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In 2009-2010, I had a very tough time. Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? It was also then that I started taking quetiapine (Seroquel) in addition to citalopram for a better night’s sleep. But afterwards, I picked up my life.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

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639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. When I checked the Danish prices in 2009, the rejuvenated drug cost 19 times as much for a daily dose as the original drug. 7,642 This is likely an underestimate, as the survey was not anonymous. It is the other way around.

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Remembrances of Linda Andre, Leader in the Fight Against ECT

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She was prescribed what she assumed were sleeping pills and had taken some to sleep. When the NYS Office of Mental Health held a conference on research in 1988, Linda and I both attended. We didn’t stop anyone from entering the Center; we were just trying to educate people. But the pills were neuroleptics.

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Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Reduce Harms and Empower Patients: Interview with Psychiatrist Swapnil Gupta

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She is also a part of the editorial board of the Community Mental Health Journal. Currently, she is working on creating educational resources to help people discontinue psychiatric medications and gathering information on the knowledge and opinions of psychiatrists regarding the discontinuation of such drugs.