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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. It really hit me when he came home in 2009. Fee: He started working with me at the store in the fall of 2009. No lettersbefore or after my name. So, two years.

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

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. Furberg 12 studied under the Freedom of Information Act the question of prescription drugs and violent behavior by reviewing the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) from the years 2004 to 2009. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6) appeared first on Mad In America.

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

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This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. Those who see healthcare going down the tubes get indignant about these adverts, saying all would be fine if there were no free lunches and doctors were guided by the evidence.

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

Mad in America

An analysis of adverse drug events submitted to the FDA between 2004 and 2009 identified 1,937 cases of violence, 387 of which were homicide. In evidence-based healthcare, we do not use interventions that do more harm than good, which psychiatry does. Brain-active substances can lead to violence, including murder.

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Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient

Mad in America

We were not given any advice or support from healthcare services to help our family adjust to this enormous change in our circumstances. I was a nobody, and it took a move away from Scotland in 2009 to pull myself out of the quagmire. How could I complain about that?

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Veteran Homelessness

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According to the VA, in January of 2020, there were 37,252 homeless veterans, and this number represents a 50 percent decrease in homeless veterans since 2009. As part of the homeless population, veterans find it difficult to get the healthcare and services needed to recover and return to a normal life.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

Mad in America

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. is the only developed nation with for-profit healthcare. Suffering is the main reason people seek healthcare. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.