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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 a 2010 paper , Pigott and colleagues also made sense of the graphic representing the one-year results.

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

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I n a previous chapter I reported data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11c that suicides for the years 2007 to 2017 increased by 30% while the teen rate (ages 10 to 24) increased by 56%! This is the first step in evaluating any new drug, trying out the drug on normal people without the health problem under consideration.

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Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

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But back in 2009-2010, the years of the first of three “suicide clusters” in Palo Alto, teen suicides across America were rarer. And as we later found out, only 46% of the kids who died by suicide even had a known mental health problem. The numbers today truly are staggering. Pornography. at all, ever (“as if!”).

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. I am a 41-year-old resident of Newington since 2010, though I grew up in Middletown. An abridged account of my experience is on Mental Health Today (C. Anwar , Rep. Dubey, 2023).

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Arrested Development: Britney Spears’ Memoir Is a Survivor’s Tale of Generational Trauma, Psychiatric Abuse, and Resilience

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S emi-retired pop star Britney Spears is almost as famous for her 13+-year conservatorship —during which all personal, professional, and medical decisions were under legal control of her father—as for her music. He and Lynne divorced in 2002 but reunited in 2010 and recently called it quits for good.) Spoilers ahead.)