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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. He died in November 2011. 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.

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

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3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.

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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

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For Watson, the focus on schizophrenia came when his son experienced a crisis at age 15, including a suicide attempt and a runaway scare, along with being diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized for six months.

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The Troubled-Teen Industry Offers Trauma, Not Therapy

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These children’s programs act similarly to psychiatric hospitals in that they control residents’ custody and communication with the outside world, but they are typically not strictly regulated. But until Ms. Hilton took up the cause, efforts to protect youth on the federal level had stalled.”

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt

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The last visit to the ER jolted us to next-level intensity beginning with the ER doctor who traded the Xanax for Klonopin, another benzo, and prescribed Remeron, saying Matt needed to spend the night at the hospital so that they could “make sure he could sleep.” They assured him they would admit him, and I left the hospital.

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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.

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

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I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.”