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

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Its basically legal speed, and it can have some really bad effects. He died in November 2011. We didnt pursue legal action against any of the doctorswe just didnt have the fight left in us. Siem: Around 2005 or 2006? He started college in 2004, so this would have been 2005 or 2006. Its an amphetamine. So, two years.

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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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In 2011, McHenry and Jureidini informed all the 22 authors of study 329 of the fraud and asked them to write to JAACAP to have the paper withdrawn, or at least to withdraw their own names as authors. The authors of the article were contacted and asked to respond to the questions and concerns raised by the settlement.

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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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In 2011, Pigott published a paper titled STAR*D: A Tale and Trail of Bias, which laid out the protocol violations in detail, and Mad in America posted the documents that he had obtained through his FOI requests. Mad in Americas review of Pigotts 2010 paper was titled: “The STAR*D Scandal: A New Paper Sums It All Up.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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Perhaps another model could fit the data better; however, unlike psychiatry’s chemical-neurobiological medical model, at least this model has some empirical evidence and rationality.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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The number of pharmaceutical products in the home today is unprecedented—and drugs, both legal and illegal, continue to be the leading cause of child poisoning. The civil case was settled in January of 2011 for $2.5 After Tyra’s death, her parents sued Shire for $100,000 to recover medical, legal, and funeral expenses.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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Its mischaracterisations of the work of the UK critics were so pronounced, and the personal slurs so extreme, that some were forced to seek legal advice. Museums of Madness: The social organisation of insanity in 19th century England. London: Allen Lane. Shakespeare, T. The Social Model of Disability. Davis (Ed.), New York: Routledge.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. For societal and family authorities, psychiatry has another political role, an “extra-legal police function.”