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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. His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. 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? Its an amphetamine.

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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). This would seem to meet the legal criteria for libel, given that both the STAR*D authors and the AJP knew that Pigott and colleagues had done no such thing.

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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. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics.