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Elder Eyes Wide Shut

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A legal guardian and conservator have hijacked her father’s life and estate and she cannot get him out. My friend, who I will call Lilly to protect her and her family, is amidst a legal battle with her sibling and a cabal of lawyers over the legal guardianship and conservatorship of her 74-year-old father, though he can still make decisions.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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The authors refused to withdraw the article, which resulted in a five-month battle where they needed legal assistance from their university and from Germany where the publisher is located. 28] They referred to a meta-analysis by Gibbons from 2012. 51] Can anything be worse than this in healthcare? This taboo kills people.

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

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Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, her research addresses the ethical and medical-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of academic-industry relationships. One is on conflicts of interest in medicine broadly, looking at influential information sources that are used by physicians and other healthcare providers.

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

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Whether drugs are legal or illegal, it is unhealthy to perturb brain functions with them. In 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that 25% of Americans have a mental illness. In evidence-based healthcare, we do not use interventions that do more harm than good, which psychiatry does. They are not medical diseases.