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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

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In 2013, I estimated that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, 1 and in 2015, that psychiatric drugs alone are also the third leading cause of death. 6 In hospital records and coroners’ reports, deaths linked to prescription drugs are often considered to be from natural or unknown causes.

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The Death of Joey Marino

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In 2015 was when Joey started taking medication. In 2022 he put himself in the hospital to try to get help. From January 2022 to the end of February he was in the hospital in Mississippi until a friend picked him up and brought him back to Los Angeles to get treatment. Joey never felt comfortable there.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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2] A 2015 “State of the Art review” in the BMJ claimed that “Evidence supports specific psychotropic drugs to reduce the risk of suicide.” [3] The comment I made in 2015 on the Board of Health’s website. [40] Katinka ended up in the private Florence Nightingale psychiatric hospital in London. 4] There is no such drug.

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Stealing My Mother From Me: The Horrors of Conservatorship

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A long saga begins It all started the first week in April of 2015, the day after my mother and I took a trip to Salinas, KS, to pick up a grandfather clock. At one point, the counselor called back and indicated a hospital would take her. I was told she would be taken directly to the hospital. She called again. No return calls.

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The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care

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I think we can gain some insight from Jacques Derrida’s work on hospitality. Derrida begins his study with an etymological analysis of the word “hospitality.” To what extent is psychiatric hospitalization a legitimate hospitality for a sick person? ” There are many interesting implications of this paper.

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Letting Go of Lithium

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I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital. None of this sat well with me, but coming home from the hospital completely overly medicated and numb, I was in shock, disassociated, and unable to question the doctor’s theory.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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Carly tells that Joey was on almost thirty different medications between 2015 and 2024. Joey experienced akathisia from drugs prescribed for anxiety and he sadly died on January 14th 2024. Joey developed akathisia, tardive dyskinesia and dystonia around 2021. No one could tell him what it was.