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‘We Hold You Sacred’: Fighting the Opioid Crisis in the Cherokee Nation

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From The Guardian : “In 2017, the Cherokee Nation became the first tribe to file a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors for promoting the flow of prescription opioids into its community.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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The DSM manufactures illness from normal human reactions by some individuals in response to some environments. had no clinically significant benefit over a placebo.” While modern medicine has become increasingly impersonal, bureaucratized, and socially iatrogenic, the essence of psychiatry has long been one of social iatrogenesis.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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2017; Armstrong, 2016; BBC, 2021a, 2021b; Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, 2017; Comiskey, 2018; Dobuzinskis, 2023; Dow, 2018; Doyle, 2022; Easton, 2020; Egan, 2018; Farnsworth, 2016; Gonzlez-Pando et al., Dubey, 2017). Electroconvulsive Therapy, Manufacturers Liability, and Learned Intermediaries.