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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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However, rather than people becoming enraged and politically engaged to change carcinogenic environments, an extremely powerful medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex has controlled the societal narrative to focus—not on eliminating environmental-societal causes of cancer—but on expensive cancer treatments. between 1990 and 2019.”

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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

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Establishment psychiatry has shown this same unscientific thinking in its manufacturing of other biological theories of mental illness. The APA publishes the DSM diagnostic manual, and PLOS Medicine reported in 2012, 69% of the DSM- 5 task force members report having ties to the pharmaceutical industry.