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

Mad in America

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

Mad in America

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.”