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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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While the researcher had just completed his academic training to become a psychiatrist, he received no education at all on the withdrawal issues facing him, as well as more than 1 in 6 patients prescribed antidepressants. As The New York Times reported in 2018, patients who “try to stop taking the drugs often say they cannot.”

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The Influence of Paid Opinion Leaders on Antidepressant Prescribing in the UK

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I worked as an NHS psychiatrist for over 25 years and as part of my continuing medical education regularly came across the work of a number of the respondents. From Hole Ousia : “I see that there have been a number of responses to this letter: Reversing the rate of antidepressant prescribing.

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

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The creation of the guidelines began in 2018, when the Dutch research collective ‘Druk & Dwars’ (Wild and Willful) initiated a taskforce for their development. The guidelines are meant to help explain what research on ADHD has actually found, its strengths and limitations, and more accurate ways to express what the classification means.

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When HVN Ireland Meets HVN Athens

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There is a group for collaborative practice and self-education for mental health professionals and trainees. Those groups are not in themselves a form of therapy; rather they offer therapeutic support and education. There are two self-help groups for family and friends in Athens with potentially a third one to come.

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Sherita, Mother of Tony

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This did not stop Sherita from believing that her son was intelligent, as he went on to complete school and higher education with a degree in botany. Tony, son of Sherita I watched my son, who was struggling from all of the previous medications he was given prior to May 2018, but he was still able to function.

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“War Cry For Change”: Veterans Launch Campaign for Informed Consent and Safe Deprescribing at the VA

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I n 2018, still in the throes of painful withdrawal from a psychiatric drug cocktail, U.S. The average person hearing them says, ‘Oh, more education for patients about the medications they’re prescribed and not just a six foot print off of information in small font. Air Force veteran Derek Blumke began connecting the dots.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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A 2018 paper examined FDA data on adverse drug events (ADEs) and found a rate of over 100,000 serious injuries per year. Foucault believed this concept is faulty because it ignores its cultural background—namely, the construction of an institutionalized education system. “If fold increase in the reports of serious ADEs and a 2.7-fold