Mad in America
MARCH 8, 2025
T he Vermont Longitudinal Study, which was led by Courtenay Harding, reported on the long-term outcomes of patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital in the late 1950s and early 1960. Robert Whitaker: Your longitudinal study of outcomes for chronic patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital wasand isof landmark importance.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 20, 2023
From the Los Angeles Times : “When he came home from the hospital, Marcelus Laidler began to wet the bed. ‘That hospital is like one bad dream after another.’ ’ Hospitals are forbidden under federal law from restraining psychiatric patients except to prevent them from harming themselves or others. .
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Mad in America
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In 2021, he had published a poem called “ Bedridden ” on Mad in America, and a video of him was included in Peter Gotzsche’s blog “ Psychiatry’s Denial of the Horrors of Tardive Dyskinesia.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
’ In October 2021 Horowitz set up England’s first deprescribing clinic in north London with Joanna Moncrieff, a consultant psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at UCL, which has so far treated 40 patients but fields referrals for hundreds more a month. ‘The story is the same,’ Horowitz says.
Mad in America
AUGUST 17, 2024
T his is the story of Will, a young man who plunged into an extreme state following exposure to a synthetic street drug, which led to repeat psychiatric hospitalizations—and the effect on family members who supported him along the way. So his hospitalization nearly doubled his separation from his family. We were kept in the dark.
Mad in America
APRIL 26, 2024
Joey developed akathisia, tardive dyskinesia and dystonia around 2021. 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. No one could tell him what it was.
Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.
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