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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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Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides

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One would have thought that suicide is a hard endpoint and that we can believe analyses carried out by drug regulators based on the clinical study reports the manufacturers have submitted to them, but this is not so. The most reliable meta-analysis I have seen is from 2021 and its methods are exemplary. Barbui et al. to 2.44).

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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The many erroneous and misleading statements I found cannot be explained by the advent of new, important knowledge, as the publication dates for the textbooks were recent, from 2016 to 2021. Avoid financial conflicts of interest with manufacturers of psychoactive drugs or other treatments, e.g. equipment for electroshock.

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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. In a 2021 article, “ The Magnificent Bribe ,” social critic Zachary Loeb explained: “In denouncing the bribe, Mumford was not simply blasting this or that particular machine.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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Bristol Myers, along with the many other manufacturing plants located in the surrounding area, helped to grow and strengthen our local economy. By the mid-2000s, because of cheaper costs to manufacture penicillin in foreign countries, the plant downsized considerably. million prescriptions dispensed in the US during 2021.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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2025; Murphy, 2021; Neugebauer, 2024; Oppenheim, 2022; Oprison, 2021; Roche, 2016; Rogers, 2021; Simonson, 2020; Singh, 2016; Smith, 2008; Stence & Stence, 2022; Tenney, 2016). 2025; MindFreedom International, 2016; Murphy, 2021; Ogles, 2023; Oppenheim, 2022; Oprison, 2021; Read, 2022; Read et al.,