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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

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It was called chlorpromazine (Thorazine) and was made from an earlier pharmaceutical in 1951 used to relax naval hospital patients getting ready for surgery. At this time, across the US there was huge excitement about a drug for patients and it was being tested.

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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Harm Reduction, Not Judgment

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Together, we have created a movement that rejects coercion, force, and pharmaceutical propaganda and embraces informed consent, individual choice, and alternative ways to deal with distress. Even interpreted critically, studies (such as Lewis, et al, 2021; Kendrick, et al., We need to acknowledge that the results are unpredictable.

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

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The lawsuit, which was settled in 2021 with a $75m payout to the Cherokee Nation, alleged that in just one year, nearly 800kg of opioids – enough for almost 10m pills at oxycodone’s highest strength – were distributed within the reservation.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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A systematic review from 2021 in the psychiatrists’ flag-ship journal, American Journal of Psychiatry , entitled Improving suicide prevention through evidence-based strategies was shocking. [10] 18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” No surprise there. This is dishonest. 21] Smith R.

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Human

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I had been witch-hunted in 2021. Everything that I had been told was part of an elaborate, profiteering form of mass human control by psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies, and governments. At my local hospital, the nurses treated me like a criminal. They wanted to know why I was there, at their workplace, the audacity!

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report. Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer. In 2022 South Africa took the second-lowest position, with the UK ranking worst. In 2023 there was little change in most countries average scores, but 35.8%

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

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Schatzberg has served as a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corcept Therapeutics, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals, Organon, ParkeDavis, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst.