Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Whether drugs are legal or illegal, it is unhealthy to perturb brain functions with them. In 1990-92, 12% of the US population aged 18–54 years received treatment for emotional problems, which went up to 20% in 2001–2003. In 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that 25% of Americans have a mental illness.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. ECT is a psychiatric treatment for clinical depression and other mental health conditions in which electrical impulses are passed through a persons brain to cause brief seizures (Egan, 2018).

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