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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

In this way, we put everyone else who is injured by the drug in a state of legal jeopardy because companies can claim nothing like happened in our studies – it’s your anecdote against our evidence. According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

Mad in America

Dr. Healey was an expert witness on several legal actions against drug companies in which people had committed homicide or suicide while taking SSRI ADMs. Healy found that the SSRI seemed to make some of these emotionally normal employees “better than ever” but, as mentioned above, two volunteers became acutely suicidal. meprobamate) as well.

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Day # 162: Sedative-Hypnotic Use Disorder

Bullet Psych

CBT for insomnia and anxiety disorders can help reduce reliance on sedative-hypnotics. Screen for polysubstance use , especially alcohol, opioids, or stimulants. Screening questionnaires : DAST (Drug Abuse Screening Test). Medications : Gradual tapering of benzodiazepines is the gold standard to prevent withdrawal complications.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 1)

Mad in America

These drugs have often become the sole treatment for a variety of behavioral health disorders including clinical depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other approved and off-label uses of these drugs.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. This process of medicalisation is now all too often a default response to distress and happens on a large scale.