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Beyond Pharmacare

Mad in America

From Briarpatch Magazine : “My neighbour’s fire alarm went off before mine. I slept like a corpse as the alarms blared and flames roared through the windows of my apartment. I think I woke up briefly to firefighters trying to get into my apartment, but the memory is hazy.

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I Am Looking for People I Miss

Mad in America

I felt stupid with my women magazines, books and chocolate I had brought to her, with my pink Peugeot. No one has the same bipolar disorder. But a couple of years later, Sam messaged me again, saying that she was living in a supported house, in the north of Sheffield. I got into my pink Peugeot convertible and drove to see her.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

Mad in America

As our society embraced the use of SSRI antidepressants, disability due to affective disorders dramatically increased. One reason for this was that SSRIs were found to increase the risk that a person with unipolar depression would suffer a manic episode and be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a diagnosis with a much less favorable prognosis.

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

Mad in America

Joseph Aspirin for Children was aggressively marketed to parents, relying heavily on newspaper and magazine ads. Rebecca started seeing a psychiatrist at the age of two and was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and pediatric bipolar disorder. After its release in 1947, St.

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The Long-Disputed Science of Twin Studies

Mad in America

Segal in the July 26 th , 2024 edition of CounterPunch , a politically progressive/left online magazine. I was surprised to see an article on twin studies by Nancy L. Bouchard, Jr., once concluded , “The similarity we see in personality between biological relatives is almost entirely genetic in origin.”