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Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View

Mad in America

Reading these presentations, one can hear anger at the others’ ideas, and anger at not being heard. I’d like to present a sort of middle ground, where the views of both sides are respected, and understood to have origins in wanting to help people and reduce suffering. Overall, I hope to contribute something useful.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. So this question, I think, presents psychedelics as drugs that provide illumination and expand the mind. Whitaker: That’s why we need a grassroots rebellion.

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Support for Women at LightWork Therapy: Empowering Mental Health

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The Importance of Community in Women’s Wellness Women thrive in supportive communities where shared experiences create powerful bonds of understanding and healing. At LightWork, we’ve seen how community support can transform lives through our partnership with SHE RECOVERS Community.

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Beyond Paternalism or Abandonment in Mental Health Care: An Interview with Neil Gong

Mad in America

The idea was to release some prisoners who were incarcerated for drug offenses into the community and build up a community support system. Building a robust community system is expensive and logistically complicated. In California, we saw Proposition 47 turn meth and heroin possession into misdemeanors.

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Maryland Enacts a “Draconian” Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program

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Yet, in many of America’s underfunded and under-resourced community-based systems, it is often impossible for people to access care until and unless they are in a crisis. Proponents of court-ordered treatment also frequently argue that it is voluntary.