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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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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 even their self-judgment is not proof of the merits of the drugs, even for themselves, because they lack knowing what would have been possible for them.

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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. While the bill did not move this year, Bergan said advocates hope to raise awareness among stakeholders and policymakers this year to galvanize support in 2025.