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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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Its basically legal speed, and it can have some really bad effects. Fee: There were definitely multiple. We didnt pursue legal action against any of the doctorswe just didnt have the fight left in us. Siem: Around 2005 or 2006? He started college in 2004, so this would have been 2005 or 2006. Its an amphetamine.

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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

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In practice, however, this broad definition attracts little more than lip service. Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.” This much: “Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.” Around the world, mental health gets about 2.1%

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The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care

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His next move is to expand upon the paradox of the foreigner by adding the concept of language: “He must ask for hospitality in a language that, by definition, is not his and is imposed upon him by the master of the house… The latter imposes translation into his own language upon the former, and that is the first violence.

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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

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That is, the legal framework and policies and practices for services and support still need to be created, because it is still very institutional, is what activists there have told me, but there are all these reforms underway. I started the book project for two reasons.

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From Auctions to Moral Treatment

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This laid some of the legal ground work for the use of seclusion and restraint we have now. Troubled Oregonians also contended with the absence of a specific definition of madness. The definitions were unclear enough that in a largely misogynistic culture, the standard was applied to women who were traumatized by domestic violence.

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

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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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The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz

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The book definitely prompted me to think about how I can bring more meaningful connections into my own world. Social prescriptions, like I said, also apply to food, money, housing support, legal support—because those things affect our health too, right? I’ve felt a lot of loneliness and disconnection.

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