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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. His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. 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?

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

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Such patients have enough social and mental quirks to merit permanent custodial care.” Given that the patient is in severe distress, he is unlikely able to satisfy all of the institutional requirements (waking/sleeping on time, attending groups, engaging politely with staff etc). As such, we see Derrida’s strange paradox.

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

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T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays.

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Treating Lawyers with Depression: One Psychologist’s Top 10 Tips

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Depression is a mental health disorder that affects roughly 10 to 15 percent of the general population. This is the medical definition of depression. However, this definition fails to capture the experience of what its like to be depressed. Take your mental health seriously. and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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

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As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This would seem to meet the legal criteria for libel, given that both the STAR*D authors and the AJP knew that Pigott and colleagues had done no such thing.