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

Mad in America

T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. Even fewer spot the role assays play. This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. Before Thalidomide By 1950, we were starting to get the first new drugs that worked well.

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Mental health resources for global concerns

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Mental health resources for global concerns MHA Admin Tue, 01/09/2024 - 11:59 Background Color blue Find resources for global conflict

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Why We Need More Soteria Houses

Mad in America

From Compassionate Mental Health : “What are the features of a Soteria House? They are simple, safe, warm, homelike environments. Joseph Berke, who worked with Laing, Mosher and others at Kingsley Hall – and went on to co-found the Arbours Association called these places ‘Safe spaces for suffering & for joy.’ Joe Berke wrote in his book ‘I didn’t have to go Mad here’: ‘It has been my repeated observation that this journey and these experiences are not inhe