Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

A s we look back on the year and the decade, lets celebrate millions of people advocating for better outcomes in mental health care. Together, we have created a movement that rejects coercion, force, and pharmaceutical propaganda and embraces informed consent, individual choice, and alternative ways to deal with distress. Through mutual aid, weve challenged medical misinformation, built peer support forums and groups, and shared learning and experience from a harm reduction perspective.

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Critical Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Doctors have always exaggerated the advantages of medication. But medication, including recreational drugs, cant just be eliminated. There are plenty of people that say that psychiatric medication has helped, despite its disadvantages (see eg. previous post ). This experience cannot be denied, even if it is due to the placebo effect. Mainstream psychiatry will never accept that psychiatric medication is not effective.

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Clear Behavioral Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

If you have ever considered an alcohol detox but didnt know where to turn to start your sobriety journey, you arent alone. The idea of detoxing from alcohol can be extremely scary and it’s normal to be weary of the unknown territory that you are entering. What is Detox? Our minds and bodies get used to patterns, and when a substance is no longer being used, the pattern has been broken.

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Bullet Psych

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Today we will continue our current theme of substance use disorders as we discuss alcohol use disorder (AUD). Today's post includes an introduction, diagnostic criteria of AUD, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical pearls, management of intoxication and withdrawal, and treatment of AUD. Today's Content Level: Intermediate Introduction 1 , 2 Alcohol primarily acts as a central nervous system (CNS) depressant.

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Real Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

For starters GLP-1 agonists are drugs like Ozempic and Weygovy. See this post for a current list. It is hard not to hear about them since they are heavily hyped in just about every form of media. They are being touted as a cure for just about everything. Various celebrities are either promoting them or denying that a dramatic weight loss was associated with their use.

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