Mon.Dec 11, 2023

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Stop Using Antidepressants Except for “the Most Severe Depression,” Experts Say

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In a new article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), 30+ prominent figures in critical psychiatry call on the UK government to acknowledge the evidence that antidepressants are no better than placebos for most patients and to increase funding of social and psychological interventions while decreasing drug prescriptions. “Multiple meta-analyses have shown antidepressants to have no clinically meaningful benefit beyond placebo for all patients but those with the most severe depression,” they wri

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From Gang Member to Mental Health Advocate

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I grew up in an inner-city community in San Diego, California, called Southeast. This area has always been known for crime, drugs and most notably gangs. Despite my familys well-intentioned efforts to keep me away from gangs, the gang culture still pulled me in. In 7 th grade, I was caught in the perfect storm. My mother and stepfather divorced; my 18-year-old cousin, who I looked up to, was being sent to prison for a life sentence due to a gang-related incident; and I was failing significantl

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A School Promised Not to Send Kids to the ER for Misbehavior – But Hospital Trips Only Increased

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From AP News : “Three times a week, on average, a police car pulls up to a school in Wicomico County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. A student is brought out, handcuffed and placed inside for transport to a hospital emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation. Over the past eight years, the process has been used at least 750 times on students. Some are as young as 5 years old.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 2)

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Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses off-label prescribing as well as physicians’ anti-science pushback against the use of well-conducted clinical trials. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here.