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Prescription Drugs: The Hidden Costs to Health and the Planet

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2024,” healthcare visits, procedures, tests, and vaccinations decreased but the number of new prescriptions saw a 3% increase. It has far-reaching effects—not just for individual health but for the environment. In certain cases, pharmaceuticals can harm public health. This is of concern to public health.

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

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I hope that by telling it, I can help others find a better way to manage their own healthcare, diagnoses, and whatever medications they may or may not choose to take. His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. No lettersbefore or after my name. Siem: Why dont you introduce us to your son?

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Is Public Psychiatry Responding to the Mental Health Crisis or Just “Treating the Chart?”

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The topic of mental health is on the public’s mind, whether it’s the popularizing of therapy speak, the increased attention paid to severe mental illness and homelessness, or pop psychology advice on TikTok. This scenario in public psychiatry settings is, unfortunately, a familiar one.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. I have seen this occur in all walks of life and the phenomena has no respect for intelligence, education or economic position in society. Psychiatry has been going down this mental disease road for 75 years or more, and I doubt, for psychiatry, that there is any turning back.

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.

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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

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The author, Erik Rudi, voluntarily relinquishes the authority of being a “psychologist” and “healthcare professional.” I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. The author, Erik Rudi. Psychologists cure nothing.

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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 article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient. It’s the hypnosis.