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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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The three trial reports seriously underreported suicide attempts, other suicidal events, and precursors to suicide and violence on active drug, and provided false claims that the drugs were effective. After 19 weeks, 42 children on fluoxetine versus 28 on placebo had experienced nervous system events (P = 0.01).

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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. We didnt pursue legal action against any of the doctorswe just didnt have the fight left in us. A big example of that was theMedicating Normal event in Virginia Beach, where you and I first met. Siem: Ive been lucky to participate in two events with you now.

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Elder Eyes Wide Shut

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A legal guardian and conservator have hijacked her father’s life and estate and she cannot get him out. My friend, who I will call Lilly to protect her and her family, is amidst a legal battle with her sibling and a cabal of lawyers over the legal guardianship and conservatorship of her 74-year-old father, though he can still make decisions.

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The Fallacy of Modern Psychiatry: Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes

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H uman behavior is shaped by a complex interplay of lifes events, conditions, and circumstances. The societal expectations and legal consequences tied to these judgments reflect a departure from humanitys evolutionary roots. To truly understand a persons actions and behaviors, one must ask: What was this person exposed to?

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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

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The agenda of the launch event is here , and the full video here ). Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.” This much: “Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.” ” Box 2, p. 15, sets out “The case against coercion.”

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My Impressions of Psychiatry

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People can’t legally be nasty to us because disability abuse is a hate crime too but that doesn’t appear to stop them; there doesn’t seem to be any legal precedents, cases or arrests when people who are exhibiting bizarre behaviour, are subjected to abuse and called names. He scrawled something down on a notepad, something.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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When mundane events increasingly take on the character of the surreal or the apocalyptic, what does it mean to be normal or sane? Psychedelics: While still controversial due to a welter of legal, cultural, and safety concerns, it now seems unavoidable that psychedelics will be part of the mental health care of the future.