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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not require warnings for persistent sexual dysfunction, for example, and today the agency is attempting to defend itself from a lawsuit by the consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Citizen, which claims that it failed to respond to a 2018 petition to do so. Millions of others share this experience.

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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

Mad in America

Even at 17, I had enough awareness to recognize that something was seriously wrong with that experience, that there was something fundamentally flawed in the way we treat people. Russell: At this point, many people are aware that trauma is a major factor that can lead to psychosis. Russell: Sure.

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Grant, Interrupted: An Introduction and Report Back from Oregon

Mad in America

We believe in the power of community, and so much of community occurs at the grassroots outside of nonprofits or even state funded services. The police cannot and will not be a part of how people will come to stay at the respite—guests will need to call us themselves and make a decision based in self-determination to stay.