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Elder Eyes Wide Shut

Mad in America

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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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. Dr. Healey was an expert witness on several legal actions against drug companies in which people had committed homicide or suicide while taking SSRI ADMs. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6) appeared first on Mad In America. The post Much of U.S.

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

Mad in America

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. 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.

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Reframing Antipsychotic Discontinuation: A Psychiatrist’s Personal and Professional Call for Epistemic Justice

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There are ongoing ethical, moral, and legal challenges surrounding the prescription and discontinuation of antipsychotic medicationschallenges that a new article suggests can be addressed through the lens of epistemic injustice.

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The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz

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As a journalist—much like how Robert Whitaker’s journalism led to Mad in America—I was curious about why, in a healthcare system that’s continually expanding with more medications, people are still feeling so sick. But we haven’t really heard about what healthcare is going to do to make those benefits more accessible to patients.

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

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. The marketing of these drugs to general physicians and the public at large has been so successful that physicians are convinced that the failure to prescribe these drugs would be considered negligent, even legally indefensible! Are they as effective and safe as psychiatry claims?

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

Mad in America

And yet it’s required to document itself as if it weren’t any different, and this language, as with all of health care, become the basis for billing, proving policy compliance, and legal protection. The presence of this screening in healthcare settings is relatively new, and an example of an initiative aimed at improving services.

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