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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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Whether drugs are legal or illegal, it is unhealthy to perturb brain functions with them. In evidence-based healthcare, we do not use interventions that do more harm than good, which psychiatry does. Avoid financial conflicts of interest with manufacturers of psychoactive drugs or other treatments, e.g. equipment for electroshock.

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RADAR and the Dignity of Risk-Taking

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Here, we would like to extend the responsibility of healthcare professionals to include the risk of staying on medication. In our response to the RADAR study, we argued that the dignity of risk associated with dose reduction must be preserved. The process of deinstitutionalization has been seen as one of the revolutions in mental health care.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

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Much as the court-watching movement shines a light on the unjust workings of the criminal-legal system , Shield activists show up to virtual hearings like Russell’s as witnesses to the injustices of the civil commitment system. Why does a religious organization have legal rights over a man’s life and body in a supposedly secular state?”

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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Bristol Myers, along with the many other manufacturing plants located in the surrounding area, helped to grow and strengthen our local economy. By the mid-2000s, because of cheaper costs to manufacture penicillin in foreign countries, the plant downsized considerably.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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Gina Teixeira, the male patients attorney with the Connecticut Legal Rights Project , commented that a female clients health had improved after involuntary ECT was halted because of a stay of the court order, contradicting how the hospital said that without shock she deteriorates. 10) May have psychological trauma of living through all that.