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

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Somatics LLC marked a watershed moment for advocates who have fought for decades for ECT device manufacturer accountability. Every time I was in the hospital, they always had a little flier that said, ‘Know your Rights.’ But that number is so swamped. In June, the California Supreme Court’s decision in Himes v.

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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. This was a sight that as kids, we never could have imagined.