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

Mad in America

Its basically legal speed, and it can have some really bad effects. He started working with me at the shop, and I tried to put him on my insurance. Thats when my agent told me,We cant write your insurance because your son is on Vyvanse. I put a lot of blame on insurance companies, too. Siem: Around 2005 or 2006?

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Partner Perspectives: Beyond the Limits — The Hidden Costs of Additional Insured Endorsements

National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

Understanding the Costs and Pitfalls When it comes to insurance policies, fine print is critical especially when business agreements request additional insured endorsements. These provisions can carry hidden costs, leaving named insured parties to unfairly shoulder financial and legal burdens.

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The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz

Mad in America

Social prescriptions, like I said, also apply to food, money, housing support, legal support—because those things affect our health too, right? By the way, direct marketing of prescription drugs is only legal in the United States and New Zealand. Insurance companies are beginning to see the preventative health benefits.

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

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It’s a piecemeal, parcelized collection of public institutions, non-profits, and private agencies, funded by an equally complicated system of public and private money managed by insurance companies. To look at the records it produces, you would believe the result was comprehensive, thorough treatment.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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One advantage of BetterHelp is that because the service does not bill insurance, there is no need for clinicians to provide a diagnosis and target therapy to fit the “medical necessity” requirements imposed by third-party payers. Therapists are hired as independent contractors who are paid by the hour and are not technically employees.

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Leaving Biological Psychiatry Behind: An Interview With Rodrigo Nardi

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I said to myself, “If I can develop a way to work that brings me more satisfaction, if I can develop a paradigm that can survive considering the legalities, I think my life is going to be better.” And from a legal perspective, I’m just following the same rules in my textbooks. However, learn the legalities.

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Stealing My Mother From Me: The Horrors of Conservatorship

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Guardianship and the legal system stole her from me. But before long, her insurance announced they wouldn’t cover it (my mother “didn’t meet the criteria”), and so I went home and—following the hospital’s guidelines—secured the windows, the doors, the fridge. What a joke the legal system is. Consider my mother’s story.