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Prescription Drugs: The Hidden Costs to Health and the Planet

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Pharmaceutical spending in the U.S. The Downsides of Pharmaceuticals for Health Management While prescription drugs can be lifesaving or increase your quality of life, it can be damaging to rely solely on pharmaceuticals for your well-being. This can make you feel like you aren’t in control of your recovery.

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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

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This isn’t an anxiety to pathologize or suppress, nor is it something we can avoid by just eating gluten-free food or avoiding caffeine. Once those are under control, they can get still, slow down, and have an inner conversation to uncover the true anxiety at the heart of it all.

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

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He maintains an active program of research in the pharmacoepidemiology of controlled substances including opioids, cannabinoids, and other controlled substances, behavioral neurology methods development and quantitative medical ethics. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. Cosgrove: Yes.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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So well that no Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) were needed to show they worked. They might be randomizing, and controlling with a placebo, but they were doing Assays—Randomized Controlled Assays (RCAs). FDA approves Food and Drugs—on the basis of assays. Randomized Controlled Assays and Randomized Controlled Trials.

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Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness

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In another faith healing site in India, Rajasthan’s Balaji Temple, visitors deprive themselves of sleep, eat tasteless or bitter food, restrain themselves in chains, hit their bodies against the walls or move their head in repeated, circular motion for long periods of time to heal. It urged her to end her life and forced her to harm herself.

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

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However, Miss Brown will discover that John boy buys his lunch from the cafeteria, and since she’s not allowed to withhold food from him, he goes to the cafeteria to buy his lunch. He returns “promptly” thirty-five minutes later and explains that “the line was long” or that “they ran out of food and had to make more.”

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

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You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. I think the question is, will we ever have that?