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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

First, I found a supervising psychiatrist with tapering experience, which is vanishingly rare in Australia. Jon Jureidini was doing research into patient experiences of antidepressant withdrawal with a view to making submissions to government. There are no studies, not yet. I have no illusions about the road ahead.

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

Mad in America

With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.