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Monday, March 09, 2015

The Myth of the Chemical Cure: The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment

Video presentation by UNE Center for Global Humanities and its founding director, Anouar Majid, host Joanna Moncrieff on "The Myth of the Chemical Cure: The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment." Just under 1.5 hours

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There's a place in a large city with very bad drinking water, and kids are always getting sick with dysentery. So you keep treating the dysentery, but meanwhile it would be much better to clean up the drinking water... The drugs work on the dysentery for about 48 hours, but you're NOT treating the problem. And the problem is NOT genetic.

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In the 1999-2000 US election, the drug industry spent more money on political lobbying than any other industry.

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There are some very strange strong political links between the current President Bush, and psych drug maker Eli Lily

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In at least one state, psychiatrists are more than 7 times more likely to be a sex abuser compared to other physicians

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The World Health Organization concludes that living in a developed country is a ''strong predictor'' that a patient never will fully recover from Schizophrenia.

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Study reveals that sudden deaths are 5 times more common in people with a history of psychiatric contact

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74% of children and adolescents have suffered a bad sideffect during their treatment with SSRI Psych Drugs

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At least 21 thousand avoidable suicides may have been induced by Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft side effects, without any warnings to the victims or their families.

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What are the odds that male psychiatrists will be disciplined for sexual misconduct sometime in their careers?

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A Critical Investigation of the History of Psychiatry reveals that Psychiatry is not everything that it is cracked up to be.

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Monday, March 09, 2015

The Myth of the Chemical Cure: The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment

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