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NY Times Finally Figures out ADHD Critics May be Onto Something

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From The New York Times : “From 2012 to 2022, the total number of prescriptions for stimulants to treat A.D.H.D. In 2012, Americans in their 30s were issued five million prescriptions for stimulants to treat A.D.H.D.; increased in the United States by 58 percent.

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Study Finds Over 25% of Antidepressant Prescriptions Given to High-Risk, Long-Term Users

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A new article published in BMC Medicine finds that antidepressant use in two Scottish regions increased 27% between 2012 and 2019. While the occurrence of potential high-risk use decreased slightly between 2012 and 2019 (from 37.9% among adult residents between 2012 and 2019.

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A Reflection on “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance”

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L aura Delano and I met sometime around 2012 at a Mad in America film festival. I was immediately drawn to her fierce intelligence and, as I got to learn more about her, was struck by some of the interesting similarities and contrasts between our lives.

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Hormonal Changes in Women with ADHD: 4 Gaping Holes in Research

ADDitude

Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones across the Menstrual Cycle (DASH-MC): A transdiagnostic framework for ovarian steroid influences on psychopathology. Molecular psychiatry, 30(1), 251262. link] 2 Hinshaw, S. Zalecki, C., Huggins, S. Montenegro-Nevado, A. Schrodek, E., & Swanson, E.

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On the Brink of Murder Because of an Antidepressant

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W hile going through a divorce in 2012, award-winning documentary filmmaker Katinka Blackford Newman from London was prescribed escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro, from Lundbeck). This is a depression pill, but Katinka was not depressed, only distressed, with sleepless nights, when she needed to leave the family home after a 12-year marriage.

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Phenotypic diversity from dogs to diseases

Real Psychiatry

2012 Feb;23(1-2):19-27. Epub 2012 Jan 10. 2012 Aug 10;91(2):275-92. Canine behavioral genetics: pointing out the phenotypes and herding up the genes. Am J Hum Genet. 2008 Jan;82(1):10-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2007.12.001. 2007.12.001. 4: Parker HG. Genomic analyses of modern dog breeds. Mamm Genome. doi: 10.1007/s00335-011-9387-6.

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Beyond Police and Psychiatrists: Chicago’s Plan to Transform Community Mental Health

Mad in America

Born out of the occupation of the Woodlawn Mental Health Center by community organizers after Emmanuel announced its closure in 2012, the movement has coalesced around a policy demand called Treatment Not Trauma (TNT).