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Real World Evidence and Cannabis Psychosis

Real Psychiatry

I attended many seminars where there was a discussion of the endogenous cannabinoid system as a backdrop to talking about medical applications. All of this was an obvious prelude to legalization of cannabis and being able to market it as an intoxicant. The 20 th century medical rhetoric always ignored that history.

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Justice for the Mind: The Mental Health Crisis Among Indian Lawyers

Lawyers with Depression

This is a guest blog from attorney, Amarbir Singh Shergill , a Private Legal Practitioner in the Honble Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh, India since 2019. The Indian legal system, festered with rewards for the privileged and resourceful, amplifies this harsh reality. He earned his B.A.LLB (Hons.) Fame attracts fame.

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

Mad in America

Yes, I’m sure even Plato suffered such disinterest on the part of his students, which would most likely explain the antics of his pupil, Diogenes, who ran into Plato’s seminar with a plucked chicken crying: Behold! What is a teacher to make of such foolishness, or of such contempt for learning? Historically, the treatment would be discipline.

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You Have the Legal Right to Informed Consent

Mad in America

I didn’t know that I had the legal right to informed consent when I was first prescribed the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant Paxil two decades ago. Although this was a medical malpractice case, Andy Vickery is no stranger to setting legal precedents. I just “blindly trusted” my family doctor.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

Mad in America

The authors refused to withdraw the article, which resulted in a five-month battle where they needed legal assistance from their university and from Germany where the publisher is located. 11] A 2022 Lancet seminar was yet another proof that psychiatry has degenerated to a point of no return. Psychother Psychosom 2019;88:373-4. [12]

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

During 20172018, I participated in a number of meetings and seminars with senior personnel from the life insurance industry who were concerned about the cost that the prevailing mental illness ideology was having on their industry.