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Public health
fromNature
5 days ago

Three mental-health claims from RFK's wellness movement: what scientists say

Unnecessary antidepressant use, overdiagnosis, and difficult withdrawal are presented as major problems in US mental-health care, with calls for alternatives and patient control.
fromPsychology Today
8 months ago

Why Lay Management of Medication Withdrawal Is Dangerous

Barry accurately underscores the harmful, widespread use of psychoactive drugs, where people may be taking as many as three or four medications. Indeed, she says that 25 percent of Americans took these medications during the coronavirus pandemic. Delano's experience is encouraging in that she felt better after stopping the medications she'd taken for many years-and she reports similar benefits for others in her lay business where she coaches them to taper and discontinue psychoactive agents.
Mental health
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