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News Items / This song goes out to all survivors against the programs!
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News Items / Check this out
« on: July 25, 2008, 10:58:47 PM »
http://addiction-dirkh.blogspot.com/2008/07/ten-drug-myths-exposed.html
Friday, July 25, 2008
Ten Drug Myths Exposed
Drug abuse vs. drug dependence
As the neurobiology of addiction has come into clearer focus over time, our ability to separate fact from fiction in the field of drug dependence has grown rapidly. Beliefs that have been common wisdom for years--that anyone who uses cocaine or heroin inevitably becomes addicted to it, for example--can now be confidently replaced with insights gained from a decade or more of intense research on the biological causes and treatment of addiction.
Dr. Carlton Erickson, professor of Pharmacology/Toxicology and director of the Addiction Science Research and Education Center at the University of Texas, has assembled an intriguing list of such changes in thinking, based on his book, "The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment." The complete list can be found on his "Exploding Drug Myths" page at the University of Texas site.
With his kind permission, I offer a few of these emerging insights. Many of them, Dr. Erickson told me, are understandable only in the context of DSM-IV criteria for drug abuse and drug dependence as listed in "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders."
The DSM table for drug abuse defines it as "A maladaptive pattern of drug use leading to impairment or distress" including one or more of the following symptoms: recurrent use leading to failure to fulfill major obligations; recurrent use which is physically dangerous; drug-related legal problems; continued use despite social or interpersonal problems.
In contrast, the DSM manual defines drug dependence as three or more of the following symptoms: drug tolerance; withdrawal; drug used more often than planned; inability to control drug use; effort expended to obtain the drug; drug use replaces other activities; drug use continues despite knowledge of a persistent problem.
With these definitions in mind--which correspond roughly to "problem drinker/user" in the former case, and "addict" in the latter--here are some of the myths:
MYTH: Therapeutic pain-killers (such as morphine) produce a high rate of addiction. "Since "addiction" means "dependence," writes Erickson, "the likelihood of becoming dependent on opioid pain-killers is actually quite low.... Most people given these pain-killers will go through withdrawal but will never want or need the drug again."
MYTH: Crack is more addicting than cocaine powder. "There is no pharmacological reason why the form of a drug or the route of administration should change the 'addiction' liability of a drug. In fact, science is beginning to realize that the drug is not the cause of 'addiction' rather, the susceptibility of the person to the drug determines how much 'addiction' (dependence) develops."
MYTH: "Substance abuse" is a scientifically valid term. "The word is a weak, wimpy, confusing, inaccurate, and misleading term when applied to drug problems."
MYTH: Alcoholics can drink socially. "There are a few scientific studies that suggest this. But most of these studies look at 'problem drinkers'....'Abusers' can drink socially (that is, under control), whereas truly dependent individuals cannot."
MYTH: All drugs damage brain cells. "Actually, relatively few have been shown to damage brain cells through a toxic effect. These include alcohol (high doses over a long time), 'inhalants'... methamphetamine and MDMA (shown in animal studies with high doses, but not yet in humans)."
MYTH: Drugs cause "addiction." "An interesting scientific question is: If drugs cause 'addiction,' then why doesn't everyone who uses drugs too much, too often, become dependent (addicted)? Scientists are looking into genetic and other unknown factors that cause some people to become dependent while sparing others of this brain pathology."
MYTH: It is possible to overdose on LSD. "LSD is a major hallucinogen and can cause people to jump from tall buildings (for example) in their hallucinogenic state. However, there is no known lethal dose in humans."
MYTH: The more a person is educated about drugs, the less likely they are to become "addicted". "This idea that chemical dependence is preventable is an old one. Strong indirect evident concerning the brain mechanisms involved in dependence tells us that 'addiction' cannot be prevented. If the above statement were true, physicians, nurses, and pharmacists would have a low rate of chemical dependence. Sadly, these health professionals have an incidence of dependence that is at least as high as the general population."
MYTH: Anyone who drinks too much, too often, is an alcoholic. "If the 'too much, too often' myth were true, then most college students would be alcoholics. In fact, most college students ABUSE alcohol, while only 10-15% show dependence on alcohol at some point in their drinking careers."
MYTH: Everyone "has what it takes" to become "addicted" to drugs. "If 'addiction' (dependence) is a chronic medical disease, then why should it be different from other medical diseases? Everyone doesn't 'have what it takes' to get sickle cell anemia, insulin-dependent diabetes, or AIDS."
Posted by Dirk Hanson at 3:15 PM
Friday, July 25, 2008
Ten Drug Myths Exposed
Drug abuse vs. drug dependence
As the neurobiology of addiction has come into clearer focus over time, our ability to separate fact from fiction in the field of drug dependence has grown rapidly. Beliefs that have been common wisdom for years--that anyone who uses cocaine or heroin inevitably becomes addicted to it, for example--can now be confidently replaced with insights gained from a decade or more of intense research on the biological causes and treatment of addiction.
Dr. Carlton Erickson, professor of Pharmacology/Toxicology and director of the Addiction Science Research and Education Center at the University of Texas, has assembled an intriguing list of such changes in thinking, based on his book, "The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment." The complete list can be found on his "Exploding Drug Myths" page at the University of Texas site.
With his kind permission, I offer a few of these emerging insights. Many of them, Dr. Erickson told me, are understandable only in the context of DSM-IV criteria for drug abuse and drug dependence as listed in "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders."
The DSM table for drug abuse defines it as "A maladaptive pattern of drug use leading to impairment or distress" including one or more of the following symptoms: recurrent use leading to failure to fulfill major obligations; recurrent use which is physically dangerous; drug-related legal problems; continued use despite social or interpersonal problems.
In contrast, the DSM manual defines drug dependence as three or more of the following symptoms: drug tolerance; withdrawal; drug used more often than planned; inability to control drug use; effort expended to obtain the drug; drug use replaces other activities; drug use continues despite knowledge of a persistent problem.
With these definitions in mind--which correspond roughly to "problem drinker/user" in the former case, and "addict" in the latter--here are some of the myths:
MYTH: Therapeutic pain-killers (such as morphine) produce a high rate of addiction. "Since "addiction" means "dependence," writes Erickson, "the likelihood of becoming dependent on opioid pain-killers is actually quite low.... Most people given these pain-killers will go through withdrawal but will never want or need the drug again."
MYTH: Crack is more addicting than cocaine powder. "There is no pharmacological reason why the form of a drug or the route of administration should change the 'addiction' liability of a drug. In fact, science is beginning to realize that the drug is not the cause of 'addiction' rather, the susceptibility of the person to the drug determines how much 'addiction' (dependence) develops."
MYTH: "Substance abuse" is a scientifically valid term. "The word is a weak, wimpy, confusing, inaccurate, and misleading term when applied to drug problems."
MYTH: Alcoholics can drink socially. "There are a few scientific studies that suggest this. But most of these studies look at 'problem drinkers'....'Abusers' can drink socially (that is, under control), whereas truly dependent individuals cannot."
MYTH: All drugs damage brain cells. "Actually, relatively few have been shown to damage brain cells through a toxic effect. These include alcohol (high doses over a long time), 'inhalants'... methamphetamine and MDMA (shown in animal studies with high doses, but not yet in humans)."
MYTH: Drugs cause "addiction." "An interesting scientific question is: If drugs cause 'addiction,' then why doesn't everyone who uses drugs too much, too often, become dependent (addicted)? Scientists are looking into genetic and other unknown factors that cause some people to become dependent while sparing others of this brain pathology."
MYTH: It is possible to overdose on LSD. "LSD is a major hallucinogen and can cause people to jump from tall buildings (for example) in their hallucinogenic state. However, there is no known lethal dose in humans."
MYTH: The more a person is educated about drugs, the less likely they are to become "addicted". "This idea that chemical dependence is preventable is an old one. Strong indirect evident concerning the brain mechanisms involved in dependence tells us that 'addiction' cannot be prevented. If the above statement were true, physicians, nurses, and pharmacists would have a low rate of chemical dependence. Sadly, these health professionals have an incidence of dependence that is at least as high as the general population."
MYTH: Anyone who drinks too much, too often, is an alcoholic. "If the 'too much, too often' myth were true, then most college students would be alcoholics. In fact, most college students ABUSE alcohol, while only 10-15% show dependence on alcohol at some point in their drinking careers."
MYTH: Everyone "has what it takes" to become "addicted" to drugs. "If 'addiction' (dependence) is a chronic medical disease, then why should it be different from other medical diseases? Everyone doesn't 'have what it takes' to get sickle cell anemia, insulin-dependent diabetes, or AIDS."
Posted by Dirk Hanson at 3:15 PM
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The Troubled Teen Industry / Study Rates Adolescent Drug Treatment Programs
« on: February 27, 2008, 10:43:24 PM »
This is a braodcast from NPR in 2004. Study done by researcher:Mathea falco Background: worked for govt. narcotics division. Now is president of Drug strategies.com.
Study info is available at http://drugstrategies.com, and also here: http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/158/9/904?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=treating%2Bteens&searchid=1094586505532_999&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&journalcode=archpedi
http://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ATC&showDate=06-Sep-2004&segNum=15&NPRMediaPref=RM
Let us discuss this stuff...I mean wow, if they have had a study that says these treatments of teens are not effective then why no action. Why is America still not caring for their children? The public needs to keep demanding that our society will tolerate this no longer!
I think these people are bogus anyway. look here:
Drug Strategies
1616 P St, NW, Suite 220
Washington, DC 20036
This is also a link from their website: http://www.drugstrategies.org/pubs.html#free
Just the name smells of a Semblerite to me; who agrees?
Suspicions confirmed: direct link with the DFAF: http://www.drugstrategies.org/links.html
So, basically I view this whole study thing as propaganda put out by the DFAF.
-DP
Study info is available at http://drugstrategies.com, and also here: http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/158/9/904?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=treating%2Bteens&searchid=1094586505532_999&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&journalcode=archpedi
http://www.npr.org/templates/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ATC&showDate=06-Sep-2004&segNum=15&NPRMediaPref=RM
Let us discuss this stuff...I mean wow, if they have had a study that says these treatments of teens are not effective then why no action. Why is America still not caring for their children? The public needs to keep demanding that our society will tolerate this no longer!
I think these people are bogus anyway. look here:
Drug Strategies
1616 P St, NW, Suite 220
Washington, DC 20036
This is also a link from their website: http://www.drugstrategies.org/pubs.html#free
Just the name smells of a Semblerite to me; who agrees?
Suspicions confirmed: direct link with the DFAF: http://www.drugstrategies.org/links.html
So, basically I view this whole study thing as propaganda put out by the DFAF.
-DP
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Kids Helping Kids / Here is what can happen with wrong placement of your child
« on: February 17, 2008, 11:20:00 PM »51
Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Child abuse report for 2005 says much about abuse from residential facilities
« on: February 11, 2008, 11:29:42 PM »
http://www.americanhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nr_fact_sheets_childemotionalabuse
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm05/index.htm
Feedback, comments?
always welcome.
This stuff upset me as most of the criteria has been met to deem abusive situations as "substanstiated" in many of these facilities. Also, if ye notice in the study the incidents of abuses are higher in states like florida(eh hem) and Ohio, and all of the usual suspects.
Let's draw attention to these studies people, and when we make complaints let's reference some of the facts and statistics in these studies.
sincerely,
-DP
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm05/index.htm
Feedback, comments?
always welcome.
This stuff upset me as most of the criteria has been met to deem abusive situations as "substanstiated" in many of these facilities. Also, if ye notice in the study the incidents of abuses are higher in states like florida(eh hem) and Ohio, and all of the usual suspects.
Let's draw attention to these studies people, and when we make complaints let's reference some of the facts and statistics in these studies.
sincerely,
-DP
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The Troubled Teen Industry / Child abuse report for 2005 contains vital info about residential facilities
« on: February 11, 2008, 11:27:43 PM »
http://www.americanhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nr_fact_sheets_childemotionalabuse
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm05/index.htm
Feedback, comments?
always welcome.
This stuff upset me as most of the criteria has been met to deem abusive situations as "substanstiated" in many of these facilities. Also, if ye notice in the study the incidents of abuses are higher in states like florida(eh hem) and Ohio, and all of the usual suspects.
Let's draw attention to these studies people, and when we make complaints let's reference some of the facts and statistics in these studies.
sincerely,
-DP
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm05/index.htm
Feedback, comments?
always welcome.
This stuff upset me as most of the criteria has been met to deem abusive situations as "substanstiated" in many of these facilities. Also, if ye notice in the study the incidents of abuses are higher in states like florida(eh hem) and Ohio, and all of the usual suspects.
Let's draw attention to these studies people, and when we make complaints let's reference some of the facts and statistics in these studies.
sincerely,
-DP
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News Items / check this out ...all of you! not that we didn't already know this....
« on: February 05, 2008, 11:57:36 PM »
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/75081/
How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness
By Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. Posted January 28, 2008.
Big pharma has some new customers. Not complying with authority is now, in many cases, labeled a disease.
155 COMMENTS
For a generation now, disruptive young Americans who rebel against authority figures have been increasingly diagnosed with mental illnesses and medicated with psychiatric (psychotropic) drugs.
Disruptive young people who are medicated with Ritalin, Adderall and other amphetamines routinely report that these drugs make them "care less" about their boredom, resentments and other negative emotions, thus making them more compliant and manageable. And so-called atypical antipsychotics such as Risperdal and Zyprexa -- powerful tranquilizing drugs -- are increasingly prescribed to disruptive young Americans, even though in most cases they are not displaying any psychotic symptoms.
Many talk show hosts think I'm kidding when I mention oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). After I assure them that ODD is in fact an official mental illness -- an increasingly popular diagnosis for children and teenagers -- they often guess that ODD is simply a new term for juvenile delinquency. But that is not the case.
Young people diagnosed with ODD, by definition, are doing nothing illegal (illegal behaviors are a symptom of another mental illness called conduct disorder). In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) created oppositional defiant disorder, defining it as "a pattern of negativistic, hostile and defiant behavior." The official symptoms of ODD include "often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules" and "often argues with adults." While ODD-diagnosed young people are obnoxious with adults they don't respect, these kids can be a delight with adults they do respect; yet many of them are medicated with psychotropic drugs.
An even more common reaction to oppressive authorities than overt defiance is some type of passive defiance.
John Holt, the late school critic, described passive-aggressive strategies employed by prisoners in concentration camps and slaves on plantations, as well as some children in classrooms. Holt pointed out that subjects may attempt to appease their rulers while still satisfying some part of their own desire for dignity "by putting on a mask, by acting much more stupid and incompetent than they really are, by denying their rulers the full use of their intelligence and ability, by declaring their minds and spirits free of their enslaved bodies."
Holt observed that by "going stupid" in a classroom, children frustrate authorities through withdrawing the most intelligent and creative parts of their minds from the scene, thus achieving some sense of potency.
Going stupid -- or passive aggression -- is one of many nondisease explanations for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Studies show that virtually all ADHD-diagnosed children will pay attention to activities that they enjoy or that they have chosen. In other words, when ADHD-labeled kids are having a good time and in control, the "disease" goes away.
There are other passive rebellions against authority that have been medicalized by mental health authorities. I have talked to many people who earlier in their lives had been diagnosed with substance abuse, depression and even schizophrenia but believe that their "symptoms" had in fact been a kind of resistance to the demands of an oppressive environment. Some of these people now call themselves psychiatric survivors.
While there are several reasons for behavioral disruptiveness and emotional difficulties, rebellion against an oppressive environment is one common reason that is routinely not even considered by many mental health professionals. Why? It is my experience that many mental health professionals are unaware of how extremely obedient they are to authorities. Acceptance into medical school and graduate school and achieving a Ph.D. or M.D. means jumping through many meaningless hoops, all of which require much behavioral, attentional and emotional compliance to authorities -- even disrespected ones. When compliant M.D.s and Ph.D.s begin seeing noncompliant patients, many of these doctors become anxious, sometimes even ashamed of their own excessive compliance, and this anxiety and shame can be fuel for diseasing normal human reactions.
Two ways of subduing defiance are to criminalize it and to pathologize it, and U.S. history is replete with examples of both. In the same era that John Adams' Sedition Act criminalized criticism of U.S. governmental policy, Dr. Benjamin Rush, the father of American psychiatry (his image adorns the APA seal), pathologized anti-authoritarianism. Rush diagnosed those rebelling against a centralized federal authority as having an "excess of the passion for liberty" that "constituted a form of insanity." He labeled this illness "anarchia."
Throughout American history, both direct and indirect resistance to authority has been diseased. In an 1851 article in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, Louisiana physician Samuel Cartwright reported his discovery of "drapetomania," the disease that caused slaves to flee captivity. Cartwright also reported his discovery of "dysaesthesia aethiopis," the disease that caused slaves to pay insufficient attention to the master's needs. Early versions of ODD and ADHD?
In Rush's lifetime, few Americans took anarchia seriously, nor was drapetomania or dysaesthesia aethiopis taken seriously in Cartwright's lifetime. But these were eras before the diseasing of defiance had a powerful financial ally in Big Pharma.
In every generation there will be authoritarians. There will also be the "bohemian bourgeois" who may enjoy anti-authoritarian books, music, and movies but don't act on them. And there will be genuine anti-authoritarians, who are so pained by exploitive hierarchies that they take action. Only occasionally in American history do these genuine anti-authoritarians actually take effective direct action that inspires others to successfully revolt, but every once in a while a Tom Paine comes along. So authoritarians take no chances, and the state-corporate partnership criminalizes anti-authoritarianism, pathologizes it, markets drugs to "cure" it and financially intimidates those who might buck the system.
It would certainly be a dream of Big Pharma and those who favor an authoritarian society if every would-be Tom Paine -- or Crazy Horse, Tecumseh, Emma Goldman or Malcolm X -- were diagnosed as a youngster with mental illness and quieted with a lifelong regimen of chill pills. The question is: Has this dream become reality?
See more stories tagged with: mental health, mental illness, big pharma, teenage rebellion, psychiatric drugs, psychotropic drugs, antipsychotics, odd, oppositional defiant diso
Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and author of Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Chelsea Green, 2007).
How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness
By Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. Posted January 28, 2008.
Big pharma has some new customers. Not complying with authority is now, in many cases, labeled a disease.
155 COMMENTS
For a generation now, disruptive young Americans who rebel against authority figures have been increasingly diagnosed with mental illnesses and medicated with psychiatric (psychotropic) drugs.
Disruptive young people who are medicated with Ritalin, Adderall and other amphetamines routinely report that these drugs make them "care less" about their boredom, resentments and other negative emotions, thus making them more compliant and manageable. And so-called atypical antipsychotics such as Risperdal and Zyprexa -- powerful tranquilizing drugs -- are increasingly prescribed to disruptive young Americans, even though in most cases they are not displaying any psychotic symptoms.
Many talk show hosts think I'm kidding when I mention oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). After I assure them that ODD is in fact an official mental illness -- an increasingly popular diagnosis for children and teenagers -- they often guess that ODD is simply a new term for juvenile delinquency. But that is not the case.
Young people diagnosed with ODD, by definition, are doing nothing illegal (illegal behaviors are a symptom of another mental illness called conduct disorder). In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) created oppositional defiant disorder, defining it as "a pattern of negativistic, hostile and defiant behavior." The official symptoms of ODD include "often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules" and "often argues with adults." While ODD-diagnosed young people are obnoxious with adults they don't respect, these kids can be a delight with adults they do respect; yet many of them are medicated with psychotropic drugs.
An even more common reaction to oppressive authorities than overt defiance is some type of passive defiance.
John Holt, the late school critic, described passive-aggressive strategies employed by prisoners in concentration camps and slaves on plantations, as well as some children in classrooms. Holt pointed out that subjects may attempt to appease their rulers while still satisfying some part of their own desire for dignity "by putting on a mask, by acting much more stupid and incompetent than they really are, by denying their rulers the full use of their intelligence and ability, by declaring their minds and spirits free of their enslaved bodies."
Holt observed that by "going stupid" in a classroom, children frustrate authorities through withdrawing the most intelligent and creative parts of their minds from the scene, thus achieving some sense of potency.
Going stupid -- or passive aggression -- is one of many nondisease explanations for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Studies show that virtually all ADHD-diagnosed children will pay attention to activities that they enjoy or that they have chosen. In other words, when ADHD-labeled kids are having a good time and in control, the "disease" goes away.
There are other passive rebellions against authority that have been medicalized by mental health authorities. I have talked to many people who earlier in their lives had been diagnosed with substance abuse, depression and even schizophrenia but believe that their "symptoms" had in fact been a kind of resistance to the demands of an oppressive environment. Some of these people now call themselves psychiatric survivors.
While there are several reasons for behavioral disruptiveness and emotional difficulties, rebellion against an oppressive environment is one common reason that is routinely not even considered by many mental health professionals. Why? It is my experience that many mental health professionals are unaware of how extremely obedient they are to authorities. Acceptance into medical school and graduate school and achieving a Ph.D. or M.D. means jumping through many meaningless hoops, all of which require much behavioral, attentional and emotional compliance to authorities -- even disrespected ones. When compliant M.D.s and Ph.D.s begin seeing noncompliant patients, many of these doctors become anxious, sometimes even ashamed of their own excessive compliance, and this anxiety and shame can be fuel for diseasing normal human reactions.
Two ways of subduing defiance are to criminalize it and to pathologize it, and U.S. history is replete with examples of both. In the same era that John Adams' Sedition Act criminalized criticism of U.S. governmental policy, Dr. Benjamin Rush, the father of American psychiatry (his image adorns the APA seal), pathologized anti-authoritarianism. Rush diagnosed those rebelling against a centralized federal authority as having an "excess of the passion for liberty" that "constituted a form of insanity." He labeled this illness "anarchia."
Throughout American history, both direct and indirect resistance to authority has been diseased. In an 1851 article in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, Louisiana physician Samuel Cartwright reported his discovery of "drapetomania," the disease that caused slaves to flee captivity. Cartwright also reported his discovery of "dysaesthesia aethiopis," the disease that caused slaves to pay insufficient attention to the master's needs. Early versions of ODD and ADHD?
In Rush's lifetime, few Americans took anarchia seriously, nor was drapetomania or dysaesthesia aethiopis taken seriously in Cartwright's lifetime. But these were eras before the diseasing of defiance had a powerful financial ally in Big Pharma.
In every generation there will be authoritarians. There will also be the "bohemian bourgeois" who may enjoy anti-authoritarian books, music, and movies but don't act on them. And there will be genuine anti-authoritarians, who are so pained by exploitive hierarchies that they take action. Only occasionally in American history do these genuine anti-authoritarians actually take effective direct action that inspires others to successfully revolt, but every once in a while a Tom Paine comes along. So authoritarians take no chances, and the state-corporate partnership criminalizes anti-authoritarianism, pathologizes it, markets drugs to "cure" it and financially intimidates those who might buck the system.
It would certainly be a dream of Big Pharma and those who favor an authoritarian society if every would-be Tom Paine -- or Crazy Horse, Tecumseh, Emma Goldman or Malcolm X -- were diagnosed as a youngster with mental illness and quieted with a lifelong regimen of chill pills. The question is: Has this dream become reality?
See more stories tagged with: mental health, mental illness, big pharma, teenage rebellion, psychiatric drugs, psychotropic drugs, antipsychotics, odd, oppositional defiant diso
Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and author of Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Chelsea Green, 2007).
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Web forum hosting / Re: YLF FORUM
« on: January 30, 2008, 10:30:16 PM »Quote from: "psy"
Ok. Can do. Disclaimer removed.
Thank you!
-DP
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / another one of my favorites....definitely applies!
« on: January 22, 2008, 08:25:59 PM »57
Kids Helping Kids / Kids Helping Kids Protests
« on: January 21, 2008, 09:51:41 PM »
Let us speak out against their abusive treatment modality!
Who is with me?
Pm me if ye are available to protest!
-DP
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/613325
Who is with me?
Pm me if ye are available to protest!
-DP
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/613325
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Comments
« on: January 16, 2008, 11:11:02 PM »
I sent a comment but it says that it is subject to approval. So, we shall see.
-DP
-DP
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Teen Challenge / Just found out last night
« on: December 27, 2007, 08:04:25 PM »
Hey everyone,
I just found out last night that their used to be a teen challenge in Milford, Ohio. I found this out from an artist that works for me.
She has lived around the Milford/Loveland , Ohio area for over 20 years, and yes she remembers the old STRAIGHT INC. building,as well.
She is goingto takemesoon on adrive uptothe old teen challengebuildingto getaglimpseof it. I will report back after I find out more information.
warm regards to all,
-DP
I just found out last night that their used to be a teen challenge in Milford, Ohio. I found this out from an artist that works for me.
She has lived around the Milford/Loveland , Ohio area for over 20 years, and yes she remembers the old STRAIGHT INC. building,as well.
She is goingto takemesoon on adrive uptothe old teen challengebuildingto getaglimpseof it. I will report back after I find out more information.
warm regards to all,
-DP
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Open Free for All / OMG the screenplay is frying my brain
« on: December 19, 2007, 01:29:55 AM »
hello to all just taking a break from writing while i eat my sandwhich.
Anyone out there?
-DP
Anyone out there?
-DP