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Seven percent of Americans are now addicted to a legal psychotropic drug.23 Prescription drug abuse has become a bigger problem than illicit drug abuse. If there is a conceivable way to sell a new diagnosis so that people will incorrectly believe they have it, drug companies will have figured it out and will do it successfully—if sometimes illegall
... See moreAllen Frances • Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
Anna Fels. “Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium?” The New York Times (Sept. 13, 2014).
Timothy Ferriss • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Sam Harris | #338 - The Sin of Moral Equivalence
samharris.orgLooking to the future, some neuroscientists envision a dramatic transformation of criminal law. David Eagleman, for one, welcomes a time when “we may someday find that many types of bad behavior have a basic biological explanation [and] eventually think about bad decision making in the same way we think about any physical process, such as diabetes
... See moreSally Satel • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
Jonathan Haidt • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
research. But they have also had the very harmful unintended consequence of triggering and helping to maintain a runaway diagnostic inflation that threatens normal and results in massive overtreatment with psychiatric medication.
Allen Frances • Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life
Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis: How Perspectives and Politics Replace Science in Mental Health
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