Tag: drugs

Hanna Pickard on the elusive middle ground between personal responsibility and systemic factors in our understandings of addiction.

The prominent psychiatrist explores why antidepressants remain highly overprescribed and offers solutions to the problem.

MIA's Richard Sears interviews psychotherapist Anne Guy about working with clients withdrawing from psychiatric drugs.

Richard Sears interviews pharmaceutical industry scholar Lucas Richert about American counterculture and psychiatry in the 1970s.

The disease theory of addiction had been ingrained in our culture for 200 years when Nixon signed this law. But had we ever actually checked to see if it was all true?

Researchers find that most psychiatric drugs cause severe withdrawal despite attempt s to gradually decrease the dosage.

A new survey exploring antipsychotic user experience finds that more than half of the participants report only negative experiences.

A new systematic review finds that patients report reduced symptoms but also loss of self and agency while taking antipsychotics.

Experts across the globe point to the harms of drug companies’ influence on research, practice, and education in healthcare noting that it compromises patient care.

Psychiatrist and psychologist outline pharmacological and psychotherapeutic strategies for discontinuing antidepressants.

From Neuroskeptic: A new paper examines the often arbitrary distinction between "hard" and "soft" drugs, recommending that scientists avoid using these classifications in research publications. Article →­