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ADHD

Problem Behaviors are Medicalized in White Children and Criminalized in Black...

Zenobia Morrill - February 5, 2018 6

Race often determines whether school punishment or therapy and drugs will be used to address children’s problem behaviors.

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Out of Time: How Addiction Care Fails to Keep Pace with...

January 15, 2025

Why Psychology Must Reckon with Its Cultural and Historical Blind Spots

January 14, 2025

Empty Plates, Troubled Minds: New Research Exposes Mental Health Costs of...

January 13, 2025

Reframing Antipsychotic Discontinuation: A Psychiatrist’s Personal and Professional Call for Epistemic...

January 10, 2025

Blogs

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Schizophrenia and Homosexuality: My Experience and Case Studies

January 14, 2025

Burnout: How Mental Health Systems Fail Neurodivergent Professionals

January 10, 2025

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

January 9, 2025

My Involuntary Metamorphosis

January 3, 2025