Tag: women and psychiatric drugs

The Answers in the Attic: A Mother-Daughter Story of Overmedication and...

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In 1959, my mother suffered what people referred to as a nervous breakdown after my sister’s birth. I puzzled over why Mom never recovered, until I found Dad’s collection of medical records in my sister’s attic. How could anyone give a nursing mother with three small children so many drugs in such a short period of time?

ā€œThe Sexist Ads Big Pharma Has Used to Hawk Drugsā€

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Martha Rosenberg analyzes the ā€œslick, Mad Men-style adsā€ that ran in medical journals from the 1950s-70s ā€œin which women clearly ā€˜knew their place’ and...