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Doubting Psychiatry

Another lengthy analysis has been done on the over prescription of psychotropic drugs in America: is the tide turning against our favorite little pills?
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Another lengthy analysis has been done on the over prescription of psychotropic drugs in America: is the tide turning against our favorite little pills? “Anatomy of an Epidemic” is the first book to investigate the long-term outcomes of patients treated with psychiatric drugs, and Whitaker finds that, overall, the drugs may be doing more harm than good.”

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