Category Archives: medication madness

Psychiatry: the Drug Pushers – Will Self

Posted on August 21, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Writer Will Self knows a thing or two about drugs – he was once [in]famously sacked for admitting he had snorted heroine on the [UK] Prime Minister’s plane – so he likely  also knows how to spot a drug pusher: … Continue reading →

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TopDog Talks Drugs

Posted on August 19, 2013 by dave umbongo

 A reblog today of  a recent piece by me ol’ mucka  TopDog Ashton, the voice only one person can hear.  TopDog gives us his voice-eye perspective on a question: is pills, drugs, meds a lifestyle choice? and on what it … Continue reading →

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psych meds and drugs – some straight talk

Posted on August 14, 2013 by dave umbongo

So much talk about mental health  is really just talk about about drugs. on meds                         v       off meds  meds as magical cure  v     … Continue reading →

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Cuckoo – On being sane in insane places. pt 4

Posted on July 19, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

“Around the same time that the Jack Nicholson character in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest was trying to get out of psychiatric hospital, a group of eight people were doing just the opposite.” So begins this excellent radio show … Continue reading →

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the combo – psychiatric soup

Posted on July 12, 2013 by dave umbongo

[…continued from Reducing the pool of normal] The Big Book of Woe, soup-in-a-can, psychiatrists as car mechanics and dreaming of white lavender scented  sheets… DSM and inclusion For all the fuss, at least DSM5 is, unlike  its predecessors,  inclusive – since its … Continue reading →

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Pill Poppers

Posted on June 18, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

BBC Horizon documentary about our relationship with tiny little tablets of crushed powder that seem to have magical properties. It also says a lot about our society’s magical belief in the power of Doctors and scientists to fix everything that … Continue reading →

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Dying By Prescription: Oxycontin controversy

Posted on June 13, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

  Global TV’s  Current affairs show 16×9 [Canada]  Published on Aug 22, 2012 Part 1 – Oxycotin was touted as a miracle, pain relief with few side effects and less addictive than morphine. Soon it was the most prescribed drug in … Continue reading →

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Bad Bad Bad: how drug companies mislead doctors – Ben Goldacre

Posted on June 11, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Dr Ben Goldacre is a physician, psychiatrist and epidemiologist; writer, broadcaster and really fast TEDtalker. He was in Toronto publicising his new book Bad Science in Feb, here he is in interview with Anna Maria Tremonte on CBC’s The Current from … Continue reading →

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how medicines are marketed

Posted on June 10, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

A wonderful look back in time -from io9.com -to the days when marketing pharmaceuticals was much more innocent. Travelling snake oil salesmen criss-crossed the land twixt town and city, peddling their wares to  convince you and me  that their poisons were worth … Continue reading →

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DSM5 – mad, bad, or just plain daft ?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Only days to go in the countdown to the publication of the worlds most expensive doorstop DSM5. If you really do need a doorstop try your  local dollar store – mine has two for $1.29 and they work perfectly well. … Continue reading →

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