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Obedience Pills

Obedience Pills: ADHD and the Medicalization of Childhood Every day across this great land of ours, children are swallowing pills for something called “Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.” Once upon a time, the mass drugging of children was the subject of spirited debate, but that controversy seems for the most part to have died down. The goal of this book is to re-ignite that controversy.

“An outstanding and painstakingly researched treatise on ADHD… It should be in every pediatrician’s office and in every graduate student’s library.”
Michelle Barrett, M. Ed., Founder, Del Dios Counseling Services

“A must-read for anyone currently living with a diagnosis of ADHD.” Bruce Cohen, University of Auckland

El Naufragio de lo Singular

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La esperanza de vida en Occidente lleva descendiendo desde 2015. Unido a esto, el clima de la atención sanitaria se ha vuelto tóxico. Esta crisis, tan urgente como el cambio climático global, tiene sus raíces en los mismos factores que impulsan dicho cambio.

El Naufragio de lo Singular examina nuestro entorno cambiante a través de una lente sanitaria y no económica. Una de las ventajas de esto, es que cada una de nosotras está mejor situada para corregir lo que va mal en el clima sanitario que para abordar el clima global. Al abordar lo que hay que cambiar en salud, podemos resolver nuestra crisis climática más amplia.

The Zyprexa Papers

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In The Zyprexa Papers, Author Jim Gottstein gives a riveting first-hand account of what really happened, including new details about how a small group of psychiatric survivors spread the Zyprexa Papers on the Internet untraceably. All of this within a gripping, plain-language explanation of complex legal maneuvering and his battles on behalf of Bill Bigley, the psychiatric patient whose ordeal made possible the exposure of the Zyprexa Papers. The hardcover edition of The Zyprexa Papers will be published June 1, 2021.

Shipwreck of the Singular

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Shipwreck of the Singular looks at our changing environment through a healthcare lens rather than an economic one. One advantage to this is that each of us are better placed to put right what is going wrong in the climate of healthcare than we are to tackle the global climate. In tackling what needs changing in health, we may solve our wider climate crisis.

This book does not come with recommendations from people of distinction, or experts who have turned a blind eye to developments that have landed us in the mess we now have.

The people best placed to grasp what is going wrong and force our ‘betters’ to justify the distinctions that have been bestowed on them are those whose lives have been touched by what is going wrong in healthcare.

Shipwreck shows you how we got to the point of peril we are now at. It points to a Care that needs courage. A book won’t get us there. It needs you to engage and engage others.

Prescription for Sorrow

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One could scarcely have been alive and conscious anywhere in the Western world any time in the past twenty-five years and not have been aware of a raging controversy surrounding antidepressants, suicide, and violence—a controversy that shows no sign of abating. During that same period, prescriptions for antidepressants have skyrocketed. So what is the story?

“Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide and Violence” by Patrick D. Hahn

Children of the Cure

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Children of the Cure tells the story of the only Medical Study that has two publications in the academic literature—telling precisely the opposite story—and how no one is bothered by this. Study 329 was a clinical study that began in 1994 giving a new antidepressant to teenagers. It has become the most famous clinical trial ever, leading to a fraud charge, a $3 billion fine, and a Black Box Warning.

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The Decapitation of Care: The Healthcare Manifesto

Samizdat has just launched The Decapitation of Care on Amazon — in English (print and kindle) and La santé décapitée in French (kindle) with French print in a few days time and El Fin Del Cuidado; Una breve historia del auge y caída de la atención médica in Spanish both print and kindle very soon after. […]

ADHD Is Over: Obedience Pills

OBEDIENCE PILLS is an intriguing interview with Dr. Patrick D. Hahn, a freelance writer and independent scholar with a long-standing interest in iatrogenic harm and the medicalization of everyday life. Dr. Hahn is an Affiliate professor of Biology at Loyola University in Maryland and he’s the author of three books: “Madness and Genetic Determinism: Is Mental Illness in Our Genes?”; “Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide, and Violence”; and as of recent…”Obedience Pills: ADHD and the Medicalization of Childhood.”

Critiquing the Psychiatric Model: Prescription for Sorrow

Critiquing the Psychiatric Model is the first Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series. Edited by Eric Maisel and Chuck Ruby. The book features a chapter on antidepressants and rampage killings by author Patrick D. Hahn from his book, Prescription for Sorrow. Understanding the current systems of psychology and psychiatry is […]

Radically Genuine: Obedience Pills

Dr. Roger McFillin interviews Patrick Hahn:

The kids are not alright. Millions of children continue to be dangerously drugged under the label “ADHD.” And the numbers continue to rise. How did we get here? n his latest book, Patrick D Hahn has documented the history and evolution of this diagnosis and the lack of evidence for any long-term benefits.

Drugs Given to Suppress the Childish Behavior of Children

I just finished Obedience Pills by Patrick Hahn. It is a very comprehensive, very readable account of the invention of ADHD and the total lack of any scientific support for the drugs given to suppress childish behavior by children. And how the diagnosis and drugs absolve parents and the other adults in their children’s lives from responsibility for raising them, as well as teaching the diagnosed they are not responsible for their behavior. There is much more, and Obedience Pills has a lot of commonsense as well as being meticulously supported.

Medicating Normal: A Conversation with Patrick Hahn

Medicating Normal Guest bio: Patrick D. Hahn is a freelance writer and independent scholar with a long-standing interest in iatrogenic harm and the medicalization of everyday life. His first book, Madness and Genetic Determinism: Is Mental Illness in Our Genes?, explores how genetic determinist views of so-called “mental illness” have obscured the well-established role of […]