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Medicating Normal: A Conversation with Patrick Hahn

July 22, 2022 by David Healy

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 childhood sexual abuse and other adverse childhood experiences in the genesis of those conditions. His second book, Prescription for Sorrow: Antidepressants, Suicide, and Violence, traces the history of how so-called “antidepressants” came on to the market and have stayed on the market, detailing how the drug companies and the mostly compliant mainstream media have exaggerated the benefits and hidden the harms caused these drugs, which include addiction, suicide, and violence. His latest book, Obedience Pills: ADHD and the Medicalization of Childhood, describes the harms wrought by the drugs commonly prescribed for something called “ADHD,” and the nexus of special interests which sustains this twenty-billion-dollar-a-year industry whose influence is now spreading from the United States to the entire globe. Dr. Hahn is an Affiliate Professor of Biology at Loyola University Maryland. Relevant

Links: Books by Patrick Hahn: https://www.amazon.com/Patrick-D.-Hah… Patrick Hahn’s website: https://patrickhahn5.wixsite.com/meli… Patrick Hahn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PatrickDHahn Patrick Hahn’s Article, “ADHD: The Money Trail” on Mad in America: https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/05/… Patrick Hahn’s Author Page at Mad in America: https://www.madinamerica.com/author/p…

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