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Mar 30, 2009 51 min

Sane Medication Policy: Robert Whitaker

from Madness Radio Hosted by Will Hall, Madness Radio

Has society’s embrace of psychiatric medications led to recovery — or chronic disability? What would honest medical policy and treatment standards be if they were free of pharmaceutical company corruption? Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Whitaker, author of Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, discusses medications as a failed paradigm of care, and imagines what a sane alternative would look like. http://www.madinamerica.com The post Sane Medication Policy: Robert Whitaker first appeared on Madness Radio.

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