Bruce E Levine

When the World Outlawed War: David Swanson's New Book

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 03.13.2012

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If any one piece of American history can re-energize the American people to again push their politicians, David Swanson's meticulously documented When the World Outlawed War can do it.

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Liberation Psychology and the Occupy Movement

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 02.12.2012

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While the term liberation psychology is less commonly known in the United States than in Latin America, the spirit of liberation psychology has been e...

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Confronting Bigots Intolerant of Alternative Mental Health Treatment

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite the success of alternative mental health treatments for many people, there still exists bigotry against these approaches.

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Psychologists Profit on Unending U.S. Wars by Teaching Positive Thinking to Soldiers

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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While pushing drugs and teaching positive thinking earns mental health professionals money and brownie points with the elite, there is another path for mental health professionals working with U.S. soldiers.

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Are Psychiatric Drugs Contributing to Mental Illness Disability?

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatry, Anatomy of an Epidemic, Silent Spring, Robert-Whitaker, Bruce E. Levine, Antidepressants, Health, Prozac, Healthy Living News
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Since 1955, mental illness disability rates in the U.S. have increased six-fold. At the same time, psychiatric drug use greatly increased in the 1950s and 1960s, then skyrocketed after 1988.

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Sharp Rise in U.S. Military Psychiatric Drug Use and Suicides

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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One in six service members is now taking at least one psychiatric drug, with many soldiers taking "drug cocktail" combinations. There has also been a large increase in military suicides over the last eight years.

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Psychiatric Drugs and Poor Kids

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Children covered by Medicaid are far more likely to be prescribed antipsychotic drugs than children covered by private insurance, even if they have no psychotic symptoms.

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When Liberals and Conservatives Are Two Sides of the Same Oppressive Coin

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Conservative-liberal American society is sure of itself. It is sure of which cultures are backwards and which personalities need to be modified.

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The Wave of Evil: New Report on ADHD Drugs Blowback

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Vyvanse, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adhd, Attention-Deficity-Hyperactivity-Disorder, Scientific American Mind, Ritalin, Johson & Johnson, Adderall, Pharmaceutical-Industrial Complex, Concerta, Amphetamine, Joseph Biederman, Bruce E. Levine, Cocaine, Healthy Living News
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ADHD drugs are either the "amphetamine-like" or actual amphetamines. It should not be surprising that long-term use is associated with many hazards.

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NPR Embarrassed by Psychiatrist Host: Bad Apple or Bad Barrel?

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, National Public Radio, Charles Grassley, Health, Npr, Frederick Goodwin, American Psychiatric Association, Heath Ledger, Joseph Biederman, Bruce E. Levine, Media News
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NPR announced that it had fired psychiatrist Frederick Goodwin. Goodwin was released after NPR learned that he had received at least $1.3 million from drug companies between 2000 and 2007.

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