This week Mad in America explores three new studies related to increasing psychiatric stimulant use. The first finds that psychiatric drug use among US Evidence from Canada, Australia, and the United ...

I never made the direct connection between my gut and how anxiety created physical problems! Why did not one single medical ...

This week, Mad in America examines three articles related to negative effects of psychotherapy. The first reviews the ...

Former FDA officials write that claims that the black warning led to an increase in youth suicides are "factually inaccurate.

When someone seeks therapy, they are often already carrying more than they can comfortably manage. They may be distressed, ...

Despite VHA’s $571 million suicide prevention budget, veterans are dying by suicide at alarmingly high rates. Advocates want answers and accountability. Participants traveled from across the US and ...

“The reader whose knowledge of separated twin studies comes only from the secondary accounts provided by textbooks can have little idea of what, in the eyes of the original investigators, constitutes ...

Mad Law and Human Rights: An attorney and psychiatric survivor, Tina Minkowitz writes on the new perspectives in human rights law that emerged in the work done by users and survivors of psychiatry on ...

David Healy is a founder of Data Based Medicine and RxISK.org and has authored of over 240 peer reviewed articles, 300 other pieces, and 25 books. His main areas of research are adverse effects of ...

MIA Research News Team: Ayurdhi Dhar is a spotlight interviewer for Mad in America. She does some professoring (at the University of West Georgia) and academic writing, but mostly likes to be known ...

Policy for Recovery: As a former state mental health and addictions commissioner, Bob Nikkel writes about policy and practice changes that are needed to promote recovery and resilience while ...

Wellness Wordworks: Corinna West writes about the business she founded, which coordinates people suffering from emotional distress to provide instant peer support for one another in exchange for ...