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Will Hall on Marijuana
http://beyondmeds.com/2015/08/26/marijuana-for-mental-health/ Wide-ranging, intelligent, balanced and informed contribution to the cannabis debate by Will – whose writing is consistently of high quality. The writer has no agenda about what drugs other competent adult human beings do/don’t decide to take – but … Continue reading →
Posted in anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, child development, client as 'expert', clients' perspective, cognitive, compulsive behaviour, consciousness, consent, cultural questions, cultural taboos, dependence, diagnoses of ADHD, diagnoses of bipolar, Disconnection, diversity, DSM, ecological, education, ethics, family systems, fear, healing, hearing voices, herbalism, iatrogenic illness, Monica Cassani, natural world, parenting, perception, political, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, reality, regulation, relationship, research evidence, risk, schizophrenia, sexual violence, spirituality, sustainability, trauma, values & principles, violence, Will Hall, working with clients
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Johann Hari on Addiction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html Click on the link for this excellent article. We have seen this in a number of places over the past few days (thank you, Brent Potter and Monica Cassani), and it deserves a wide audience. The writer’s sense at … Continue reading →
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