Mental Health https://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk CMVM Psychiatry at work Tue, 31 May 2016 07:51:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 The War on Drugs is Harmful https://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/2015/08/the-war-on-drugs-is-harmful/ https://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/2015/08/the-war-on-drugs-is-harmful/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:05:57 +0000 http://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/?p=83 It is almost 50 years since President Robert Nixon declared the War on Drugs – against ‘public enemy number one’. Since then, the costs have soared to about $50 billion dollars a year for the USA alone and no good has come of it. About 500,000 US citizens are incarcerated … Continue reading →

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]]> https://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/2015/08/the-war-on-drugs-is-harmful/feed/ 0 Treatment for mental illness works, if people get it https://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/2015/03/treatment-for-mental-illness-works-if-people-get-it/ https://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/2015/03/treatment-for-mental-illness-works-if-people-get-it/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:11:33 +0000 http://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/?p=24 Many people, even some doctors and psychiatrists, say treatments for mental illness are ineffective and may even make things worse. Such mis-quoting and mis-reading (or maybe its no-reading) of the clinical trial literature must represent the biggest failing of mental health professionals to engage with the evidence and the public.

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