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How ADHD Was Sold

A new book outlines an epidemic of over-diagnosis and addiction.

by Adam Gaffney via The New Republic on September 23, 2016

Man working on a farm.

RFK Jr.’s 18th-Century Idea About Mental Health

The health secretary’s clearest plans for psychiatric treatment are a retreat to the past.

by Shayla Love via The Atlantic on April 4, 2025

Bleachman, a mascot created by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation as a part of a campaign directed at drug users and intended to help slow the transmission of HIV in needle-using communities, 1988.

What We Can Learn From Harm Reduction’s Defeats

The history of the movement is one of unlikely success. But what can we learn from embattled experiments like prescribed heroin?

by Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard via The Nation on February 15, 2022

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