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 (Submitted by Carson Berrier - I pledge...)
+.Why did Americans propagandize that the drug problem was the result of foreign interference or marginalized men? Why do you think they were seeking to explain away the crisis in this way?
+. Why do you think the medical community could never reach a consensus about the risks and benefits of drugs like benzodiazepines? If the community had vested interest in promoting the medications, why wasn’t there more of an effort to coalesce.
+Submitted by Jack Kurz. I pledge...
+.) In the preface of Tones' reading, she mentions how we as a society should be wary about how we approach anxiety; "Consequently, we must resist the temptation to impose modern understanding of anxiety onto the past lest we flatten the chronological particularities that make history meaningful." (xi). Why do you think that is important whilst discussing anxiety in the past in general?
+.) In the Anatomy of an Epidemic, Whitaker highlights how the disarray of psychiatry is a form of an epidemic on its own by fueling the disabling of mental disorders. Would it be safe to assume that, rather than claiming to make progress in regards to labeling and treating mental illnesses, are we still stuck trying to complete the puzzle? Does the lack of a proper psychiatric approach to mental illnesses make this epidemic even worse, or rather the lack of proper treatment; something that is not new?
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+. With Thorazine, Adderall, and other medications proving effective against schizophrenia and ADHD symptoms, can we officially say that Foucault was wrong? Perhaps one could argue that the societal pressure to "take" pills to overcome their symptoms is a form of societal control, but even that might be too generous. What does the class think?
+. Are mental health drug manufacturers responsible for their drugs' addictive qualities to the same degree that opioid manufacturers are? Chapters 8 and 9 explain that people, especially women are over-targeted for medications. Is this practice similarly predatory?
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