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Oct 18 2007 | Comments 3
County labelled ‘kiddie coke capital’
liz | 11:31 AM | Uncategorized
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County labelled ‘kiddie coke capital’
liz | 11:31 AM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
The “commission ” sited in the article is a Scientology supported political group. The fact that that they can issue a press release which leads to a reference to a Lancet article with no clarification of the VAST difference between the two entities is a shame.
The powerful label and the powerless get labels. Chilling.
What’s worse — that Scientologists were the sole people interviewed for a story about psychiatry, that the tabloid-happy “kiddie coke” headline led the story — or that there might be some truth to the fact that the kids of Hampshire, England are overmedicated with Ritalin?
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