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The big business of mental illness
Psychologist Lisa Cosgrove, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, explained that More than 5% of young schoolchildren take psychotropic drugs daily. And although this was stated based on a…
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Health
Netflix, Painkiller and the Empire of Pain (Oxycodon)
My son, at the age of 15, was prescribed OxyConti, suffered years of addiction, and at the age of 32 died alone and in the cold in a petrol station…
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Martyrdom of Bahai women and the Iranian regime
From the beginning, Bahais have been systematically tortured, convicted and executed in the state of Iran, and this has not changed to this day.
Health
The electric chair, psychiatric electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and the death penalty
On 6 August 1890, a form of execution called the electric chair was used for the first time in the United States. The first person executed was William Kemmler. Nine…
Antidepressants and Mental Health, a multi-billion dollars business
Health
Antidepressants and mental health, a damn billion-dollar business
The consumption of antidepressants keeps increasing in a world that looks easier for the pill than for finding the actual problem and solving it. In 2004, the Medicines Agency carried…
Health
Corruption, a lucrative business for the pharmaceutical industries
pharmaceutical - In August 2013, three months after Xi Jinping entered the Chinese government, a corruption scandal broke out in the national medical system, skilfully exercised by the multinational pharmaceutical…
Africa
Religious terrorism, the Kenyan sect and the West
More than 100 bodies were found this past April in the Shakahola Forest in southern Kenya, another form of religious terrorism.
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The attack on Calle del Correo, on September 13, 1974, an anniversary that nobody remembers.
On September 13, 1974, two activists from the terrorist group ETA entered the Cafeteria Rolando, located right at the top of Calle del Correo, next to what at that time…
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The mayor from Elche apologizes, but is it enough to ask for forgiveness?
For many years I have stayed away from Elche politics and its ins and outs. But writing from time to time about issues related to the city of Elche has…