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	<title>David Strug</title>
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		<title>Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OPELOUSAS, La. — At 18 months, Kyle Warren started taking a daily antipsychotic drug on the orders of a pediatrician trying to quell the boy’s severe temper tantrums.
Thus began a troubled toddler’s journey from one doctor to another, from one diagnosis to another, involving even more drugs. Autism, bipolar disorder, hyperactivity, insomnia, oppositional defiant disorder. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidstrug.com/2010/09/child%e2%80%99s-ordeal-shows-risks-of-psychosis-drugs-for-young/</link>
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		<title>Palliative Care Extends Life, Study Finds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a study that sheds new light on the effects of end-of-life care, doctors have found that patients with terminal lung cancer who began receiving palliative care immediately upon diagnosis not only were happier, more mobile and in less pain as the end neared — but they also lived nearly three months longer. In a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidstrug.com/2010/08/palliative-care-extends-life-study-finds/</link>
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		<title>What Is There About 20-Somethings?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This question pops up everywhere, underlying concerns about “failure to  launch” and “boomerang kids.” Two new sitcoms feature grown children  moving back in with their parents — “$#*! My Dad Says,” starring William Shatner as a divorced curmudgeon whose 20-something son can’t make it on his  own as a blogger, and “Big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidstrug.com/2010/08/270/</link>
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		<title>The Rise of the Psychopharmaceutical Industry 1987-2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Whitaker’s brilliant book  Anatomy of an Epidemic asks a simple question.Why , if psychiatric drug treatments are so efficacious, has the number of people on disability for mental illness more than tripled in the last 25 years? Most doctors and researchers answered this question by stating that the numbers have increased simply because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidstrug.com/2010/08/the-rise-of-the-psychopharmaceutical-industry-1987-2010/</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s Only One Way to Stop A Bully</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HERE in Massachusetts, teachers and administrators are spending their summers becoming familiar with the new state law that requires schools to institute an anti-bullying curriculum, investigate acts of bullying and report the most serious cases to law enforcement officers.
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		<link>http://www.davidstrug.com/2010/07/theres-only-one-way-to-stop-a-bully/</link>
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		<title>In Midlife, Boomers Are Happy — and Suicidal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are suddenly feeling confused about whether to greet middle age  with open arms or dread, it is understandable. In recent weeks,  researchers reported that Americans in midlife are a remarkably  contented lot, and that they also have the
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		<link>http://www.davidstrug.com/2010/06/httpwww-nytimes-com20100613weekinreview13cohen-html/</link>
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		<title>Depression’s Upside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Depression’s Upside
The mystery of depression is not that it exists — the mind, like the  flesh, is prone to malfunction. Instead, the paradox of depression has  long been its prevalence. While most mental illnesses are extremely rare  — schizophrenia, for example, is seen in less than 1 percent of the  population [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidstrug.com/2010/05/246/</link>
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		<title>Married (Happily) With Issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Married (Happily) With Issues
The author had a good marriage but thought it could be improved. She dragged her husband through all sorts of therapies.
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		<link>http://www.davidstrug.com/2009/12/married-happily-with-issues/</link>
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		<title>Health and Cognitive Growth of Latino Toddlers: At Risk or Maternal Paradox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Epidemiologists have shown how birth outcomes are generally robust for immigrant Latina mothers, despite often situated in          poor households, advanced by their strong prenatal and nutritional practices.
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		<link>http://www.davidstrug.com/2009/11/health-and-cognitive-growth-of-latino-toddlers-at-risk-or-maternal-paradox/</link>
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		<title>War, Mental Health and Its treatment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the authorities say they cannot yet tell us why an Army psychiatrist would go on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas, we do know the sorts of stories he had been dealing with as he tried to help those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan readjust to life outside the war zone. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidstrug.com/2009/11/war-mental-health-and-its-treatment/</link>
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