The myth of the chemical cure
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Insightful article on the BBC news site
it is often said the fact that drug treatment “works” proves there’s an underlying biological deficiency.
Psychoactive drugs make people feel different
But there is another explanation for how psychiatric drugs affect people with emotional problems.
It is frequently overlooked that drugs used in psychiatry are psychoactive drugs, like alcohol and cannabis. Psychoactive drugs make people feel different; they put people into an altered mental and physical state. They affect everyone, regardless of whether they have a mental disorder or not. Therefore, an alternative way of understanding how psychiatric drugs affect people is to look at the psychoactive effects they produce.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8138893.stm
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