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Psychiatry/Psychology > schizophrenia drug treatment though. Whitaker has some points, especially about the way that companies push drugs on people, but his book would have benefited from both a broader look at drug treatment for mental illnesses, plural, and a more nuanced discussion of the specifics of treatment.

He also was really quick to take correlation and imply causation. Like you do when you talk about the common thread of schizophrenics in the developed world vs the developing world. You could just as well argue that the difference is clean drinking water, or any other number of things.



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