WHERE:
Legacy Books and Café, 5249
Delmar (near
Union)
A panel discussion will include:
* Michael A Mancini, PhD, School
of Social Work, St. Louis University
* John Chasnoff, Gateway Green
Alliance
* Zaki Baruti, Universal African
Peoples Organization [moderator]
Over-prescribing, inappropriate
prescribing, and over-diagnosing have led to a reliance on medications
to solve psychiatric problems -- with dangerous consequences.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in children and minority
populations and communities.
Yet, psychiatric medications
can provide benefits to individuals with emotional disabilities
and may be an important tool for recovery. However, medications
are not as effective by themselves as when they are used with
other tools (therapy, healthy lifestyle changes, social support
etc).
Are pharmaceutical companies,
in collaboration with organized psychiatry, exaggerating the
importance of psychiatric medications? Are they downplaying
the negative effects these drugs can have?
Sponsored by Gateway Green Alliance
and Universal African Peoples Organization. For more information
call 314-727-8554 or visit:
Sponsored by Gateway Green Alliance and Universal African Peoples
Organization. For more information
call 314-727-8554 or visit:
