All manifestos lack the kind of preventive mental health strategy that will stem the rising tide of mental illness.
- Professor in Health History, University of Strathclyde
Investing in people’s future mental health, based on the key socioeconomic factors underlying it, is the only way to address this rising problem.
Social psychiatry has fallen from favour. It’s time to revisit it.
Mental health experts have called for universal basic income as far back as 1969.
An audio version of an in depth article on the history of Ritalin, and what the future holds for the drug.
The biography of a mercurial medicine.
In identifying a failing education system as it trailed the Russians, America discovered many low-achieving youngsters had ADHD.
A worrying lack of open-minded research means we do not know exactly why food allergy is on the rise.
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