Eating Drugs LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays eye-opening tale

eye-opening tale

our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes

PROSE Award Finalist for Psychology and Applied Social Work

but she prefers to fly

Bad Indians—part tribal history

Eating Drugs LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays eye-opening taleA Hindu monk in Calcutta refuses to take his psychotropic medications. His psychiatrist explains that just as his body needs food, the drugs are nutrition for his starved mind. Does it matter howor whetherpatients understand their prescribed drugs? Millions of people in India are routinely prescribed mood medications. Pharmaceutical companies give doctors strong incentives to write as many prescriptions as possible, with as little awkward questioning