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Smokescreens: How Working Kills Smokers

5. April 2013

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Smoking serves as a political smokescreen to hide the damage caused by occupational and environmental pollution.

“I got sick and tired of being treated like crap”

31. July 2011

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“I got sick and tired of being treated like crap”

by Jane Edgett - Hundreds of thousands of Canadian families have been plunged into poverty by a workers compensation system that denies them support.

Hungry for Solutions

10. January 2011

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Gabor Maté’s books are commercially successful because they tap into popular awareness of social problems while avoiding the uncomfortable conclusion that social revolution is required to solve them.

Madness, Power and the Media

3. January 2011

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Author Stephen Harper explains how media images of madness and mental distress reflect and reinforce the unequal social relations of capitalism.

Should Physicians be Activists?

20. September 2010

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Dr. Roland Wong is under threat of losing his license to practice medicine. He helped people on social assistance get extra money for food.

One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics

20. September 2010

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Corporate America is awash in cash it stole from working-class families, whose distressed children are being labeled with mental disorders and drugged into submission.

Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

18. May 2008

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Human beings protest their oppression with open rebellion and through symptoms of sickness and distress. The prison system crushes the rebels, medicine treats the sick, and psychiatry subordinates the distressed. The effect of psychiatric “treatment” is to resign the discontented to their lot and drug the resisters into submission.