[imc-st.louis] FORUM: Psychosis of Oppression

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Black & Green Wednesday

FORUM: Psychosis of Oppression

WHEN:  7 pm, Wednesday April 2, 2008

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:

www.gateway-greens.org   



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