disability population

[Marta Russell]

>On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Marta Russell wrote:
>>  had to go into drug rehabilitation.  It took over 6 months to get his
>>  body off this chemical. He noted that most of the people in drug
>>  rehab were casualities of the psychiatric and drug industries.
>
>Is it correlation or causation, and if causation, which is the causative
>influence? A vastly disproportionate number of the mentally ill, and
>especially those in mental hospitals, smoke, but it would be incorrect to
>blame mental illness on cigarettes.
>
>m.

In Jeffrey's case it was a misdiagnosis.  He never was ADD, he is 
bipolar and the speed drug was the wrong thing to put him on.  His 
point though was that many folks wind up in such a spot.
Yes he does take meds for the bipolar condition - depacote and has 
been able to teach high school french.

Marta
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Marta Russell
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