Word: mentalism
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...drug first became a problem in Tazewell in 1998, but its national reach is well known, ensnaring even radio impresario Rush Limbaugh in a scandal that sent him into rehab. Around the nation, the statistics tell the story. A Jan. 21, 2005, report from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that the number of people who had used oxycodone, the main ingredient in OxyContin, for nonmedical reasons jumped from 11.8 million in 2002 to 13.7 million in 2003. The increase happened even though OxyContin's maker stopped distributing its strongest pill, the 160-mg tablet...
Military interrogators often have to play mind games with their Iraqi and Afghan prisoners in an effort to extract information. But how far should mental-health experts go in helping play those games? A report on detainee abuse, delivered to Congress on March 7 by Vice Admiral Albert Church, noted that there is "a growing trend in the global war on terror" for military psychiatrists and psychologists to take part in interrogations. Now some mental-health professionals, even within the military, are growing concerned that colleagues who have helped interrogators may have broken the first rule of medical ethics...
...Army Surgeon General is investigating whether some doctors helped direct what amounts to psychological torture. Though no evidence has surfaced that mental-health professionals sanctioned the beatings and sexual humiliation that guards at Abu Ghraib are accused of inflicting, Army investigators did find that military-intelligence officers at the prison had psychiatrists review their "interrogation plans" for Iraqi detainees. If any mental-health professionals supervised such pressure tactics as sleep deprivation or the use of military dogs to threaten prisoners during interrogations, that would cross an ethical line, says an Army psychiatrist. "We should not be using our abilities...
...other nations organize their economics and politics, but will welcome into the international system those who have their own sense of tradition, history, and the natural order of the world, even if this is very different from that of the U.S. The danger is that Americans will be mental prisoners of their benign intentions, convinced of the innate superiority of their own institutions and beliefs, and unable to see that their own dominance is as likely to breed resentment as admiration. It is time that the U.S. became more aware of this risk...
...several interesting paragraphs in “Summers Garners Applause At Mather” (News, Mar. 16), in which University President Lawrence H. Summers is reported to offer special benefits to faculty but makes no mention of the concomitant needs of Harvard workers. Apparently, it is quite beyond his mental horizon that Harvard workers, not just highly favored and sought-after faculty members, face family-related pressures, too. Like faculty, they juggle family responsibilities, need daycare, need flexible work arrangements, need to cover tuition costs for their college-aged kids, and most certainly could use interest-free loans...