Update: this statistic remains true in 2016 as again featured in this MedScape article from May 3, 2016 Medical Error Is Third Leading Cause of Death in US and NPR covers it here. This is the original source: BMJ 2025 - National Library of Medicine is still saying this is true as of 2024: Medical Error Reduction and Prevention
Occasionally Beyond Meds will post a call for support or give readers a heads up about something that’s happening in the radical mental health and alternatives movement.
The Icarus Project, publisher of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, is in the running for a $25,000 grant to continue their good work. … [click on title for the rest of the post]
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at the bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are...
Paying attention can be a very difficult feat in a culture where we are taught to deny so much of our being. Finding ourselves again, though, is incredibly well worth the time and effort put into learning to do so.… [click on title for the rest of the post]
