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Tom Harkin: Are we putting too many eggs in the basket of finding a drug that masks, that perhaps gets someone through a tough time…

On the recordMarch 19, 2007
Are we putting too many eggs in the basket of finding a drug that masks, that perhaps gets someone through a tough time to respond to the immediacy of a mental illness?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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congress.gov
Mar 19, 2007

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Questioning the focus on drug treatments for mental illness.

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