Virginia's Economic Incentives: Missed Opportunities for Sustainable Growth

This article describes Virginia 's current business incentive programs and analyzes whether land use patterns and long-term development effects are considered when providing grant and loan awards. It finds that Virginia does not consider the impact of its economic incentive programs on land use patterns and sustainability. Furthermore, the information publicly available on these programs does not contain sufficient detail on the use of the funds to assess their effect on growth and land use patterns. The article recommends that Virginia consider land use impacts in administering current economic incentive programs by funding growth in locations that are designed to maximize benefits to the surrounding communities. Linda Breggin wrote a larger report, "Virginia Economic Incentives: Missed Opportunities for Sustainable Growth" on which this article is based, for the Environmental Law Institute in 2001

Comment on Osler et al : misinterpretation of pre‐post‐differences invalidate the authors’ conclusions

This is the peer reviewed version which has been published in final form at 10.1111/acps.13110. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.Osler and colleagues published a cohort study investigating antidepressant medication and suicidal behaviour and violent crime in patients and conscripts. They report an increased incidence rate for both events before and after treatment initiation when compared to the follow‐up period. They conclude that there is likely no causal effect of antidepressants on either of the two endpoints, because the rates between treated and untreated individuals did not differ substantially at each time‐point and the rates of both events did not increase in the antidepressant group after treatment initiation as compared to the pre‐treatment time period

Diminished: Canadian women's experiences of electroshock

Sherpa Romeo ungraded journal. Open access article. Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported LIcense (CC BY-ND 3.0)“Diminished” is the result of a two-year feminist inquiry into the gendered experience of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Canada. This paper focuses on seven women’s experiences with electroshock and how it affected their lives. It raises pressing questions for Canadian feminists about the apparent dispensability of women’s minds, with the purpose being to re-ignite feminist interest in women’s experiences of psychiatry in general and the damaging effects of electroshock in particularYe

Do antidepressants cure or create abnormal brain states?

Moncrieff and Cohen argue that psychotropic drugs create abnormal states that may co-incidentally relieve symptoms of mental illness