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Happy Joy Smile

Drawn from real-life experiences, this short story depicts a character negotiating the UK’s current mental health system. Discover what happens as they encounter waiting lists, sketchy healthcare and punitive government bureaucracy.

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Hysteria

Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.

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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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Identifying skin lightening agents in cosmetics

Could your moisturiser be damaging your health? If it contains skin-lightening agents, the answer is yes. But this is an area where consumers definitely do not have the upper hand.

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  • Leaflets about feeding childres
  • Children's Minimum Council leaflets
  • Cooper's Sinapine Tissue (mustard leaflets).
  • Cooper's Sinapine Tissue (mustard leaflets).
  • Cooper's Sinapine Tissue (mustard leaflets).
  • The Terrence Higgins Trust drug leaflets.
  • Leaves and single leaflets of a plant, possibly a Cassia species. Watercolour.
  • A man narrating his experiences in public, while his wife hands out leaflets. Etching.
  • Three new leaflets from Brook promote the double Dutch method of safer sex / Brook Advisory Centres.
  • Three new leaflets from Brook promote the double Dutch method of safer sex / Brook Advisory Centres.
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