Recent News/Highlighted Items

• Forced Drugging Defense Package  (4.5 Megabytes)
  • Microsoft Word version of pleadings
• The "clickable" Whitaker Affidavit
• Dr. Grace E. Jackson Affidavit, including brian damage
• Anti-Anxiety Drugs Raise New Fears, by Katie Balestra, The Washington Post, June 30, 2009.
• Law Project for Psychiatric Rights v. State of Alaska, et al. Case No. 3AN 08-10115 CI, a lawsuit to stop the massive over-drugging of Alaska's children & youth.
  • PsychRights Appeals Dismissal of Lawsuit Against State Over Harmful Psychiatric Drugging of Alaskan Children & Youth, June 30, 2009.
• Massive Medicaid Fraud Exposed: PsychRights Calls on Members of Congress for Assistance, May 5, 2009.
  • May 5, 2009, letters to Senators Charles Grassley and Herb Kohl, and Representatives Henry Waxman, Bart Stupak, John Dingell & Barney Frank
• Sudden Death and Use of Stimulant Medications in Youths, by  Madelyn S. Gould, Ph.D., M.P.H.; B. Timothy Walsh, M.D.; Jimmie Lou Munfakh, B.A.; Marjorie Kleinman, M.S.; Naihua Duan, Ph.D.; Mark Olfson, M.D., M.P.H.; Laurence Greenhill, M.D.; and Thomas Cooper, M.A., American Journal of Psychiatry (2009).
• Foster Care Failures, St. Petersburg Times Editorial, June 7, 2009.
• Unsealed or Otherwise Formerly Confidential Documents
  • Risperdal
  • Seroquel
    • Unsealed May 20, 2009
      • Document Description Tables
  • Zyprexa (from Alaska v. Lilly)
• When Drug Trials Go Terribly Wrong: Lessons from a Bereaved Mother, Psychology Today Blog, June 8, 2009.
• Forced Drugging of Bill Bigley
  • One Drug, Two Faces, New York Times, March 25, 2008.
• The Zyprexa Papers Scandal
• Involuntary Commitment and Forced Psychiatric Drugging in the Trial Courts: Rights Violations as a Matter of Course, by James B. (Jim) Gottstein, 25 Alaska L. Rev.  51 (2008).
• How the Legal System Can Help Create a Recovery Culture in Mental Health Systems, presented at Alternatives 2005: Leading the Transformation to Recovery, Phoenix, Arizona, October 28, 2005.
• Report on Multi-Faceted Grass-Roots Efforts To Bring About Meaningful Change To Alaska's Mental Health Program
• Bigley v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute, S-13116, Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 6374, May 22, 2009.
• Wetherhorn v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute, Opinion No. 6091, ruling Alaska's gravely disabled criteria unconstitutional (requiring the state prove the person unable to survive safely in freedom).
• Myers v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute, Opinion No. 6021, June 30, 2006, ruling Alaska's forced psychiatric drugging regime unconstitutional.
• Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, by Robert Whitaker, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 7, Number I: 23-35 Spring 2005.
• Jim Gottstein Legal Defense Fund
• MindFreedom Shield Program
• Allen Jones' Full Whistle-Blower Report on Drug Company influence on states' drug purchases.