Recent News/Highlighted Items

• PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth
  • Model Complaint
  • Medically Accepted Indications Chart
• United States ex rel Law Project for Psychiatric Rights v. Matsutani, et al., USDCAK Case No. 3:09-cv-80-TMB
  • Audio of Oral Argument, October 12, 2011.
  • Trial Judge Tosses Medicaid Fraud Cases Because Government Officials Are Allowing the Fraud to Continue, September 25, 2010
  • Massive Medicaid Fraud Lawsuit Unsealed, January 25, 2010.
  • Lawyer takes on psychiatric industry for over-prescribing foster children, by Rhonda McBride, KTUU, February 11, 2010.
• 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.
• Jim Gottstein's 2011 NARPA PowerPoint Presentation on "PsychRights' Litigation Against the Psychiatric Drugging of Poor Children & Youth."
• Forced Drugging Defense Package  (4.5 Megabytes)
  • Microsoft Word version of pleadings
• The "clickable" Whitaker Affidavit
• Dr. Grace E. Jackson Affidavit, including brain damage
• Opinion: Ritalin Gone Wrong, by L. Alan Sroufe, The New York Times, January 28, 2012.
• U.S. to Force Drug Firms to Report Money Paid to Doctors, by Robert Pear, The New York Times, January 16, 2012.
• State attorney general sues drug company --Abbott: state paid excessively to Johnson & Johnson for Risperdal, by Tim Eaton, American Statesment, January 8,2012.
• False Claims, Off-Label Prescribing & Doctors, by Ed Silverman, Pharmalot, December 21, 2011.
• Down the Hatch: The Texas Attorney General's Office says a drugmaker lied in order to push an antipsychotic on foster children. So why are kids as young as three still taking the drug? By Craig Malisow published, December 15, 2011.
• Oregon sees drop in the number of foster kids who get psychiatric drug prescriptions, by Michelle Cole, The Oregonian, December 07, 2011
• Letter to Senator Carper regarding hearing on The Financial And Societal Costs Of Medicating America’s Foster Children, December 2, 2011
• Briefing Paper: The Financial And Societal Costs Of Medicating America’s Foster Children: A Proposed Solution: Enforcement of Medicaid's Restriction of Covered Outpatient Drugs to Medically Accepted Indications, to Sen. Mark Begich, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, December 12, 2011.
• Video: United States Senate Hearing on The Financial And Societal Costs Of Medicating America’s Foster Children, in the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, December 1, 2011.
  • Written Testimony of the Government Accountability Office (GAO)  Before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate "HHS Guidance Could Help States Improve Oversight of Psychotropic Prescriptions," December 1, 2011.
• Video:  20/20 Overmedication in Foster Care, December 2, 2011.
• Video:  ABC NEWS -- December 1, 2011 -- Psychiatrists Put Kids at Risk With Mind-Altering Drugs
• Video: ABC NEWS -- November 30, 2011 - Psych Drugs - Kids
• New Study Shows U.S. Government Fails to Oversee Treatment of Foster Children With Mind-Altering Drugs, Diane Sawyer, ABC News, November 30, 2011.
  • Video: Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management hearing on The Financial And Societal Costs Of Medicating America’s Foster Children
  • Letter to U.S. Senator Begich on The Financial And Societal Costs Of Medicating America’s Foster Children, December 1, 2011
• Unsealed or Otherwise Formerly Confidential Documents
• 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.
• Jim Gottstein Legal Defense Fund
• MindFreedom Shield Program
• Allen Jones' Full Whistle-Blower Report on Drug Company influence on states' drug purchases.

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