Highlighted Items

• Contract Research Organisations: Truly independent research? by Jeanne Lenzer, medical investigative journalist, British Medical Journal, August 18, 2008.
• The incidence and prevalence of diabetes in patients with serious mental illness in North West Wales: Two cohorts, 1875–1924 & 1994–2006 compared, by Joanna Le Noury, Afshan Khan, Margaret Harris, Winnie Wong, Dawn Williams, Tony Roberts, Richard Tranter and David Healy, BioMed Central, August 7, 2008.
• PsychRights' Launches Pro Bono Recruitment Effort with MindFreedom's Ann L Human Rights Alert, August 18, 2008.
• Unsealed documents  from Alaska v. Lilly, the Alaska Supreme Court allowed to be open to the public on July 29th, in Eli Lilly v. Bloomberg News.
• 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).
• The "clickable" Whitaker Affidavit
• Dr. Grace E. Jackson Affidavit
• PsychRights To New York Medical Examiner: Did Psychiatric Drugs Cause Esmin Green's Fatal Blood Clot?  August 14, 2008.
  • Response by Office of Chief Medical Officer Attorney, August 21, 2008.
• Jim Gottstein Legal Defense Fund
• Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties, by Benedict Carey and Gardiner Harriss, New York Times, July 12, 2008.
• Forced Drugging of Bill Bigley
  • One Drug, Two Faces, New York Times, March 25, 2008.
• The Zyprexa Papers Scandal
• 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
• 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.
• MindFreedom Shield Program
• Allen Jones' Full Whistle-Blower Report on Drug Company influence on states' drug purchases.