United Nations and Disability Rights

Info United Nations and Disability Rights MindFreedom’s team in the United Nations worked hard for years with activists from all over the world to create a treaty on disability and human rights. United Nations Disability Convention Ratified A United Nations treaty — or “convention” — on disability has been ratified by enough nations. It went…

Oregonian newspaper exposes massive psychiatric drugging of foster care kids.

Info Document Actions Print this The largest daily newspaper in Oregon published a three-part investigation of the the massive psychiatric drugging of youth in foster care in Oregon. Below is the text from the series, at bottom are links to the original articles. Oregonian newspaper exposes massive psychiatric drugging of foster care kids. Date Published:…

A plan for a national mental health consumers memorial

Info Mental health consumer Larry Fricks describes a campaign to build a USA national memorial in Washington, DC in memory of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. Part of the memorial at Central State Hospital in Georgia. Photographer: Bud Merritt October 2007 – Behavioral HealthCare Advocacy Click for original article. A PLAN FOR A NATIONAL…

MindFreedom Australia demands that Victoria’s Mental Health Act be brought into compliance with CRPD!

  This page was updated on 2/15/2021 Please support MindFreedom Australia, an affiliate of MindFreedom International, by signing this petition to modify/change the Mental Health Act in Victoria to be in alignment with the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD). The petition can be found at https://www.change.org/p/james-merlino-petition-victorian-government-to-modify-or-repeal-mental-health-act-in-line-with-the-crpd   Australians leaflet World Psychiatric…

Dr. Drug Rep

Info Document Actions Print this A psychiatrist who has taken thousands of dollars in psychiatric drug company pay-offs to present promotional speeches about their products exposes some of the techniques, and promises never to behave that way again. Dr. Drug Rep Date Published: Nov 25, 2007 01:00 AM Author: Daniel Carlat, MD Source: The New…

One year later, few new policies

Info Document Actions Print this The main newspaper for Eugene, Oregon looks back over the one year that has passed since the shooting death by police of 19 year-old Ryan Salisbury, who ran out of his home holding a knife. MindFreedom Lane County has worked on the issue for a year, and the article includes…