Info Advocacy to Encourage More Openness at US Mental Health Agency, SAMHSA SAMHSA stands for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Systems Administration. SAMHSA is a US federal agency, and it is one of the largest entities in history in the mental health field. Unlike its ‘sister’ agency National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) which…
Info Document Actions Print this Author/journalist Robert Whitaker was picked to keynote at the Alternatives Conference 2010, bringing together more than 1,000 mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. His topic: Challenging mental health industry hype that inflates the benefits of psychiatric pharmaceuticals. Federal funders pressured organizers to disinvite him, but MindFreedom organized a public campaign…
The Huffington Post once more is turning their blog over to an extremist attack on the human rights of people in mental health, while not giving a voice to organizations of, by and for mental health consumers. Here’s my comment I submitted to The Huffington Post on 1 Oct. [Update 5 Oct. 2010] Update…
Author Pete Earley has spent years arguing for laws making it easier to force psychiatric drugs against us over our will, based on his belief that our mental and emotional problems are matters of chemistry. With views similar to D. J. Jaffe, it’s no surprise that Mr. Earley used his blog, too, to attack the…
Info Live from Alternatives 2010 in Anaheim, California: MindFreedom director David Oaks says more than 1,000 mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors have registered, and there’s lots of great news. But rather than cover this news, The Huffington Post is once more carrying a political attack by extremist D. J. Jaffe. You can ask The…
Info The first full day of Alternatives 2010 is over, and MindFreedom’s director David Oaks has reports some of the news, including about another political attack from the extremist promoter of more forced psychiatric drugging, D. J. Jaffe. [Updated.] To read news item about attack in The Huffington Post against Alternatives 2010, click here. …
Info Document Actions Print this In this review of journalist Robert Whitaker’s book exposing the psychiatric pharmaceutical industry, psychologist Bruce Levine mentions how MindFreedom International helped campaign to ‘re-confirm’ Whitaker as a keynote speaker at a federally-funded conference. Review: Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in…
Info Document Actions Print this The New York Times covered the way even very young children – even 18 months old – are being put on the super-powerful family of psychiatric drugs known as the neuroleptics or antipsychotics. Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young Date Published: Sep 01, 2010 12:00 AM Author:…
Info Document Actions Print this Those interested in an investigation by a journalist of psychiatric drug company research fraud are encouraged to obtain the Sept./Oct 2010 issue of Mother Jones and read the “Making a Killing” article here. Carl Elliott reveals how clinical trials and even whole universities are manipulated by the pharmaceutical industry. Making…
Inf UPDATE 5: A 31-year-old member of MindFreedom International – Geetha Rathnamala – was being held against her will in a Pittsburgh psychiatric institution, and involuntary psychiatric drugging had begun. Geetha is a registered MindFreedom Shield participant, and an alert was issued. Many members and allies helped expose the abuse going on inside the Western…