Joseph Carson Hikes to Raise Funds for MindFreedom

A longtime MindFreedom activist plans a hike through the wilderness to support MindFreedom. Help us win human rights in mental health this spring by pledging today! Joseph Carson This June, longtime human rights activist Joseph Carson is hiking to raise funds for MindFreedom International. Please show your support for a non-violent revolution in the mental…

MFI Calls for Investigations of Neuroleptic (Antipsychotic) Drugs

Info More and more mainstream media and research studies are exposing extreme hazards and human rights violations associated with the prescription of antipsychotic psychiatric drugs, which are also known as neuroleptics, without adequate advocacy, information and alternatives. MindFreedom calls for multiple investigations. One of the most common antipsychotic (or “neuroleptic”) psychiatric drugs is Zyprexa, manufactured…

Linking Zyprexa and TeenScreen Controversies

Info In this news analysis for MFI, Lloyd Ross, a psychologist and human rights activist, ties together the scandals of the way the psychiatric drug Zyprexa was marketed, with the targeting of America’s youth through unscientific mental health screening programs such as TeenScreen. Lloyd encourages you to take action today to support the youth of…

Screening

Info Screening President Bush called for making mental health “screening” of all young people “common practice.” Looking for troubled kids sounds good. But this is a mental health system without adequate advocacy, information, empowerment, and alternatives. Mental health screening marches thousands of young people to the door of a troubled mental health system. The Parental…