Info Psychiatry, Children and Young Adults Document Actions Print this The mental health industry has especially targeted young people for unfair marketing campaigns. Youth deserve the best society can offer for mental and emotional well being. Unfortunately, too often, youth are coerced to take multiple powerful psychiatric drugs without adequate information, alternatives and advocacy. News…
Info Document Actions Print this This front page NY Times article is about Mr. Milt Greek, a man diagnosed with schizophrenia who has explored his own beliefs and similar experiences and those of others. This is the latest in a series of articles by NYT journalist Benedict Cary that have been giving voice to mental…
Info Document Actions Print this The NY Times reports on a study in journal Pediatrics about massive drugging of young people in USA foster care homes, especially with so-called “antipsychotic” drugs also known as neuroleptics. Drugs Used for Psychotics Go to Youths in Foster Care Date Published: Nov 20, 2011 12:00 AM Author: Benedict Carey…
Info Long-time activist Don Weitz has composed this list of his favorite books critical of psychiatric drugs. CRITICAL AND RECOMMENDED READINGS ONPSYCHIATRIC DRUGS compiled by Don Weitz Peter Breggin. Talking Back toRitalin: What doctors aren’t telling you about stimulants forchildren. (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1998) Peter Breggin & David Cohen. YourDrug May Be Your…
Information about work by Erick Fabris to expose the practice of forced psychiatric drugging of people living in their own homes out in the community. Erick Fabris, author of book Tranquil Prisons Erick Fabris of Toronto is author of Tranquil Prisons: Chemical Incarceration Under Community Treatment Orders. Document Actions Print this
Info Here’s a sample flyer from one of the successful AMPLIFY workshops, this one in Portland, Oregon in August 2011. amplify-pdx-flyer-201108.pdf — PDF document, 971Kb Document Actions Print this
Info Document Actions Print this Justin Dart is considered the “Father of the Americans With Disabilities Act,” and was also a key bridge builder in connecting the cross-disability movement, and the psychiatric survivor/mental health consumer movement. One of his last speeches was in front of the major annual meeting of the National Council on Independent…
Info AMPLIFY began in the State of Oregon as a way to help with implementation under the Olmstead US Supreme Court decision. Here is a letter (PDF) of strong support from the State of Oregon’s mental health system to the founding funders, Bazelon Center, one of the largest mental health advocacy agencies in the USA.…
Info The AMPLIFY training unites mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, with allies, especially in the cross-disability movement. AMPLIFY has been given successfully throughout Oregon, plus in Ghana (see photo), Africa and Mexico City. Here’s how YOU can bring it to your area. Here’s your chance to bring an exciting training to your community…
Info The AMPLIFY training unites mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, with allies, especially in the cross-disability movement. AMPLIFY has been given successfully throughout Oregon, plus in Ghana (see photo), Africa and Mexico City. Here’s how YOU can bring it to your area. Here’s your chance to bring an exciting training to your community…