Recent News/Highlighted Items

• PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth
  • Model Complaint
  • Medically Accepted Indications Chart
  • Illinois Medicaid Fraud Case Using PsychRights' Model Complaint Unsealed, August 11, 2010
• United States ex rel Law Project for Psychiatric Rights v. Matsutani, et al., USDCAK Case No. 3:09-cv-80-TMB
  • Massive Medicaid Fraud Lawsuit Unsealed, January 25, 2010.
  • Lawyer takes on psychiatric industry for over-prescribing foster children, by Rhonda McBride, KTUU, February 11, 2010.
• Law Project for Psychiatric Rights v. State of Alaska, et al. Case No. 3AN 08-10115 CI, a lawsuit to stop the massive over-drugging of Alaska's children & youth.
• Forced Drugging Defense Package  (4.5 Megabytes)
  • Microsoft Word version of pleadings
• The "clickable" Whitaker Affidavit
• Dr. Grace E. Jackson Affidavit, including brain damage
• Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young, by Duff Wilson, The New York Times, September 1, 2010.
• The STAR*D Scandal: A New Paper Sums It All Up, by Robert Whitaker, Psychology Today, August 27, 2010.
• Making a Killing: Clinical Trials Have Become Marketing Exercises for Big Pharma-and cash-strapped universites are helping make the sale.  Too bad for Dan Markingson, by Carl Elliot, Mother Jones, September/October 2010.
• Letter to Senators Kerry and Lugar supporting the ratifiction of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), August 16, 2010.
• Charlie Rose and the Mentally Ill, by Robert Whitaker, Psychology Today, August 13, 2010.
• Zyprexa Document Leaker Loses His Appeal, by Ed Silverman, Pharmalot, August 13, 2010
  • Statement of Jim Gottstein Regarding 2nd Circuit Decision on the Zyprexa Papers, August 12, 2010
• FDA Drug Safety Communication: Aseptic meningitis associated with use of Lamictal (lamotrigine), August 12, 2010.
• New Jersey Is Sued Over the Forced Medication of Patients at Psychiatric Hospitals, by Richard Pérez-Peña, The New York Times, August 3, 2010.
  • Complaint in Disability Rights New Jersey v. Velez, August 3, 2010
• Why antidepressants are simply a confidence trick: A leading psychologist claims taking sugar pills would work just as well, by Prof. Irving Kirsch, The Daily Mail, August 3, 2010.
• Commentary: Ghostwriting and Academic Medicine, by Jonathan Leo and JeffreyLacasse, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 19, 2010.
• Ghostwriting in Medical Literature, Minority Staff Report, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Sen. Charles Grassley, Ranking Member, June 24, 2010.
• Studies Halted at Brain Lab Over Impure Injections, by Benedict Carey, The New York Times, by Benedict Carey, July 16,2010.
• Letter to Governor Chris Gregoire and Jess Jamieson, CEO of Western State Hospital to free Emily Daguzhyte, July 1, 2010.
• Commentary: We must stop treating childhood like a disease, by Jacob Azerrad, The Patriot Ledger, July 12, 2010.
• Sara Carlin, Paxil And Drug Safety In Canada, by Ed Silverman, Pharmalot, June 30,2010.
• Psychotropic Drug Abuse in Foster Care Costs Government Billions, by David Sessions, Politics Daily, June 16, 2010.
• Unsealed or Otherwise Formerly Confidential Documents
• Forced Drugging of Bill Bigley
  • One Drug, Two Faces, New York Times, March 25, 2008.
• The Zyprexa Papers Scandal
• 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).
• 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
• Bigley v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute, S-13116, Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 6374, May 22, 2009.
• 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.
• Jim Gottstein Legal Defense Fund
• MindFreedom Shield Program
• Allen Jones' Full Whistle-Blower Report on Drug Company influence on states' drug purchases.