California

• University of California Student Association Resolution in Support of NoCARECourts Coalition and Statement of Action, February 2023.
• M.F. v Social Security Administration, Case No. No. C 20-08742, United States District Court, District of Northern, California, Order Re: Cross Motions for Summary Judgment, November 22, 2021.  Court Decision that Failure to take psych drugs did not necessarily disqualify person from Social Security Disability benefits.
• Southern California Against Forced Treatment.
• California Overmedicates Prisoners with Psychotropic Drugs, Prison Legal News, March 7, 2016.
• An Analysis Of Death Certificates Obtained From California Department Of State Hospitals (DSH): Prisoners Who Died In Custody At State Mental Hospitals Between January 1, 2005 and August 1, 2015, a Study By Families For The Ethical Psychiatric Treatment Of Patients And Prisoners (FEPTOPP) October 31, 2015.
• May 3, 2013, Complaint in Marcus Class Action Against Forest Labs about pediatric use of Lexapro.
• Eliminating the Use of Psychotropic Medication in the Treatment of Children with Profound Emotional and Behavioral Issues, the Seneca Program.
• Surf City Anxiety Healing.
• Civil Minutes Order Denying Motion to Dismiss by Sandoz and Eli Lilly on the grounds that the FDA would not have allowed a warning concerning Prozac’s suicide risks and that a generic manufacturer is not allowed to voluntarily revise its warning label, in Dorsett v. Sandoz, Inc., et al., Case No. CV 06-7821,  (C.D.Cal., March 26, 2010).
• Psychiatric Care's Peril and Profits: Lapses at Psychiatric Solutions Inc., a major hospital chain with high earnings, have put patients at risk, regulators find. Some have even died, by Christina Jewett and Robin Fields, Los Angeles Times, November 23, 2008.
• United States Department of Justice Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, action against California
  • May 2, 2006, US Dept. of Justice letter to Governor Scharzenegger about civil rights violations at Patton State Hospital.
  • May, 2006, Consent Decree.
  • February 19, 2004, United States Department of Justice letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger re: Metropolitan State Hospital.
• Officials Bicker as Mentally Ill Wither, Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2005.
• Psychiatric Polypharmacy: A Word of Caution. Report from PAI, Inc, of California.
• CARES (Coalition Advocating for Rights Empowerment and Services) Statement against involuntary "treatment."
• David Oaks' April 9, 2005 e-mail to the California Department of Mental Health regarding its  betrayal in first gaining mental health consumers' support for Proposition 63 by promising it would not be used for forced psychiatry and then turning around and reneging by proposing large increases in funds for forced psychiatry.
• California Court bans electroshock at Santa Barbara College Hospital on January 5, 2005 in Akkerman v. Johnson.
•  The Wayne Morin Jr Tapes-The Exposure of the Horrors at Napa State Hospital
• LPS (Commitment Law) Guidelines for Santa Clara County goes over California commitment laws.
• California Network of Mental Health Clients
• Psychoanlysis Los Angeles California Extension (PLACE)  maintains a non-medical clinic which is modeled on those currently operating in France: it provides for the effectivity of a psychoanalytic intervention which goes beyond the traditional conception of the psychotherapeutic talking-cure without relying on the use of psycho-pharmacological treatments.
• Let's Talk Hotline, "for referrals to non-labeling, non-intrusive counselors and clergy. Get help addressing the underlying problems, not just the symptoms." 
• Protection and Advocacy, Inc.
  • Advance Directives
• mentalhospitalabuse.org (Advocating for mental patient's treatment and rights) deals a lot with abuses at Fremont Hospital and Ardent Health Services

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