Recent News/Highlighted Items

• 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.
• PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth
  • Model Complaint
  • Medically Accepted Indications Chart
• 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
• Psychotropic Drug Abuse in Foster Care Costs Government Billions, by David Sessions, Politics Daily, June 16, 2010.
• Psychiatric drugs linked to host of deadly side effects: Depression diagnosis often start of grab bag of health issues, by Sharon Kirkey, The Edmonton Journal, June 15, 2010.
• Questionable Antipsychotic Prescribing Remains Common, Despite Serious Risks, Bridget M. Kuehn, Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 303, No. 16 1582-1584 (2010)
• Psychiatric Fads and Overdiagnosis, by Allen Frances, MD, Psychology Today, June 2, 2010.
• Tracking the American Epidemic of Mental Illness - Part III, by Evelyn Pringle, OpEdNews, June 7, 2010.
• Tracking the American Epidemic of Mental Illness - Part II, by Evelyn Pringle, OpEdNews, June 2, 2010.
• Medicating Children: A “Whistleblower’s” Lawsuit Raises a Novel Legal Question, by Robert Whitaker, Mad in America blog, Psychology Today, June 2, 2010
• Curbing Drug-Company Abuses: Are Fines Enough? By Ken Stier, Time Magazine, May 30, 2010.
• Summing Up the NIMH Trials: Evidence of an Effective Paradigm of Care? By Robert Whitaker, Mad in America blog, Psychology Today, May 28, 2010.
• Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, by By Irwin Feinberg, MD, Psychiatric Times, May 27, 2010.
• Yet Another Disappointment: First CATIE, and Now the 12-Month Results from TEOSS, by Robert Whitaker, Mad in America blog, Psychology Today, May 25, 2010.
• Psychiatric Drugs and Poor Kids, by Bruce E. Levine, The Huffington Post, May 20, 2010.
• Another PsychRights Medicaid Fraud Case Unsealed, May 18, 2010.
• Foster Children Mistreated, Suit Against City Claims, by A.G. Sulzberger, The New York Times, May 12, 2010.
• State of Utah Complaint Against Manufacturers of Risperdal and Seroquel, May 3, 2010.
• So much bluster, but foster kids' drug nightmare continues, by Fred Grimm, The Miami Herald, May 1, 2010.
• AstraZeneca Pays $520 Million to Settle Seroquel Whisteleblower Claims, April 28, 2010.
  • Pharmaceutical Company AstraZeneca to Pay $520 Million for Off-Label Drug Marketing, U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, April 27, 2010
  • Settlement Agreement
  • Corporate Integrity Agreement
• 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.
• Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, by Robert Whitaker, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 7, Number I: 23-35 Spring 2005.
• Jim Gottstein Legal Defense Fund
• MindFreedom Shield Program
• Allen Jones' Full Whistle-Blower Report on Drug Company influence on states' drug purchases.