Category Archives: Big Muddy River Newsletter

Jim Gottstein is a lawyer in Alaska and is the founder of the organization PsychRights,  the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (http://psychrights.org/) which has been around about 25 years, working to bring the mental illness system around to a culture … Continue reading →

Mental Health Parity Bill Founded on Pseudoscience Insurers May be Required to Cover Drugs and Hospitalization for “Internet Addiction” If the Mental Health Parity Bill, H.R. 1424, passes the U.S. Senate as it did on March 5 in the House … Continue reading →

Bringing Total to 54 Dead and 105 Wounded in Recent Drug-Induced School/Teen Shootings MARCH 14:  Illinois police have confirmed that toxicology results show Illinois gunman Steven Kazmierczak had antidepressants in his system during his school shooting rampage—when he shot and … Continue reading →

54 Dead and 105 Wounded in Recent Teen and School Shootings SAINT LOUIS: On February 14, Illinois gunman Steven Kazmierczak became the 12th shooter in the past decade under the influence of psychiatric drugs documented by international drug regulatory agencies … Continue reading →

Report on Psychotropic Drug Crimes Launched on Online Tracking Database  SAINT LOUIS: Two U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration investigations into doctors who prescribed cocktails of drugs, including tranquilizers and painkillers, leading to patient deaths, have prompted a new report released today … Continue reading →

Fuels Demands for Prohibiting Funds to Child Psychiatric Services and Deadly Drugs SAINT LOUIS: A New York appeals court decision last week found that psychiatrists were wrong for force-feeding potentially lethal psychiatric drugs to a 14-year-old girl against her parents’ … Continue reading →

People in desperate circumstances must be provided proper and effective medical care. Medical, not psychiatric, attention, good nutrition, a healthy, safe environment and activity that promotes confidence will do far more than the brutality of psychiatry’s “treatments.” The following quotes from … Continue reading →

But in U.S., Legislation May Result In More New Mothers Prescribed these Dangerous Drugs SAINT LOUIS: Due to innovative patient safety legislation in Sweden passed in 2005, expanding the information available in the country’s Medical Drugs Registry, researchers were able … Continue reading →

US Falling Behind Britain in Addressing this Harmful Practice SAINT LOUIS: With more than 25% of US seniors in the Medicare program being prescribed antipsychotic drugs documented to increase the risk of death, diabetes and weight gain, the mental health … Continue reading →

SAINT LOUIS: After decades of warning the public that vested interests were burying psychiatric drug risks, vehemently denied by the psychiatric/pharmaceutical industries, the mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) says new research published Jan 17 in the … Continue reading →