Psychiatric Drugs: An Assault on the Human Condition
Street Spirit Interview with Robert Whitaker
Interview by Terry Messman
Investigative reporter Robert Whitaker, author of the groundbreaking book Mad
Street Spirit
Mad In America: An Indictment of Psychiatric Abuse and Brain Damage
One lone author bears moral witness to the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people abused, tortured and damaged by the psychiatric establishment.
Zyprexa: A Prescription for Diabetes, Disease and Early Death
On June 8, 2005, Eli Lilly & Co. announced that it had agreed to pay $690 million to settle some 8,000 lawsuits filed by people who reported that taking the antipsychotic drug Zyprexa resulted in unwanted weight gain, diabetes, other metabolic diseases, and death.
The Legal Rights of Homeless People in Berkeley
by Karla James
Berkeley Copwatch, with the assistance of Osha Neumann
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Speaking Out For Those Who Have Been Silenced by the Psychiatric Profession
By Leah Harris on “You are exposed, you psychiatrists of the APA. We know that psychiatry has long ago lost whatever conscience it may have possessed. We know that you are snug in bed with the drug companies, that you couldn’t even exist as a professional association without drug company funding.” -- Leah Harris
Drug Companies Turn ‘Informed Consent’ into a Sham
By Kathie Zatkin on When will physicians, HMOs and elected officials take the following pledge? “I pledge to accept no money, gifts or hospitality from the pharmaceutical industry; to seek unbiased sources and not rely on information disseminated by drug companies, and to avoid conflict of interest in my practice, teaching and/or research.”
Nonprofit Execs Get Rich Off Homelessness
By T.J. Johnston, MaryAnne Greb, Adrian Varnedoe, Michael Morgan, and Delfine Brody on San Francisco spends tens of millions of tax dollars on high salaries at large charities, yet it builds very little housing for homeless people. The vast majority of money pumped into nonprofits goes not to food, shelter or housing for homeless people, but to the salaries of managers and directors.
East Bay Hospital Is Closed for Good
By Terry Messman on The undeserved suffering of poor and homeless mental-health clients galvanized us to shut down East Bay Hospital so this anguish would never visit another family. This negligent psychiatric hospital had crammed disabled clients into shamefully overloaded wards in pursuit of higher profits. Now those once-crowded wards have been closed forever.
One Death Too Many at East Bay Hospital
By Terry Messman on Marc Kiefer was found dead in a locked isolation unit at East Bay Hospital after enduring nearly 18 torturous hours of physical shackles and shocking medical negligence. Kiefer was left dead in restraints for hours while East Bay Hospital’s negligent staff ignored him in death as they had in life.