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The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) is a non-profit, tax exempt 501(c)(3) public interest law firm whose mission is to mount a strategic legal campaign against forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock in the United States akin to what Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP mounted in the 40's and 50's on behalf of African American civil rights. The public mental health system is creating a huge class of chronic mental patients through forcing them to take ineffective, yet extremely harmful drugs.

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Currently, due to massive growth in psychiatric drugging of children and youth and the current targeting of them for even more psychiatric drugging, PsychRights has made attacking this problem a priority. Children are virtually always forced to take these drugs because it is the adults in their lives who are making the decision. This is an unfolding national tragedy of immense proportions. As part of its mission, PsychRights is further dedicated to exposing the truth about these drugs and the courts being misled into ordering people to be drugged and subjected to other brain and body damaging interventions against their will.

PsychRights' Medicaid Fraud Initiative Against Psychiatric Drugging of Children & Youth

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

Medicaid Fraud Defendants Seek Almost $325,000 in Legal Fees and Costs After Court Dismissed Case Because PsychRights is Not In It for The Money, October 15, 2010.
Trial Judge Tosses Medicaid Fraud Cases Because Government Officials Are Allowing the Fraud to Continue, September 25, 2010
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.

Alaska Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal of PsychRights v. Alaska, October 1, 2010.

Dr. Grace E. Jackson Affidavit, including brain damage
Letter to U.S. Senator Carper on Pediatric Psychopharmacology Medicaid Fraud, November 9, 2010.
Ex-Glaxo Executive Is Charged in Drug Fraud, by Duff Wilson, The New York Times, November 9, 2010.
Firm with Earth City unit [Forest Labs] is settling suits over drugs tied to suicides, by Jim Doyle, St. Louis Today, October 30, 2010.
Letter from Sen. Charles Grassley to Secretary of Health & Human Services Sebelius regarding prolific Medicaid prescribers, October 20, 2010.
Another Volley in Rx Probe, by Mar Cabra and John Dorschner, The Miami Herald, October 21, 2010.
Psychiatrists Dominate "Doctor-Dollars" Database Listing Big Pharma Payments, by Shelley Wood and Robert Lowes, Medscape Medical News, October 22, 2010.
Prescription for prestige: Drug firms speaking fees flow to Harvard doctors; concerns about influence prompt new restrictions, by Liz Kowalczyk, Boston Globe, October 19, 2010.
J&J Must Pay $257.7 Million Over Risperdal Marketing, by Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk, Bloomberg, October 14, 2010.
Why genes are leftwing; The right loves genetic explanations for poverty or mental illness. But science fingers society, by Oliver James, The Guardian, October 12, 2010.
Side Effects May Include Lawsuits, by Duff Wilson, The New York Times, October 2, 2010.
Psych Meds in Jail, Youth Today, October 1, 2010.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation to Pay $422.5 Million for off-label Drug Marketing: Company reaches plea and civil settlement agreements, United States Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, September 30, 2010.
Government orders action on 'chemical cosh' which kills thousands, London Telegraph, September 25, 2010.
Forest, Maker of Celexa, to Pay More Than $313 Million to Settle Marketing Case, by Natasha Singer, The New York Times, September 15, 2010.
Childs Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young, by Duff Wilson, The New York Times, September 1, 2010.
Unsealed or Otherwise Formerly Confidential Documents

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.

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