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Few
people receive more support or access to more resources than a first
round draft pick in the National Football League, such as Dimitrius
Underwood. |
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Safe
Harbor will establish the Annual Margot Kidder Award to honor
courageous men and women who have advanced the use of safe, sensible,
and effective alternative mental health treatments. |
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On
the anniversary of Martin Luther King's cherished 'I
Have a Dream' speech, mental health advocates came together in New York. |
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New
Orleans Saints running back Ricky Williams speaks out
on public anxiety disorder. |
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John Battaglia was sentenced to
death for the murder of his children, despite his plea
that bipolar disorder contributed to the crime. |
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William
Stothers spends most days fighting to ensure that his
fellow members of the disability community are able to
live independent lives. (July 27, 2001) |
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In
the June issue of Nature Medicine there is a story of
British Psychiatrist David Healy who accepted a joint
faculty position at the Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Canada, and the Department of
Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, only to have the
roles declined to him on the basis of a single lecture he
presented weeks later. |
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Letter
from Dr. David Healy to the Ethics committee of the
CAMH regarding their withdrawal of his job offer. |
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Internet
Radio - check out the Don and Carla
Network. This 24 hour a day web radio station
covered last weekend's Russell Tribunal on Human Rights
in Psychiatry in Berlin. |
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A physics prodigy who suffers from manic depression has triumphed over two
psychiatrists in a long-running court battle over their right to treat him
with mood-altering drugs. |
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Psychiatrist
Loren Mosher & David Oaks Speak on Advocacy - Mad Pride, The
Movement for Human Rights and Alternatives in the "Mental Health
System" hosted a panel in San Francisco on January 5, 2001.
In it, Dr. Loren Mosher spoke on Biopsychiatric Ideology as an
Impediment to Recovery, and David Oaks, spoke of the movement to Resist
the Rise of Forced Psychiatry. (Jan. 2001) |
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John
McSweeney Resigns from NAMI-SCC - The board genuinely appreciates the
many, many hours of volunteer work that John McSweeney has contributed to
the Mental Health Community. We are in need of people to fill his absence.
(Dec., 2000) |
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Nobel Prize in
Medicine - Three
scientists, Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel shared the 2000 Nobel Price for Medicine. (Oct.,
2000) |
