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	Drugmakers "Blackmail the Public"
	Debate Resumes on the Safety of Depression's Wonder Drugs
	Desire to be perfect makes treating anorexia difficult
	Change in UK diets 'Could Trigger Mental Health Crisis'
	Janssen Admits it Minimized Risk of Risperdal
	Study Backs Antidepressant-Suicide Link
	Antidepressant drug induced Suicides: Evidence of Iceberg effect
	New York State Official Sues Drug Maker Over Test Data
	How Genes Affect Moods
	Pfizer Pleads Guilty to Illegal Marketing of Neurontin
	Maker to Pull Antidepressant Serzone Off Market
	2004/Spring/NorwayTreatmentResults.pdf
	The Potential of 'Brain Pacemakers'
	Study Advises Against Drugs for Children in Depression
	Student in Antidepressant Study Commits Suicide
	Can Paxil Cause Teen Suicide?
	A Come Back for Psychosurgery?
	Prescription for Disaster
	Leading Drugs for Psychosis Come Under New Scrutiny
	PERCEIVED BENEFITS OF ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE PRACTICES
	Effect of Commonly Prescribed Medications On Speech
	FDA Asking For Adverse Drug Reaction Reports
	Mood drug Seroxat banned for under-18s
	Treating Co-occurring Disorders
	Risperdal and Zoloft Links
	FDA counsel's rise embodies US shift
	RESEARCH ON COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION FOR PEOPLE WITH PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITIES
	Zyprexa linked with Diabetes
	Risperdal Linked to Stroke
	The New Anti-Psychotic Drug Aripiprazole (ABILIFY)
	Medicaid: Too Many Drugs are Mis-Prescribed
	Antidepressant Nefazodone (Serzone) Pulled
	Medscape: Controversies in Schizophrenia Research
	New Medications in Development
	Public Response to The Secret of Seroxat
	More Kids Receiving Psychiatric Drugs
	Antidepressants for Shopaholics?
	Prescription of Antipsychotics for Sedation Rather than Treating Psychosis
	Bristol-Myers Stops Sale of Serzone in Europe
	Placebo More Effective Than Zoloft
	Implants May Reshape Schizophrenia Treatment
	RU-486 - Mifepristone: Tested for Treatment of Depression
	Serzone (Nefazodone) Risk Study
	Abort Disabled: Says one Geneticist
	Increased Deaths in Clinical Trials
	Bristol-Myers Says Aripiprazole Is Safe for Schizophrenia
	DEA Statement on Ritalin
	FDA Issues Approvable Letter for Strattera for ADHD
	Relational Disorder - Psychiatry's Newest Category of Illness
	NAMI TESTIFIES AT SENATE HEARING ON SAMHSA REAUTHORIZATION
	NAMI Applauds Visionary Bill to Reduce Criminalization of Mental Illness.
	Legislation Would Weaken State Mental Illness Insurance Parity
	Federal Report Confirms Parents Often Give up Children to Secure Treatment for Mental Illness
	Montel Williams Show Airs Biased Portrayal of ADHD
	Medicaid Malpractice
	Thomas Insel, MD Named New Director of NIMH
	Mental Health In Troubled Times
	2002 NAMI California Conference
	Prescription for reform? Power of Drugmakers Challenged by Government, Researchers
	Controversial Bill to Stop Mandatory Mental Health Screening Fails In Congress
	CIT Training Importance
	San Diego: Special needs on the brink
	CMHS Outlines Collaboration
	2004/Summer/HousingBill.htm
	President's New Freedom Commission: Report on Housing and Homelessness
	2004/Summer/OlmsteadAssessment.htm
	Nonprofits Struggle to Finance Affordable Housing
	Bill Would Expand Mental Health Care for Older Americans
	Nationwide Mental Health Screening Proposed
	Benefits: Some Cut, Some Saved
	Health Insurance Firms Block Parity Bills
	Psychiatric Advance Directives Can Aid Mentally Ill in Crises
	Timothy's Law
	IDEA Passes U.S. Senate
	Section 8 Cuts Solution
	Change State Aid-Funded Services to Medicaid?
	Oregon Adopts Evidence-Based Treatment Requirement
	Mentally ill offenders caught in bind
	FDA Officials Concealed Data Linking Antidepressants to Suicide
	New Freedom Initiative 2004 Progress Report
	New Webcast for SAMHSA Grant Applicants
	Courts Can't Mandate Mental Care for Kids
	$4.5 Million Available for State Incentive Grants for Treatmentof Co-Occurring Substance Related and Mental Health Disorders
	SAMHSA RELEASES TRAINING MANUAL FOR DEVELOPING COMPETITIVE GRANT APPLICATIONS
	Appeals Court Strikes Down Medication Law
	Commission�s Omission
	SAMHSA RELEASES EMERGENCY PLANNING GRANTS TO 35 STATES FOR MENTAL HEALTH, SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES
	HHS Awards $23 Million in Grants for Homeless
	U.N. Approves Disability Rights Convention!
	Cooperative Agreements for Self-Help Centers
	Initiative to Fight Stigma
	$5 Million in Grants for Children's Mental Health
	$3 Million in Grants For Home Modification
	Senate Panel Approves Bill for Students With Disabilities
	Homebound Demonstration Amendment Approved
	$4.8 Million Available for Community Treatment
	$2 Million in Grants Awarded for Jail Diversion
	HHS and NCOA Issue New Resource to Improve Health of Older Adults
	MENTALLY ILL MAN MAY REFUSE TREATMENT, COURT RULES
	House Passes Legislation Improving Protections for SSI and SSDI Beneficiaries
	Conflicts of Interest in Human Subject Research
	Congress Completes Action on FY 2004 Budget Resolution; Cuts to Federal Medicaid Spending Rejected
	Governors Resist Bush Plan to Slow Costs of Medicaid
	House Passes Child Medication Safety Act
	Center for Mental Health Services Director Announced
	Texas law passed to protect school children from employees pushing psychiatry
	Supreme Court Upholds Reach of Family Leave Law
	SSA Updates SSDI and SSI Eligibility
	1.75B Program Proposed to Support Community Living
	Health-Care Reforms Face High-Court Test
	CMHS: 2002 Year in Review
	CMHS Year in Review: 2002 Regional Consumer Meetings
	Study: Most States Cut Medicaid Funding
	Hundreds protest cuts in safety net
	Oregon Seeks Federal Help For Budget
	Phase 2 - Ticket to Work Program Begins
	$2.2 MILLION AVAILABLE TO FUND TRAINING AND EVALUATION GRANTS FOR STATE EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES
	CMHS SUBCOMMITTEE ON CONSUMER/SURVIVOR ISSUES PROVIDES CONSUMER PERSPECTIVES ON MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
	SAMHSA PROPOSES CHANGE IN BLOCK GRANTS ON PERFORMANCE PARTNERSHIP PLANS
	Clozaril Approved For Treating Suicidal Behavior
	Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Disorders
	Treatment of Mentally Ill in Prisons Still Needs Improvement
	Senator Paul Wellstone
	COMMISSION REPORTS TO THE PRESIDENT: Mental Health System in Disarray
	Analysis of Proposed IDEA Paperwork Reduction
	Bush Prioritizes Judges in Campaigns
	A Court Victory
	New Yorker Wins Suit Vs. Bellevue on Forced MH Confinement
	Catholic Diocese in Canada Passes Resolution on Dangers of Anti-Depressants
	Mental Illness Defense
	Prescription for violence?
	Deaths of young people in Ontario institutions
	Psychiatric Care Showing Effects of Consolidation
	20 Priorities for the Health Care System
	Homeland Security or Eli Lilly Security Bill
	Maker of Epilepsy Drug Used Misleading Data, Plaintiff Says
	Pfizer Nears Drug Settlement
	Public Campaign to Reach Men with Depression
	Drug Companies Profile Doctor Prescribing
	NEW ITEMS ON NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH WEB SITE
	Mob boss Gigante Outwitted 34 Psychiatrists
	Court Allows Bar Admission for Lawyer with History of Schizophrenia
	Can States Limit Perscription Plans?
	Pharmaceutical Statistics - 2002
	SAMHSA PROPOSES CHANGE IN BLOCK GRANTS COMMENTS SOUGHT ON PERFORMANCE PARTNERSHIP PLANS
	Hundreds Finding Help to Combat Addiction to Prescribed Drugs
	PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS COMMON AMONG DETAINED YOUTH
	Lilly Settles Prozac Lawsuit
	National Mental Health Association Conference Scholarships
	Drugs on Campus

News

	After prison, a void
	Locked in The Box
	Asking teens about suicide thoughts
	CHILD PSYCHIATRY PUT ON NOTICE
	The Beginning of FistFree Language�
	Half of women in jail mentally ill
	Mental Health: The Profession Tests Its Limits
	Holland Court Rules ADHD not a Disease
	War in Courtroom over Paxil Drug TV Ads
	Family sues over death of detained son
	State Finds Killed Autistic Teenager Was Abused
	ZOLOFT AND DEPENDENCY
	Bombs and Speed Kill in Afghanistan
	MadinAmerica-Review
	Bush Rolls Back Rules on Privacy of Medical Data
	President Bush Commemorates ADA Anniversary
	Dangers of Paxil Withdrawal
	Glaxo Can Continue Running Paxil Ads for Now
	I WAS TOLD TO DOPE MY KID
	India's Little Helper
	Death by Perscription
	NY Times Profiles New NYC Mental Health Commissioner Sederer
	Jail Suicides Underscore National Mental Health
	Glaxo-Smith-Kline Settles Paxil Suit Out of Court
	Anti-depressants not for dogs?
	Social Services Role in Slaying Raised
	Mental Health Advocates Bar Door to Prevent Dumping People with Mental Illnesses

Internet Peer Support Research Study For People With Mental Illnesses

Study Ties Antidepressants to Suicide

Risperdal Manufacturer Admits Misleading Claims

Drug bills drain large chunk of Medicaid

'Good progress' on mental health

Medicare's Troubles May Be Sleeping Giant

New Smart Psychiatric Drugs

Doctors Say They Will Cut Antidepressant Use

Keeping Families Together Act Reintroduced

Crazy Teddy Won't be Sold Anymore

2005/Winter/CrazyTeddy_files/filelist.xml

NAMI Joins Group Launching Resources for Families On Treating Depression in Children and Adolescents

NAMI California is Moving

Congress Completes Work on Omnibus Spending Bill for FY 2005

Mental Health Field Ushers in New Generation of Leaders

Mentally Ill Youths Warehoused

NAMI Announces Multicultural Action Center During National Forum in Los Angeles

2004/Spring/CaliforniaHousingReport5-04.pdf

Analyst: Bush Plan Saves Less on Medicaid

Re-entry Issues Take Center Stage with Release of Report, Legislation

2005/Winter/RecoveryNow.htm

Field looks to emulate success of California's Prop. 63

More mentally ill teens landing in justice system

Wall Street Journal Examines HHS Secretary Nominee Leavitt's Experience with Medicaid Reform

Moving from Coercion to Collaboration in Mental Health Services

Legislation for Mental Health Directives

Acute MH Care Must Boost Crisis Diversion, Early Intervention Services

Solution to Overcrowded Jails

The Mental Health Publisher

2005/Winter/Chipmunkapublishing_files/filelist.xml

ERs Underdiagnosing Psychiatric Illness

Indiana Prison Conditions Lead to Suicide

Hunger, Homelessness Still On the Rise in Major U.S. Cities

Dealing With Depression

Missouri looks to combat suicide

Survey Finds the ADA Hasn't Improved Lives

Conference to Look at How Racism Affects Mental Health

Pills vs. Talking

Mentally Ill Overwhelm Hospital ERs

Emergency Departments See Dramatic Increase in People with Mental Illness Seeking Care

Must Read Articles on Abuse of Medicine for Commercial Gain

Legislation

	$3 Million for Jail Diversion Awarded to Ten Communities
	Status of Health Care Access in America
	Soc. Security to Get Minimal Raise
	House Criticised for Failing to Take Up Legislation Easing Access to Generic Drugs
	DNC LAUNCHES DISABILITY OUTREACH NEW WEBSITE
	Application of ADA to States Contested in Federal Courts
	Bush Proclamation of Nat'l Dis. Employment Awareness Month
	GOVERNOR DAVIS SIGNS LAURA'S LAW
	Poor Hurt by Mental Health Cuts
	California Senate Backs Forced Mental Care
	HHS announces final HIPAA privacy rule
	AAPD Joins Lawsuit Against HHS
	HHS Creates New Disability Office
	Aviation Consumer Disability Hot-line
	Dept. of Justice Has Funds for Mental Health Courts
	DNC Critiques Bush's Medicare Proposal
	Mental Health Court Funding Grants
	New Freedom Commission Subcommittee on Consumer Issues
	Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Hearing
	FY 2003 Spending Legislation for Mental Illness Research
	U.S. Plans Homeless Initiative
	Another Defeat for the ADA in Supreme Court
	Bazelon Center Applauds President's Focus on Mental Health
	Lifespan Respite Care Act of 2002
	Medicaid Managed Care Programs
	Mental Health Parity Not Costly
	Mental Health Parity Likely
	President Bush Names Appointments to White House Commission on Mental Health
	Psychiatric expert witnesses
	Senate Holds Hearing On IDEA - April, 2002
	Social Security Claims Backlogged
	Supreme Court Narrows Disability Law
	Vermont Takes Aim at Drug Companies

Criminal Justice and Mental Health Consensus Project

	In California's county jails, suicides are up sharply
	Iowa Prison Very Slow in Addressing Mental Health Issues

Depressed? What Makes You Ask?

	Drug Cocktails Out of Hand
	Dr. David Healy Settles Lawsuit With University of Toronto
	Free Prozac in the Mail!
	No Miracle Drug for Depression
	Psychotropic Drugs Over-prescribed in the West
	Social factors 'cause ethnic schizophrenia'
	SSRI Warnings
	Valium Addict Wins Legal Suit
	Virtual reality aid for schizophrenia

NAMI Condemns CBS's 60 Minutes for Sound Bite Journalism

	NAMI California Election
	Consumers Protest E. Fuller Torrey's Invitation to Speak at the NAMI National Conference
	Treatment Advocacy Center Retraction
	Dairy Ad Reference to Schizophrenia Altered after Public Outcry
	Hollywood Stigma Buster
	NAMI Announces Global Partnership Initiative