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Contents:
- Abuses Alleged in S. Korea's
Now-Banned Sterilization of Mentally Ill Birth control:
Official says 175 procedures were performed before law was repealed.
Reaction is muted.
Albany Accord on
Confining of Mentally Ill By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
American Civil Liberties
Union Freedom Network
Bed shortage sends mentally ill to
jail Patients' psychiatric assessment can take a month, lawyers say
By Tracey Tyler Toronto Star Legal Affairs Reporter July 08, 1999
- Beyond Forced Psychiatry:
The Rights to Refuse and Explore Alternatives By
Jonah Paisner - May 1999
Bill raises risk of
violating medical privacy, physicians' groups say
12.11 a.m. ET (412
GMT) July 22, 1999
Campaign for the
Rights of Virginians with Disabilities Press Release July 26, 1999
Consumers seek unified
voice at mental health conference - - The Oregonian - 8/29/99
Court Takes Up Disabled Care Suit
WASHINGTON (AP) --Supreme Court justices worried aloud Wednesday that
mentally disabled people might be ``abandoned on the streets'' if an anti-bias law is
judged to give them a broad right to live in homelike settings rather than state
hospitals.
Crackdown on Schizophrenics
Is Urged After Utah Shooting The New York Times April 17, 1999 By
JAMES BROOKE SALT LAKE CITY -- For the second time in three months, this conservative city
grappled Friday with news that a schizophrenic resident who refused to take
medication had walked up to strangers and shot them dead.
Dangerous Britons To Be Detained Monday July 19 9:26 AM ET
- Death guru Stephen Levine wants to
legalize assisted suicide -- but only for physical reasons. In other situations, taking one's life is just
impatient, sloppy, a "shortcut." Salon Magazine June 2, 1997
Don't Violate the Rights of the
Mentally Ill July 23, 1999 By Sarah Thompson, M.D.
Employment Ruling Upsets
Advocates for the Disabled By ROBIN TONER and MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN
June 24, 1999 New York Times
- Forcibly Medicating
Involuntarily Committed Patients, or "Up the Rivers Without a
Paddle" by Paul F. Stavis, Counsel to the
Commission, and Penny Rubin, Assistant Counsel
Human
Rights of Psychiatric Consumer/Survivors
Presentation
by Support Coalition to the Eugene Human Rights Commission, Eugene, Oregon,
USA
Illinois man's case draws
attention to involuntary commitment issue By Charles Bosworth Jr. Of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Involuntary medication
upheld under predators law
Involuntary Outpatient
Commitment: If It Isn't Voluntary.... Maybe It Isn't Treatment
IT'S TRUE. Mental illness
really is the last great bastion of discrimination.
Lawsuit filed over injury to
patient at mental health center The Associated Press 07/16/99 1:54 PM Eastern
Lawsuit filed over injury to
patient at mental health center 07/16/99 1:39 AM Eastern
- Measure on Detaining
Mentally Ill Planned Legislature: Patients could be held
longer against their will, but also could win early release by agreeing to
follow treatment plans.
Mental health advocacy groups seek
end to federal funding for state agency Monday, July 26, 1999 By BILL
BASKERVILL Associated Press Writer
Mental health agency
should be independent
"Mentally ill or
homeless: vulnerable to police abuse"
Mentally Ill Tenant
Entitled to New Lease
Mentally ill to be
given right to vote By David Bamber, Home Affairs Correspondent
Mentally Retarded
Individuals Not Given Care Needed Publication date: 07-19-99 Associated Press
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE
DENIES INMATES HAVE RIGHTS
More and more people
forced to undergo Electric Shock Treatment
NEW RULES ON SECLUSION AND RESTRAINT Regulations
Will Protect Consumers But Should Be Stronger
Not Guilty "By
Reason of Shock Treatment and Psychiatric Drugs"
Prisoners used for
`frightening' tests, new papers show
PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
UNDERGO OSTRACISM, STIGMATIZATION AND DISCRIMINATION
R.I. in lead on rights of
patients By FELICE J. FREYER Journal Medical Writer
- SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES
DEEPLY FLAWED PATIENT PROTECTION BILL March 31, 1999
Wellstone Mental Health Amendment Rejected
State Hospital bans smoking
effective November 18
Subcommittee Approves
Bill to Block Assisted Suicide Law By Julie Rovner
SUPPORT NEEDED FOR PATIENTS' BILL
OF RIGHTS Senate Is About to Debate Managed Care Reform
The Right to Refuse
Mental Health Treatment Bruce J. Winick
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