Behavioral Drugs Focus of Debate in Colorado Schools: A resolution recently passed by the Colorado Board of Education to discourage teachers from recommending behavioral drugs like Ritalin and Luvox. (Free registration to see article)
Ca$hing In: As reports of massive insurance fraud and patient deaths and abuse in the psychiatric industry continue to mount, the push for mental health insurance parity is not what it seems. From Freedom Magazine.
Deliverance: CBC News Disclosure: The pros and cons of deliverance (modern-day exorcism) as an alternative to psychiatric treatment or medication. Includes transcript of show, video, discussion board and links to related information.
How We Lost the Culture Wars: Washington Times editorial on the erosion of morality and values by psychiatry.
Mental health parity - an opposing view: Mental health parity opens the door to fraud.
MindFreedom Journal: Publication produced by and for psychiatric survivors through the Support Coalition International. Site contains selected articles from back issues as wel as subscription information.
Neurobiological Diagnosis and Personal Responsibility: How Does Morality Fit in with AD/HD?: Ethics, religious faith and personal responsibility can be important factors in dealing with AD/HD
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Mental Illness: Article discussing whether mental illness exists, written by Christian Perring, Ph.D.
The Great Waste - Freedom Magazine: Federal investigators discovered fraud and waste to be so rampant in one segment of the health industry that today it constitutes a top Department of Justice priority.
The Online Experience: Online counseling and therapy as experienced by a researcher, with links to online counseling services.
Use and Abuse of Differential Diagnoses: Asserts that the DSM IV-R is inadequate in dealing with Axis II disorders, especially in providing useful differential diagnoses.