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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma;"> <font size="2"> <a href="http://www.narpa.org/Judi/confessions.htm">Confessions
of a non-compliant patient</a> by Judi Chamberlin</font></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><i> <a href="to_be_a_Mental_Patient.htm" target="_blank">To Be a Mental
Patient</a> </i> <br>
by Rae Unzicker</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"> The <a href="http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/index.html">Bonkers Institute</a></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Georgia" size="1">NARPA's 2011 Annual
Rights Conference<br>
Philadelphia, PA,
September 2011<br>
Conference Schedule: <br>
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<p align="left"> <i> <font face="Georgia" size="1">Materials and handouts</font><font color="#ffba75" face="Georgia" size="1">
<a href="http://www.narpa.org/2010schedule.htm">now online</a></font><font face="Georgia" size="1">
for</font><font color="#ffba75" face="Georgia" size="1">
<a href="http://www.narpa.org/2010schedule.htm">NARPA's </a> </font></i>
<font color="#ffff00" face="Georgia" style="font-size: 9pt"><span style="font-weight: 400">
<a href="http://www.narpa.org/2010schedule.htm">2010 Annual
<font color="#FFFFFF">Rights Conference</font><span style="letter-spacing: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><font color="#FFFFFF">:</font></span></span></a></span></font><font face="Georgia"><b><font style="font-size: 9pt"><br>
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<font style="font-size: 9pt">Atlanta, GA, <font face="Georgia">September</font> 2010<br>
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Beyond the Institutional Setting</span></font></span></p>
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<p align="left"> <i><font face="Georgia" size="1" color="#FFBA75">And...
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<a href="http://www.narpa.org/2009/2009%20workshop%20schedule.htm">NARPA's
2009 Annual Rights Conference</a>:</font></span><font face="Georgia" size="2"><br>
</font> </font> <span style="font-weight: 400;"> <font face="Georgia" size="1"> Phoenix, AZ, September 2009<br>
</font> </span><font color="#ffba75" face="Georgia" size="1">●</font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><font face="Georgia"><i><font style="font-size: 9.5pt;" color="#c6ff8c">Advocacy
for Rights in a New Era</font></i></font><font color="#c6ff8c" face="Georgia" size="2"><br>
</font></font><font color="#ffba75" face="Georgia" size="1">●</font><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><font style="font-size: 8.5pt;" face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.narpa.org/2009/Reforming_Guardianship_Laws.htm">Guardianship</a>/Forced
Treatment<br>
</font> </span></font> <font color="#ffba75" face="Georgia" size="1">●</font><font face="Georgia" style="font-size: 8.5pt">Recovery/Alternatives
to Medical Model Treatment</font><font style="font-size: 8.5pt;" face="Georgia" size="2"><br>
Advocacy & Legal Strategies for Challenging Times</font></p>
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<font face="NimbusSanT" color="#DFDFDF">NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
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Celebrating Our Past, Creating Our Future</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt">The Millennium Hotel</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">For 30 years, NARPA has provided an
educational conference with inspiring keynoters and outstanding
workshops. We learn from each other and come together as a community
committed to social justice for people with psychiatric labels &
developmental disabilities. </span></p>
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for the Request for Proposals</font><font color="#FFB077" size="2"><br>
Submission deadline is April 1.</font></span></font></span></p>
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pursue strategies that result in individuals with psychiatric diagnoses
making their own choices regarding treatment. We educate and mentor
those individuals to enable them to exercise their legal and human
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experienced psychiatric intervention, advocates, civil rights
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roles overlap. NARPA exists to to protect people’s right to choice
and to be free from coercion, and to promote alternatives so that the
right to choice can be meaningful. Read about NARPA's history of human
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<a href="http://www.narpa.org/chronicle.htm">Are Psychiatric Medications
Making Us Sicker?</a> - </span>
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of psychotropic drugs have proven to be of little or no benefit, and may
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Rights New Jersey</a> has filed a federal lawsuit regarding the
involuntary administration of medication to psychiatric patients in New
Jersey's public and private hospitals. The lawsuit alleges that the
current procedures, which do not provide for an independent review in
the event of a challenge to the need for involuntary medication, violate
individual rights and fail to conform to present standards of good
clinical practice.</span></span><br style="font-family: Century Gothic; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 11pt">
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<a href="http://www.narpa.org/makingakilling.htm">Making a Killing:
Clinical trials have become marketing exercises for Big Pharma --
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and read
<a href="http://www.mdri.org">Mental Disability Rights International</a>'s
full
<a href="http://www.mdri.org/PDFs/USReportandUrgentAppeal.pdf">report on the Judge Rotenberg Center</a>.
<a href="http://www.narpa.org/ABC_News-UN_Calls_Shock_Treatment_at_JRC_Torture.htm">
<i><b>Update</b></i> (May 2011):</a> Founder and director of
Massachusetts “Shock School”
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Century Gothic"> MDRI's
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the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, demanding the US end the torture of people with disabilities
immediately.</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Century Gothic"><i> </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Georgia">
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to fail. When Pfizer was caught illegally marketing a drug that was
taken off the market, the feds agreed to charge a shell company which
exists solely for the purpose of pleading guilty and taking the heat
off Pfizer. </span><font style="font-size: 11pt;">A report
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federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children
covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a
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insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the
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<font color="#DFDFDF">Remembering a
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" <strong>From Privileges to Rights:</strong> People Labeled with
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" face="Georgia">□</font><font face="Georgia"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font></b></font></font></i><font style="font-size: 11.5pt;" face="Georgia"><font style="font-size: 11.5pt;" face="Georgia"><font color="#ffffff"><b><font face="Georgia"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> FDA proposal to reclassify
electroshock machines - and deem them safe in the absence of scientific
evidence</span></font></b><font face="Georgia"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></font><i><font style="font-size: 11pt;">
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<font face="Century Gothic" color="#ffffff"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Public comments were due by January 8, 2010.
<a href="http://www.narpa.org/FDA_2009_Shock_docket.htm" style="text-decoration: none">Learn about the
FDA docket, find out how to view public comments online, and get
additional information here</a>. For background, see "<a href="http://www.narpa.org/FDA_Regulation_of_ECT_%28Shock_Treatment%29.htm" style="text-decoration: none">The
FDA’s Regulation of ECT (Shock Treatment)</a>: A Beginner (or
Refresher) Course."</span></font><b><i></p>
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<a href="http://www.narpa.org/Americanization_of_mental%20_illness.htm">
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Like Us: The Americanization of Mental Illness</a> </font></span></font></b><font color="#ffffff"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Georgia">- </font></span>
<font face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In recent
years, American ideas about psychiatric disorders have spread around
the globe. Is that really good for the world’s mental health?
<a href="http://www.narpa.org/Americanization_of_mental%20_illness.htm">Read
this article</a> by Ethan Watters from the New York Times.</span></font></font></p>
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<a href="http://www.narpa.org/Myth_of_the_Chemical_Cure.htm">Read an
essay sharply critical of the psychiatric industry, </a> </span></font></font>
</b><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Georgia"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
<a href="http://www.narpa.org/Myth_of_the_Chemical_Cure.htm">published in
the medical journal, <b>The Lancet</b>.</a> </span></font>
<font face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The article
reviews two books: <i>The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique
of Psychiatric Drug Treatment </i>by Joanna Moncrieff and <i>Side
Effects: a Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a
Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial</i> by Alison Bass. Read the
article <a href="http://www.narpa.org/Myth%20of%20the%20Chemical%A0Cure.htm">here</a>.</span></font></font></p>
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<a href="http://www.narpa.org/NYC%20doctors_nurses%20charged%20in%20death-by-neglect%20case.htm">Read the NY Daily News story</a>,
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">"Kings
County Hospital doctors, nurses facing charges in Esmin Green
death-by-neglect case." And read the NYC Department of
Investigation's
<a href="http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doi/pdf/pr_esmingreen_finalrpt.pdf">report</a>.</span></font></font></p>
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<a href="http://www.narpa.org/listening%20to%20madness.htm">Listening to
Madness</a> </span></font></b><font face="Georgia" color="#ffffff">
<font face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">- Why some
mentally ill patients are rejecting their medication and making the
case for "mad pride" (a May 2009 Newsweek piece on Will Hall and the
<a href="http://theicarusproject.net/">Icarus Project</a>)</span></font></font></p>
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<a href="http://www.offthegridproductions.com/">"<b>Tremors in the System</b>:
the help you want or the help you get"</a></font></span><font face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></font>
</font></b><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> - a</span></font></font></i><font face="Century Gothic" color="#ffffff"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> new 23
minute film by <a href="http://www.offthegridproductions.com/pages/Nora.html">Nora
Jacobson</a> features long time NARPA member and supporter Marj
Berthold and her experiences in the Vermont mental health system. </span></font>
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