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This Action, on Change.org, the url :)

Defend Kids :)

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[PsychRights] PsychRights Appeals Dismissal of Lawsuit Against State Over
Harmful Psychiatric Drugging of Alaskan Children & Youth :)

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 30, 2009

CONTACT:
Jim Gottstein
907-274-7686
jim.gottstein@...

PsychRights Appeals Dismissal of Lawsuit Against State Over Harmful Psychiatric
Drugging of Alaskan Children & Youth

The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®) today filed its appeal of
the Anchorage Superior Court's dismissal of Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
v. Alaska et al., for lack of standing. "We believe the Court erred in
dismissing the lawsuit and hope the Alaska Supreme Court will agree," said Jim
Gottstein, President of PsychRights.

PsychRights v. Alaska was filed last Fall to halt the State of Alaska's practice
of administering and paying for psychiatric drugs to children and youth without
proper decision making. In moving for dismissal the State admitted it was
incapable of protecting the children and youth:

A reading of the Complaint makes obvious that the true subject of plaintiff's
grievances is not the Department, but prescribers of psychotropic
pharmaceuticals, the pharmaceutical companies which produce and market them, and
the overall culture of pediatric psychiatry. The implication that the Department
possesses meaningful authority and control over these matters-or is in any
realistic position to administer the relief requested even if the court were to
order it-is a fiction.

"It is unfortunate the Superior Court decided to allow the extreme harm being
caused by the State's abdication of responsibility to youth over whom it has
seized control to continue without any consideration of the merits," says Mr.
Gottstein.

PsychRights v. Alaska seeks to obtain a court order prohibiting the psychiatric
drugging of children and youth by the State unless and until

(i) evidence-based psychosocial interventions have been exhausted,

(ii) rationally anticipated benefits of psychotropic drug treatment outweigh
the risks,

(iii) the person or entity authorizing administration of the drug(s) is fully
informed of the risks and potential benefits, and

(iv) close monitoring of, and appropriate means of responding to, treatment
emergent effects are in place.

"That the State is resisting these perfectly reasonable measures speaks
volumes," concluded Mr. Gottstein.

All of the substantive filings in the lawsuit are available on the Internet at
http://psychrights.org/States/Alaska/PsychRightsvAlaska.htm.

The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights is a public interest law firm devoted to
the defense of people facing the horrors of unwarranted forced psychiatric
drugging and electroshock. PsychRights is further dedicated to exposing the
truth about psychiatric interventions and the courts being misled into ordering
people subjected to these brain and body damaging drugs against their will.
Extensive information about these dangers, and about the tragic damage caused by
electroshock, is available on the PsychRights web site:

http://psychrights.org/.

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James B. (Jim) Gottstein, Esq.
President/CEO

Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
406 G Street, Suite 206
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
USA
Phone: (907) 274-7686) Fax: (907) 274-9493
jim.gottstein[[at]]psychrights.org


http://psychrights.org/

PsychRights®
Law Project for
Psychiatric Rights

The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights is a public interest law firm devoted to
the defense of people facing the horrors of forced psychiatric drugging. We are
further dedicated to exposing the truth about these drugs and the courts being
misled into ordering people to be drugged and subjected to other brain and body
damaging interventions against their will. Extensive information about this is
available on our web site, http://psychrights.org/. Please donate generously.
Our work is fueled with your IRS 501(c) tax deductible donations. Thank you for
your ongoing help and support.

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http://psychrights.org/PR/090630PsychRightsvAlaskaAppeal.pdf