Updates: Your Mind & Freedom -  17 April 2007
http://www.MindFreedom.org  

(1) MindFreedom Statement on Virginia Tech Massacre

MindFreedom is calling for an immediate and complete investigation of all

aspects of the involvement of the mental health system with Cho

Seung-Hui, the apparent shooter in the Virginia Tech Massacre.

What psychiatric drugs were prescribed? What role if any did

prescribed psychiatric drugs play in this tragedy? How effective was the

care offered to Cho Seung-Hui? What else could have been done?

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(2) Listen LIVE and call in to MindFreedom Internet radio, TOMORROW,

Wednesday, 18 April, 4 pm EST:

Host David Oaks will have latest news about mental health issues

related to Virginia Tech Massacre. Phone in your questions and

comments live and toll free. Or e-mail in your questions at any time to

radio@mindfreedom.org

Special guest: Journalist Bob Whitaker, author of the popular book

"Mad in America," exposes the hidden problems of psychiatry both in the

past and today.

Listen free to LIVE MindFreedom radio on Wednesdays at 4 pm ET by

clicking on http://www.prncomm.net

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(2) Update: "Creative Revolution in Healing: Turning Our Minds Around"

There's a new "Travel Center" link in the Creative Revolution

Conference/Retreat web page. Find out how you can coordinate your

ground travel to the conference site. Plus, the latest updates about

plenary speakers and workshop presenters.

The gathering is in a beautiful retreat center in rural Connecticut to

help create a choice of alternatives to the conventional mental health

system, 12 to 15 July 2007. Half of registration fee is due as a deposit

by 30 April 2007.

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All this and more at the MindFreedom News Web Site:

http://www.mindfreedom.org

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* Promote safe, humane, effective options in mental health?

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MindFreedom is a nonprofit human rights group that unites 100 sponsor and

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Nations as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with Consultative Roster

Status.

MindFreedom is one of the very few totally independent groups in the

mental health field with no funding from governments, drug companies,

religions, corporations, or the mental health system. While most of

MindFreedom's members are psychiatric survivors, *all* who support human

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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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