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Stigmatizing Mental Illness Ought to be a Crime

By On April 27, 2011 · 3 Comments

From the Women in Crime Ink blog, by Anne Bremner.

Catherine Zeta Jones was outed by the National Enquirer for having sought treatment for bipolar disorder. Her response was swift, sure, and inspiring: “There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.” She acknowledged [...]

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The Truth About Bipolar Disorder

By On September 28, 2010 · 32 Comments

I’ve seen a lot of weird things flying through the internet lately about bipolar disorder so I thought I would try and address the issue. Bipolar disorder was formerly known as manic-depression, and is thought to affect as much as 3% of the US population. Recently there has been a lot of talk about “Bipolar [...]

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Seattle Times Fails to Disclose Conflict of Interest in Anne Bremner Case; Disclosure of Documents Comes to an End

By On September 7, 2010 · 15 Comments

Concluding the end of a several month investigation by the Seattle Times related to my sister attorney Anne Bremner pleading guilty to a DUI, the Seattle Times has continued in their failure to reveal a conflict of interest related to the fact that they were involved in a lawsuit with a committee co-chaired [...]

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Welcome to America, Where We Have Criminalized Mental Illness: The Case of My Sister, Attorney Anne Bremner

By On September 2, 2010 · 42 Comments

On June 3, 2010, my sister Anne Bremner, an attorney from Seattle, WA, who is a frequent commenter on legal matters on FOX, CNN, and other channels, was side swiped by a car, driven off the road, crashed, and hit her head and suffered a concussion. She was coming from a party where she’d had a [...]

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Rebecca Riley: Tragic Death of a Four-Year-Old From Multiple Psychotropic Medications

By On August 31, 2010 · 26 Comments

Rebecca Riley is a 4-year-old from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who was found dead at the foot of her parents bed, covered by only a blanket, in 2007. Rebecca had been “diagnosed” with ADHD and bipolar disorder since the age of 2 and treated with Seroquel (quetiapine), Depakote (valproic acid), and clonidine, none of which [...]

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Pimping for Neurontin

By On January 28, 2009 · 6 Comments

This has been quite a year for disturbing revelations about the corruption of the medical literature by pharmaceutical company interests. I wrote previously about ghost writing by Merck and others, and how papers were produced by drug companies that said “insert author here” and then they went out and shopped around for an author [...]

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