Letter: Standards and expectations
To a society, people are a commodity. Everybody is important for success.
Letter: How we’re remembered
Time tends to add a haze of romance and forgetting.
Alaska needs independent oversight of psychiatric care
The state has reached the point of willful ignorance concerning the ongoing mistreatment of psychiatric patients.
Letter: Two sides of the story
First and foremost, there has to be a level playing field between psychiatric patients and the state.
Letter: State perpetuates mistreatment
The Legislature should pass laws that protect the disabled in the grievance process. Waiting for the courts will be at a high cost.
Letter: Who’s at the table?
Alaska has never granted the disadvantaged the rights they need in law to have their voices heard.
Letter: The streets are de facto institutions
My laundry list should be the starting point for the Legislature and city officials when caring for the disabled and reducing homelessness.
Letter: Proper care for psychiatric patients
Here is why Alaska has failed to properly care for acute care psychiatric patients: Patients and advocates are rarely included in determining new directions.
What does API’s recertification mean for patients? Not much.
There is a laundry list of bad things happening to psychiatric patients because none of them have proper assistance in filing a grievance or have a fair grievance procedure.
Letter: No need to reinvent the wheel
Society has set up an end-of-the-road scenario with no prospects for too many people. Individuals with mental illness often have even less choice.
Letter: No homeless solutions
When helping the less fortunate, society has the habit of aiming down, and that means we often shoot ourselves in the foot.
