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.
Letter: Psychiatric patients need legal protection
The state could supply psychiatric facilities $500 million per year and psychiatric patients would still be mistreated, because they do not have a right by law not to be.
Letter: State is failing mental health patients
The Anchorage police do not have the policies nor the training to properly deal with an individual experiencing a psychotic break.
Letter: Start with rights for patients
The Legislature needs to give the disabled a right by law to be treated in a fair way.
Letter: Two sides to ACLU
In my opinion and research, regardless of sexual orientation, race, etc., acute care psychiatric patients are the most mistreated group in America.
Letter: Mental health care reform
I spent five months locked in Alaska Psychiatric Institute. I suffered because of poor policies and lack of rights which contributed to mistreatment.
Design problems at the heart of Alaska mental health treatment woes
The state-run Alaska Psychiatric Institute was improperly designed not only to meet the needs of 13 years ago when it opened its doors, but for the foreseeable future.
Letter: Mental health improvements needed
Disabled psychiatric patients are often put in harm’s way because they do not have a clear right by Alaska law not to be.