Bipolar News for February 14, 2007

Bipolar News

February 14, 2007

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Report on mentally ill in U.S. prisons: TV news show looks at plight of mentally ill held behind bars.
South Bend Tribune
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) -- A "60 Minutes" report about a Michigan prisoner who died after spending four days naked and shackled in an isolated cell the size of a walk-in closet and had been strapped down onto a concrete slab for 17 straight hours, is to be aired Sunday.

Details on Lamar murder-suicide revealed
KRIS-TV Corpus Christi
New details surfaced Thursday night on the Lamar man who shot and killed his parents, then took his own life on Wednesday.

Another chance
Standard-Examiner
New procedure 'a lifesaver' for severely depressed man OGDEN - When Sean Kearney was in the fifth grade, he made an announcement to his friends.

Man sentenced in bomb conspiracy
The Morning Call
Area resident had met with FBI agents posing as al-Qaida members. An Upper Mount Bethel man who pleaded guilty in September to conspiring to sell bombs to al-Qaida was sentenced Friday to five years in federal prison.

Mental health issues haunt many accused of crimes
The Marietta Times
Over the years, police have had several dealings with Leonard Carpenter - mostly for minor offenses.

DeKalb County Woman Missing
WHNT-TV Huntsville
The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office needs your help to find a missing woman. Toni Marie Smock was last seen Monday on Dekalb County Road 147 in Henager.

New Inspirational Self-help CD Urges Listeners to 'Get Crazy for Yourself'
PRWeb via Yahoo! News
From the inspiring motivational speaker Wambui Bahati, better known as "Miss Inspiration", comes a powerful, entertaining and personal narrative for people living with or recovering from mental illness - Crazy For Me - How I Got Over Bipolar Disorder And Other Life Stuff.

Man arrested after stand-off on I-44
NewsChannel 10 Amarillo
SAPULPA, Okla. Sapulpa police say a man with bipolar disorder who officers thought had a rifle held police in a stand-off for nearly an hour and a half on Interstate...

Mental health workshops offered
DeWitt-Bath Review
CHARLOTTE - "Always remember that you are a person first and foremost. A mental health label does not define you. You are not 'depression' or 'schizophrenia' or 'bipolar'. You are a person. A person with cancer does not call himself or herself 'cancer', so why should you limit yourself to a label?"

The Death Of Timothy Souders
CBS News
A mentally ill prison inmate died of thirst after he was restrained for 17 straight hours ? 15 past the policy limit ? in a procedure now banned. Scott Pelley reports on the plight of mentally ill inmates.

Genetic Engineering Cures Mice Of Brain Disorder
Science Daily
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Erasmus Medical Center show that preventing the inhibition of CaMKII reverses the neurological deficits in a mouse model of Angelman syndrome, a rare disorder that causes mental retardation, motor impairments and seizures.

'60 Minutes' Investigates Death Of Michigan Inmate
ClickOnDetroit
A Michigan prisoner dies after spending days naked and shackled in an isolated cell the size of a walk-in closet, according to a "60 Minutes" investigation.

How one woman got hooked on happy pills
Independent
On the morning of 7 July 2005, I stepped on to a Piccadilly Line Tube train and began my regular subterranean journey across London. Little did I know that this was to be the start of a journey that has not yet found its end. It was the Tube train on which a 19-year-old man decided to blow himself up, killing 26 innocent people and injuring hundreds of others.

Robbie Williams checks into rehab clinic
AFP via Yahoo! News
Troubled British pop star Robbie Williams spent his 33rd birthday in a US rehab clinic after checking in for dependency on prescription drugs, his spokeswoman said here.

From the Daily: Don't throw away the key
Michigan Daily
Timothy Souders, a mentally ill inmate at Jackson prison, died of dehydration last August after being chained to a steel bed for almost four days. After Souders's death, a judge ruled that Michigan needs far-reaching mental health reform. In response, Gov.

This Week's Bipolar News

Credit Card Consolidation Speeds Freedom from Debt from Bipolar Disorder
by David Oliver
There's no question that many people dealing with bipolar disorder have unfortunately developed a tremendous amount of debt.

A patient's view of bipolar
Minnesota Public Radio
After being diagnosed with the most severe form of bipolar disorder, Marya Hornbacher chronicles her journey to accepting and managing her mental life.

Mother's mental illness diagnosed a decade ago
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Sherri Love has a history of mental illness dating back more than a decade. The 47-year-old, on trial in District Court on charges she fatally stabbed her 7-year-old daughter, tried to kill herself multiple times and was diagnosed as bipolar, authorities said.

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Don't be a Victim of Pharmacy Errors

CNN Medical News published a story about a woman who was pregnant and filled a prescription for prenatal vitamins at her local Walgreens in St. Louis, Missouri.

Unfortunately, this woman miscarried within a few weeks of taking the drug. Later, she learned that instead of being given a prescription for her prenatal vitamins (Materna), she had instead been given Matulane, which is a chemotherapy drug used to treat Hodgkin's disease, according to a lawsuit filed this month in federal court.

According to the lawsuit, the drug (Matulane) is intended to interfere with cell growth and DNA development.

According to the National Patient Safety Foundation, each year in the United States there are 30 million dispensing errors out of 3 billion prescriptions which occur at outpatient pharmacies. Some errors are minor, and some patients catch them easily; however, other errors can be serious.

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