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Protect PAIMI website – visit this website for a comprehensive list of letters by groups who oppose H.R. 2646

January 2016

Stop The Murphy Bill, interview with Leah Harris, “Madness Radio” podcast, January 25, 2016.

December 2015

• Assumption of Mental Illness in Shootings Growing, Wrong by Thomas Templeton, Albany Times Union, December 27, 2015
• Federal mental health reform bill raises civil rights questions by Andy Marso, Kansas Health Institute News Service, December 23, 2015
• Kansan abused at Newton facility opposes mental-health reform bill by Tim Carpenter, Topeka Capital-Journal, December 21, 2015
• Police action on Philip Coleman was unacceptable by David Perry, CNN.com, December 17, 2015
• Mental Health Reform Will Not Reduce US Gun Violence, Experts Say by Rita Rubin, MA, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), December 16, 2015
• Protect PAIMI – Nancy Jensen’s Call For Help by Keri, Topeka-Capital Journal Online, December 16, 2015
• Commentary: Board Offered Bad Advice About Mental Health Reform by Kathleen Flaherty and Nancy Alisberg, The Connecticut Law Tribune, December 11, 2015
• The Human Rights Crisis We Ignore by Melody Moezzi, The Huffington Post, December 11, 2015
• Jim Probert: Legislation threatens civil rights of mentally ill, The Gainesville Sun, December 9, 2015
• The Modern Day Witch-Hunt by Noel Hunter, MadInAmerica.com, December 5, 2015
• Paul Ryan blames mass shootings on mental health laws by David Perry, Al Jazeera America, December 5, 2015
• More harm than good: Federal bill is not the way to change mental health system by Ron Sylvester, The Hutchinson News, December 4, 2015
• Mental illness: an easy scapegoat for those who won’t point fingers elsewhere by Ari Ne’eman, The Guardian, December 3, 2015
• Democrats Still Skeptical on Mental Health Bill Compromise by John Reid, Morning Consult, December 3, 2015
• The function of the Murphy Bill is to make sure gun control never happens by Larry Drain, Hopeworks Community, December 3, 2015
• Debunking myths about gun violence and mental health by Renee Twombly, MedicalXpress.com, December 2, 2015
• Republicans are gunning for mental health scapegoat by Robert Bernstein, The Hill, December 2, 2015
• Mental Illness and the Law, WHYY Radio Times, December 1, 2015
• Why Equating Mental Illness with Violence Harms Us All By Representative Paul Tonko, Medium.com, December 1, 2015

November 2015

• Advocates Reaffirm Opposition to Mental Health Bill by Taylor Sisk, North Carolina Health News, November 30, 2015
• Rep. Tim Murphy May Be in Violation of Professional Psychological Ethics & the Law by Jasenn Zaejian, MadInAmerica.com, November 29, 2015
• Where’s the Outrage? by Pat Risser, MadinAmerica.com, November 25, 2015
• Mental Health Bill Falls Short by Diane Engster, J.D., Letter to the Editor, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, November 24, 2015
• Washington’s Horrible Mental Health Legislation by Leah Harris, The Huffington Post, November 23, 2015
• Urgent Action Alert: We Must Defeat the Murphy Bill! by the National Council on Independent Living, Advocacy Monitor, November 22, 2015
• Misconceived Mental Health Legislation – Frederick News-Post Editorial Board – November 23, 2015
• Carefully crafting consensus on mental health legislation by Ron Manderscheid, Behavioral Health Care – November 18, 2015
• – November 12, 2015
• “Murphy Bill” Continues to Exclude Voices of Millions with Mental Health Conditions as It Moves to Full Committee by the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery, November 12, 2015
• Saving Congressman Murphy from Fraudulent Information by Dr. Dennis Embry, Morning Zen – November 6, 2015
• Mental Health Bill Caters to Big Pharma and Would Expand Coercive Treatments by Oryx Cohen, Truthout – November 6, 2015
• Mass murderers claim another victim: America’s mental health system by Mark Salzer, The Philadelphia Enquirer – November 4, 2015
• Danger Ahead if HR 2646 (the “Murphy Bill”) Passes! by Susan Rogers, Mad in America – November 4, 2015

October 2015

• The Problem with Blaming Mass Shootings on Mental Illness by Kate Murphy, The Federalist – October 19, 2015
• Day of Action Held to Oppose Mental Health Bill by Taylor Sisk, North Carolina Health News – October 15, 2015
• National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) Response to Representative Murphy’s Op-Ed Titled: “Mass Shootings and a Mental-Health Disgrace” – Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2015
• Why the Murphy Bill Gets it Wrong by Gabe Howard, Psych Central – October 7, 2015

August – September 2015 

• Excellent Op-Ed on the Murphy Bill by Madeline Ringwald, Albany-Times-Union, September 27, 2015 – Focuses on the “IMD Exclusion”
• Finding the Killers among us Isn’t Simple by Matthew Goldenberg, M.D. – September 19, 2015
• The core beliefs of Murphy by Larry Drain, Hopeworks Community, September 12, 2015
• The Issue is Gun Control, by Ron Manderscheid, Behavioral Healthcare, August 30, 2015
• Awake! The day for important advocacy is upon us by Ron Manderscheid, Behavioral Healthcare, August 7, 2015

July 2015

• The 2015 Murphy Mental Health Crisis Act: Little Better this Time Around by John Grohol, Psych Central, July 25, 2015
• Scott Bryant-Comstock, President & CEO, Children’s Mental Health Network, July 7, 2015
  The ‘Murphy bill’ (H.R. 2646) fails its own home inspection 
• Monica Cassani, Beyond Meds, July 3, 2015
  Murphy bill update and action recommended
• Jean Arnold, National Stigma Clearinghouse, July 1, 2015
  Will the Murphy – Johnson Bill, HR 2646, Help Struggling Families, Or will it arrest progress and turn back the clock on mental healthcare? 
• Heller’s Scapegoats by Katie Rose Guest Pryal, North Carolina Law Review, July 2015

June 2015

• The fraud of Murphy by Larry Drain, Hopeworks Community, June 30, 2015
• Regarding Representative Tim Murphy’s Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act by Noel Hunter, MadinAmerica.com, June 19, 2015
• The hospital illusion: on the “thoughts” of Patrick Kennedy  by Larry Drain, Hopeworks Community, June 18, 2015
• The confusing Murphy Bill  by Larry Drain, Hopeworks Community, June 16, 2015
• The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, June 16, 2015
  The “Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015” Represents Wrong Policy Direction
• Proposed Changes to the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Program in H.R. 2646 Would Negatively Affect People with Psychiatric Disabilities by the National Disability Rights Network, June 9, 2015
• The Murphy Bill, Take Two by the Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community
• Mental Health Advocates Oppose Rep. Tim Murphy’s Bill for Promoting Forced “Treatment” Over More Effective and Less Expensive Voluntary Care  by the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery

February 2015

• Should APA have endorsed the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act? by Dinah Miller, Clinical Psychiatry News, February 4, 2015.

2014

• The power of words: What the Wall Street Journal didn’t tell you by Scott Bryan Comstock, Morning Zen, April 17, 2014
• The Murphy Bill: Ethical Considerations for the State of Mental Health Care and its Consumers by Morgan Shields, Harvard Public Health Review, January 2014

       Larry Drain, Hopeworks Community blog posts:

• Mental health vs. mental illness: where DJ Jaffe is wrong November 23, 2014
• On the myths of the myths of the Murphy bill August 20, 2014
• The problem with the Murphy Bill is not that it asks too much. It settles for too little. July 14, 2014
• Power and honesty July 11, 2014
• 1/3 of 1%: the selling of AOT May 18, 2014
• The Murphy bottom lines May 16, 2014