Articles by DJ Jaffe on Mental Illness on Huffington Post

  • Ed Koch, Billie Boggs, and Serious Mental Ilness
  • Mental Illness, Patient Confidentiality and Gun Control
  • We Need More Violence on TV, Not Less
  • Why the Public Doesn’t Trust Mental Health Advocates
  • Action Plan for Obama to Reduce Violence by Mentally Ill
  • ‘New York Times’ Magazine on Mental Illness Gets It
  • Department of Justice Finds New Program Reduces Violence by Mentally Ill
  • Closing New York State Psychiatric Hospitals Is Dangerous
  • California’s Mental Health Services Act Needs to Focus on Mental Illness
  • SAMHSA Statistics Ignore 500,000 Mentally Ill
  • Gabrielle Giffords and Mental Illness One Year Later
  • Mentally Ill Man Who Murdered a Law Enforcement Officer May Be Released
  • Survey: Law Enforcement Overburdened by Failure of Mental Health Departments
  • Report: Laura’s Law Works for Mentally Ill Los Angelenos
  • Book Review: Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker
  • San Francisco Mayoral Candidates and Mental Illness
  • Orange County Supervisors Misled by Health Care Agency on Laura’s Law
  • Scott Dekraai, Alleged Seal Beach Salon Shooter, Needed California’sLaura’s Law
  • Supercommittee: Eliminate SAMHSA
  • Carson City, NV Shooting: Mental Illness Compromises National Security
  • California Eliminating Mental Illness Treatment
  • The California Mental Health System and the Death of Mentally Ill Kelly Thomas
  • Charlie Rangel on Mental Illness
  • Mental Illness Stigma and How to Eliminate It
  • Improve Care For Mentally Ill: Eliminate Mental Health Agencies
  • How California Can Comply With Supreme Court Order to Release 33,000 Prisoners
  • NYS’s Most Effective Mental Illness Program May Be DOA
  • There’s No Stigma to Having a Mental Illness
  • Ryan’s Medicaid Proposal “Could” Improve Care for Mentally Ill
  • The Link Between Serious Mental Illness and Violence
  • Sharon Stone’s Mentally Ill Stalker
  • Cuomo Should Merge Health and Mental Health Departments to Save Money, Improve Care
  • What Harry Reid and John Boehner Should Do in Wake of Giffords Shooting
  • Obama Left Out Jared Loughner and His Mom
  • 10 Years After Laura Wilcox Murder, California Still Refuses to Use Law That Saves Lives, Saves Money, and Helps Mentally Ill
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Jared Loughner and Mental Illness
  • Should Electroconvulsive Therapy Be More Difficult To Get? FDA To Decide.
  • Andrew Cuomo Should Not Keep Eliot Spitzer’s Mental Health Commissioner
  • What Should We Call People with Mental Illness?
  • Largest & Longest Study: Assisted Outpatient Treatment Law Helps Mentally Ill Avoid Incarceration, Homelessness and Hospitalization
  • Mental Illness Awareness Week Diverts Attention from Serious Mental Illness
  • People With Mental Illness Shunned by Alternatives 2010 Conference in Anaheim
  • Does the National Alliance on Mental Illness represent seriously mentally ill?
  • Mental Illness Policy Forces Police to Shoot Mentally Ill James Jay Lee at Discovery Channel
  • Court rules gassing mentally ill is illegal. Is this the best we can do?
  • Cure mental illness by supporting these organizations
  • Treat dangerous schizophrenia, the same way we treat TB.
  • NYS Senate voted today to not help mentally ill, not keep public safer and not save money
  • Hey, Andrew Cuomo: Eliminate the NYS Office of Mental Health
  • New Report: It’s Now a Crime to be Mentally Ill
  • Pentagon Shooting Proves APA Has a Lot to Learn About Mental Illness
  • Mental Health Parity: Obama Style
  • Mental Health Kills the Mentally Ill
  • Elizabeth Smart Kidnapper Brian Mitchell may become Mentally Ill and Legally Untreatable
  • Fire NYS Office of Mental Health Commissioner Michael Hogan
  • Maurice Clemmons: Mental Illness Does Cause Violence
  • FDA Considers Caving to Scientology and Making Mental Illness Treatment Illegal
  • Meds can Reduce Homelessness but the Homeless (and Advocates) Don’t Get It.
  • Mental Illness Awareness Week Is Nothing to Celebrate — In Fact, It Doesn’t Even Exist
  • Health Care Reform Keeps Mentally Ill Uninsured