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NAMI Says a Few Congressional Leaders Will Decide Mental Health Parity:

Nov 28, 2001

On the eve of a news conference with former First Lady Rosalyn Carter at the U.S. Capitol (Nov. 29 at 11AM), the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)) says that the fate of legislation strengthening health insurance parity for mental illnesses lies in the hands of only a few key leaders in the House of Representatives.

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NAMI Opposes Michigan Move To Restrict Medicaid Access to Drugs

Nov 14, 2001

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) has called on state legislators in Michigan to refrain from adopting a Medicaid drug formulary plan that would place strict restrictions on consumer access to certain medicines.

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NAMI Opposes Michigan Move To Restrict Medicaid Access to Drugs

Nov 14, 2001

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) has called on state legislators in Michigan to refrain from adopting a Medicaid drug formulary plan that would place strict restrictions on consumer access to certain medicines.

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U.S. Senate Passes Parity for Mental Health Insurance: Victory for Consumers and Nation’s Needs

Oct 31, 2001

Late yesterday, the United States Senate passed an amendment to the FY2002 Labor, Health &, Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS) Appropriations bill, based on the Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act (S.543), introduced by Senators Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Paul Wellstone (D-MN).

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NIMH Director Steven Hyman to return to Harvard; NAMI praises his leadership as “A hard act to follow”

Oct 29, 2001

Since 1996, Steven E. Hyman, M.D. has served with distinction as a brilliant, dynamic, outspoken director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), presiding over an agency with more than 1,000 scientists and budget of $1.2 billion. He will be a hard act for anyone to follow.

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Mental health system “failed” man who attacked Beatle George Harrison

Oct 23, 2001

British health officials offered formal apologies to the Harrisons and Abram, who remains detained in a secure facility.

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NAMI Applauds World Health Organization’s Landmark Report on Mental Health

Oct 4, 2001

The report is the culmination of WHO's year-long campaign on mental health, and marks the first time in the organization's history that World Health Day and the World Health Report were both dedicated to a single topic - mental health and mental illnesses.

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The Andrea Yates Case: Family To Family

Sep 17, 2001

But even when a person with a mental illness knows the basic difference between right and wrong, the twisted logic and confusion of psychosis-which may include delusions and hallucinations-still may convince them that wrong is right, and that doing the unthinkable is what needs to be done.

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NAMI Warns Sony and Mattel: International Reputations are at Risk

Aug 30, 2001

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) has launched a protest of products marketed by Sony Corporation of America and Mattel, Inc. that violate the U.S. Surgeon General's call on the entertainment industry to eliminate the stigma that surrounds mental illness.

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Text of Letter to Corporate Leaders of Sony, Mattel, and Max Steel from Richard C. Birkel, Ph.D., NAMI Executive Director

Aug 28, 2001

In recent months we have received reports from parents appalled at the character "Psycho" featured in the Max Steel television series and sold as an action figure by Mattel. In addition, Sony is promoting hurtful, inaccurate, dehumanizing stigma about people with mental illnesses in connection with violent video games.

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