Madness Radio Producer's Blog

Icarus collective member Will Hall was invited to speak at a 150 year-old psychiatric hospital in Toronto Canada with a group of family members about how to help their relatives going through mental health crisis, sponsored by the innovative Family Outreach and Response agency.

Chiapas '07 trip the Zapatista encuentro -- Proyecto Icarus presente! w/slideshow...

Meeting the dreambody on a hike in Easthampton and at a conference at the University of London.

I'm at the Best Western in Northampton watching the Food Channel with my dear friend, happy she's not dead. Because she might have been, and I might be writing a eulogy and preparing a memorial instead of this blog post. She started taking the bipolar drug Lamictal, and it almost killed her.

The Brooklyn Court has ruled that the gag order on Will Hall and other advocates who received copies of leaked documents is lifted! Advocates who did not return the documents had their injunctions made permanent, however, and the ruling has put atttorney Jim Gottstein, who subpoenaed the files and gave them to the New York Times, in very hot water.

The Hampshire Daily Gazette just published front-page story, with a photo, about Will Hall receiving an Eli-Lilly gag order after documents about blockbuster schizophrenia drug Zyprexa were leaked anonymously to the internet. The documents are a smoking gun of criminal fraud and illegal marketing.

Icarus staff Will Hall is on a gag order list filed in court by pharmaceutical giant Eli-Lilly, in an effort to stop the spread of leaked documents showing criminal fraud in marketing its blockbuster schizophrenia drug Zyprexa. Read the New York Times story about the growing free speech issue, and also the local Northampton, MA front-page story.

Medicinal herb foraging with a semi-automatic pistol.

After Alaska Attorney Jim Gottstein leaked Eli-Lilly documents about Zyprexa, proving a coverup of illegal practices and drug risks, to the New York Times, Eli-Lilly's legal hit squad has ben working overtime... Check out zyprexakills.us/

Federal express me benzodiazepines.

OK so I'm in the land of John Waters, who created the "Come To Baltimore and Be Shocked" bumpersticker as a joke -- and the City Council made it the official city motto. Waters is the only public figure I would elect as president with complete confidence, and his Female Trouble taught me everything I needed to know about politics that I didn't learn listening to Pink Floyd The Wall with headphones over and over again. (Maybe I'm exagerrating -- but not by much.) So I feel at home here.