Psychotic Disorders

SF's Homelessness, Gangs, and Needles: A Schizo Summer

Just Say No

Conventional wisdom says psychiatric drugs save lives, but for some San Franciscans the pills are a prescription for disaster

Replicator

You Are Under Surveillance

Mental Cruelty

Michael Wise and Susan Owsley are recovering schizophrenics who got the right kind of help, and got off the street.The mayor's secret budget cuts will make sure that doesn't happen anymore.

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Jim Carrey stars in Me, Myself & Irene

Chronic City: After Further Review, Smoking Pot Doesn't Make You Crazy -- Blimey!

oldies.comWhich came first, the lunatics or the grass? The time-honored notion of reefer madness, given new life recently in the British tabloid press, has taken another hit from reality. Widespread marijuana use by the public has not been followed by a proportional rise in diagnoses of schizophreni ... More >>

Now and at the Hour

oldies.comWhich came first, the lunatics or the grass? The time-honored notion of reefer madness, given new life recently in the British tabloid press, has taken another hit from reality. Widespread marijuana use by the public has not been followed by a proportional rise in diagnoses of schizophreni ... More >>

Chronic City: Just The Marijuana Facts, Doc. No, Wait -- The REAL Facts.

Federal Art ProjectThe truth will set you free.Medical advice "City Bright" Doc Gurley published a column over at SFGate purporting to be the latest, bias-free, data-based information on marijuana. On the face of it, that's a great and laudable idea; we'll agree there is, indeed, a "desper ... More >>

Are Nursing Homes Over-Drugging Their Residents?

​According to the San Francisco-based organization California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), more than 25,000 California nursing-home residents are being given anti-psychotic drugs. That's about a quarter of the state's nursing-home population, and according to CANHR and other elder-ri ... More >>