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...papers. But Yoder's tireless campaign to build a movement for his release is beginning to gain national support. "I have found no evidence of psychosis--only a justifiably angry man," wrote Dr. Loren Mosher in a letter last year to Illinois Governor George Ryan. A former chief of schizophrenia studies at the National Institute of Mental Health, Mosher charged that "the state is practicing preventive detention in the guise of mental-health 'treatment.'" Yoder's most famous advocate is Patch Adams, the physician Robin Williams played in the movie. "He was angry, but it was clear to me that...
...people have committed homicides after being discharged, and those killings have won vast media coverage. In response, seven states have passed laws making it easier for authorities to force psychiatric treatment. Recently the nation tried to make sense of Andrea Yates, who drowned her children after years of ineffective schizophrenia treatment. Her case revealed a mental-health system too distracted and meagerly funded to decide what to do with...
...back office. Are drugs overused? Can treatment really work if it's involuntary? Is something like "delusional disorder" a brain disease or a behavioral problem or both? These debates are far from settled. Sometime in the past decade, it became a requirement of polite conversation to say that schizophrenia and other mental illnesses are "no different" from pneumonia. But the latest neurological research has offered only the roughest idea of the precise mechanism by which a disease such as schizophrenia arises. Scientists are decades away from being able to use a brain scan to diagnose something like Yoder's alleged...
...brain. The more you smoke, the less sensitive the receptor becomes. TIME: How is a person's behavior affected? Greenfield : Research shows that the drug leads to impaired memory and coordination. These effects may be long-term and irreversible. There is strong evidence that marijuana can trigger schizophrenia. Then there's demotivational syndrome, an inability to focus on anything beyond the next fix. TIME: Is it addictive? Greenfield : That depends how we define addiction. Cannabis users have to take ever-larger quantities to achieve the desired effect. Studies show that about 10% of users can't stop their habit, despite...
...lawman involved in his capture noticed no signs of intoxication. "It appeared that he hadn't been drinking," says Washoe County, Nev., Sheriff Dennis Balaam. "I asked him if he was taking any type of medication, and he said no." Some lean toward an organic explanation--emerging schizophrenia, perhaps--for his cosmic goof gone wrong...