Journalist Robert Whitaker and nonprofit director Sera Davidow traveled to Burlington in July for Vermont Mad Pride, where they served as the keynote speakers. Whitaker, the bestselling author of Anatomy of an Epidemic and the founder of the website Mad In America,...
Twenty-two of 24 respondents (91.7%) voted no on the summer Counterpoint poll: “If you threaten emergency department staff while in a mental health crisis, should you be arrested for a crime?” The question related to legislation introduced in Montpelier in January...
Watching the General Assembly’s last-minute scramble in June to figure out how not to kick 2,000 homeless Vermonters out of the motels sheltering them, I thought about all the time that legislators had spent during the winter and spring deliberating over bills that...
Commentary by Anne Donahue Almost 25 years. That’s how long it’s been since I took on the job as editor of Counterpoint. This is my final issue; I’m retiring this month. The changes over that time in the psychiatric survivor world have been a kaleidoscope of the good...
Testimony on S. 36 by Heidi Henkel I support the goal for health care workers in emergency rooms to have good workplace safety and not get injured or work under the threat of possible injury. I doubt that arresting people who threaten or commit violence in the ER, and...
Essay by Adam A. Meyers My name is Adam A. Meyers and I was a police officer in Wisconsin for 21 years. On Friday, April 8, 2016, at 5:15 p.m., I was involved in a critical incident when I used deadly force against someone who armed themselves with a hatchet inside a...
