Amy Lutz
Amy S.F. Lutz writes about autism and other issues pertaining to mental health for Inquisitr, Slate and Psychology Today. Her book "Each Day I Like It Better: Autism, ECT, and the Treatment of Our Most Impaired Children," was published in April. She is one of the co-founders of EASI Foundation: Ending Aggression and Self-Injury in the Developmentally Disabled (www.easifoundation.org), a non-profit that supports autistic individuals with dangerous behaviors and their families.On Tuesday, Oregon, Alaska, and the District of Columbia all voted to legalize recreational marijuana, bolstering the prediction of experts such as Harvard professor emeritus Lester Grinspoon, MD, who has declared the end of the seventy-year American prohibition of marijuana “inevitable.” But despite this growing acceptance — medical marijuana is available in nearly half the… Continue reading Marijuana Legalization Won’t Open Door to Autism Research
Tyler Loftus has been sitting in New Jersey’s Hunterdon County Jail since September 18. “Every day he calls and says, ‘Mom, come get me, I don’t want to stay here,’” his mother, Rita O’Grady, told me. Diagnosed with autism and intellectual disability, Tyler has the cognitive capacity of a 5-year-old. He can’t understand why he’s… Continue reading No End In Sight For Autistic Man Jailed In New Jersey