'The Megaphone Effect: Reclaiming Recovery' explores the evolution of a patient rights group at Western State Hospital known as the 'Sanka Party' that formed in response to lost rights and privileges after one Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity patient walked away from an Eastern State Hospital sanctioned field trip. The resulting mass media frenzy culminated in a series of punitive legislation and state hospital policies eroding patient rights and ultimately the hope of recovery by patients at both state hospitals. The patients' goal in making 'The Megaphone Effect' is to educate lawmakers and the public in order to advocate for change in the punitive law and policy in order to reclaim recovery.