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HOT CONTROVERSIES FROM REDFLAGSDAILY.COM, AUGUST 23, 2003

 

" Nicholas Regush "

 

 

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2003

 

click to read articles

 

http://www.redflagsdaily.com

 

HOT CONTROVERSIES

 

FORCED DRUGGING

 

There is a drama building in Pasadena, California. Six hunger strikers, all

former psychiatric patients, are demanding that the American Psychiatric

Association, the National Alliance For the Mentally Ill, and the U.S. Surgeon

General provide evidence that " emotional and mental problems are primarily a

biologically-based brain disease. "

 

Few people are aware of this hunger strike because it appears that the mass

media do not give a damn about these people and their cause. I do.

 

What they are questioning is of paramount importance and, in many ways, their

questions aim at the very core of health policy, which is often based on

ideology and not science.

 

Here are my four columns thus far on the subject. I plan to continue to focus

attention on this hunger strike for freedom in mental health:

 

THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION SHOWS ITS ARROGANCE

 

A MINDFREEDOM SCIENTIFIC PANEL SOCKS IT TO THE ARROGANT AND

EDUCATIONALLY-CHALLENGED APA

 

CHOICE VS FORCED DRUGGING

 

FORCED DRUGGING: WHERE IS THE SCIENCE THAT SUPPORTS THIS PSYCHIATRIC POLICY?

 

Also, here is the website where daily reports are posted about the hunger strike

 

http://www.mindfreedom.org

 

And here is another website that focuses on psychiatric rights

 

LAW PROJECT FOR PSYCHIATRIC RIGHTS