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> SSRI-Research

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> [sSRI-Research] SHUT UP AND TAKE YOUR MEDS

>

> [-- Who the hell is Sally Satel -- Dr. Mengele in a

> skirt?????? We're on a very slippery slope with

> this psychiatric drug crap. ]

>

> SHUT UP AND TAKE YOUR DRUGS

>

> http://www.newswithviews.com/Mary/starrett53.htm

>

> By Mary Starrett

> August 22, 2004

> NewsWithViews.com

>

> President George W. Bush's New Freedom Commission on

> Mental Health is pushing for nationwide screening

> based on a similar program created while he was

> governor of Texas.

>

> One of the main goals of the president's commission

> is to ensure " early mental health of young children,

> improve and expand school mental health programs,

> screen for mental disorders in primary health care,

> across the life span and connect to treatment and

> supports. "

>

> The Bush administration, long tied in an unholy,

> generational alliance with the pharmaceutical

> companies, hopes to pattern this massive effort to

> get more Americans on drugs after the Texas Medical

> Algorithm Project (TMAP) in effect since 1995. This

> summer the British Medical Journal, daring to do

> what no U.S. publication would do, showed the

> connection between the pharmaceutical industry and

> the dangers associated with the TMAP program.

> Investigators and medical professionals were fired

> for calling attention to the abuses (including

> patient deaths) associated with TMAP. Under TMAP it

> was not unusual for some people to be placed on more

> than five psychiatric drugs at once.[1]

>

> What will happen under this national push to gain

> more market share for the drug companies? As with

> TMAP, people refusing drugs for what are diagnosed

> as a wide array of " disorders " can expect not only

> to be forced to take powerful and extremely

> dangerous neuroleptics, but also to receive shock

> treatment.

>

>

>

> Sound like something out of " Cuckoos Nest " ? Electro

> Convulsive Therapy or ECT is alive and well and

> sparking fear in the hearts of Americans each and

> every day. While you might think this

> Frankenstein-like " treatment " is a relic of the

> dark, dank asylums of the past, think again. Forced

> ECT happens here. It is an all too- often- used

> modality for " severely " depressed people. And get

> this- virtually every state has loopholes allowing

> shock therapy and drugs to be administered over the

> objections of the " patient " . (A note here;

> psychiatric professionals have long railed against

> the term " person " or " consumer " when referring to

> those they deem to need their " medical " attention.)

> Bush policy advisor on the New Freedom Commission,

> and his appointee on the Center for Mental Health

> Services National Advisory Council, psychiatrist

> Sally Satel has stated " coercive treatment " is

> essential. Satel, never one to oppose giving shrinks

> the power to do extreme mental makeovers on people,

> shows just

> how chilling the climate in this administration is

> getting by adding there's an " overemphasis " on

> patient " rights " that " people need to be protected

> from themselves " and that often " coercion " is

> essential.[2]

>

> Yikes.

>

> Bush's advisor Satel adds this horrifying hint at

> her " Me Doctor- You Subject " mentality when she

> adds: " My capacity as a physician has often been

> frustrated by laws that prevent me from doing my

> job " . This is the type of influence that makes the

> president's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

> one of his worst civil and human rights abuses to

> date. And that's saying something. (I wonder whether

> Satel (or Bush for that matter) ever read that

> reference in the Bill of Rights to " the right of

> the people to be secure in their persons…. " ?)

>

> This plan by the Bush administration to test all

> Americans for " mental illness " (just imagine all the

> ways that could be defined!) hasn't gone unnoticed

> by those whose lives have been made " chemical

> hell " [3] through forced psychiatric drugging.

> MindFreedom International, an umbrella group for

> over 100 advocacy groups says the New Freedom

> Commission has got to be stopped. They think this is

> nothing but a plan " cooked up " by the pharmaceutical

> companies. Group director David Oakes says " we

> demand President Bush start (the screening) with

> himself. We will provide the mental health

> professional to do the screening " . As a matter of

> fact they have secured the professional services of

> just such a professional. Patch Adams. The real one.

> The Virginia medical doctor who's life story was

> made into a popular movie starring Robin Williams

> said " I'll see him for free " .

>

> The president's plan to track down people(especially

> kids and teens) looking for " emotional " and " mental "

> problems only gets more terrifying when you add new

> drug-delivery technologies to the mix.

>

> University of Pensylvania professor and psychiatrist

> Steven Seigel has developed an implant for time

> releasing neuroleptic, antipsychotic medications

> like Haldol. The device, the size of a quarter, if

> approved and marketed could replace the locked wards

> of the mental institutions with what has been called

> a " chemical straitjacket " . Imagine, added to the

> president's mental health screening plan, an

> inch-wide implant that can deliver- for periods up

> to a year- powerful mind-numbing drugs that are

> reported to cause structural brain damage[4] (

> Seigel was asked to implant himself with the device

> and drug Haldol for a year. He reportedly just

> smiled and turned away).Inherently coercive, these

> drugs and their time release delivery systems

> eclipse even the most far-fetched mind control

> conspiracy theories out there.

>

> The implant is now being pitched to the FDA as a

> method of delivering the drug Haldol. A few of

> Haldol's side effects include confusion,

> disorientation, blurred vision, worsening glaucoma,

> facial tics, jitters and drug-induced

> Parkinsonism.[5] It is a drug that has been

> described by former(forced) users as " torture " .

>

> Implant inventor Seigel says his device is intended

> to " empower patients to relieve them of the burden

> of having to remember to take their drugs " . Why keep

> this good old American ingenuity all to ourselves?

> The good Doc Seigel has his sights set on selling

> the implant to " developing countries worldwide. "

> Another special American gift to the underprivileged

> of the world, I suppose. And just think of the

> places it would go! Prisons! Daycare Centers!

> Nursing Homes!

>

> Yes, indeed, the current administration is hell-bent

> on funding the ever-expanding use of

> mind-controlling, mind-numbing drugs. Your money

> will now go to fund hundreds of millions of dollars

> MORE for mental health schemes than last year's

> budget allowed for. [6] The American Psychiatric

> Association (which, by the way just LOVES what Bush

> is doing with your money!) boasts of the increase in

> funding which, of course , translates into more

> money for them and their pharmaceutical buddies, in

> their July issue of Advocacy News. The publication

> also mentions that the Bush administration is

> " appreciative " of their efforts to quash mass

> media's coverage of the negative aspects and abuses

> inherent in the New Freedom Commission.

>

> I'll leave you with the words of

> psychiatrist-inventor Steven Seigel: " There is still

> a segment of the population that has a profound

> mistrust of psychiatry. We need people to understand

> that we are not trying to do things to them but do

> things for them " .

>

> Footnotes:

>

> 1, British Medical Journal, Summer/ 2004

> 2, Sally Satel's First National Advisory Council

> Meeting/ Chamberlin, September, 2002/mindfreedom.org

>

> 3, mindfreedom.org

> 4, ibid

> 5, worstpills.org

> 6, APA Advocacy News, July/ 2004

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> © 2004 Mary Starrett -

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