WHO 'Mental Health' Program Pushing Psychiatric Drugs

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Health Supreme Update: WHO 'Mental Health' Program Pushing

Psychiatric Drugs

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Health Supreme Update: WHO 'Mental Health' Program Pushing Psychiatric

Drugs

 

August 22, 2005

 

 

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The World Health Organization's report " Nations For Mental

Health " is ostensibly raising awareness on issues of mental

health, but the program seems to be designed to ensure

conformity and promote psychiatric drugs. The principal

sponsors of the program were Eli Lilly and Johnson and Johnson,

according to Vera Hassner Sharav of the ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN

RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) www.ahrp.org major producers of just

such conformity promoting psychotropic medications. According

to the report The World Bank's World Development Report

1993 publishes startling statistics on the global burden on

mental disorders. It is estimated that 8 percent of the global

burden of disability and morbidity in the world is due to

mental and neurological disorders. Adding behaviour-related

illnesses, the figure rises to 42 percent.

 

and

 

WHO estimates that at any one time, as many as one in four of

the world's population suffer from different forms of mental,

behavioural and neurological disorders, including affective disorders,

alcohol and drug abuse, epilepsy, dementias, mental retardation,

schizophrenia and stress-related disorders.

 

This WHO initiative precedes the more recent US program to

establish " evidence based guidelines " for mental health " treatment " ,

the Texas Medication Algorithm, and its companion, the TeenScreen

program. These US initiatives are designed to make sure everyone who

does not conform, including children, receive their drugs.

 

" Mental Health " has become synonymous for drugging people so they

" fit into society " , to eliminate those elements that are a

disturbance. We can intuit that much from Gro Harlem Brundtland's

statement, who said that

 

mental disorders are one of the most significant contributors

to the global burden of disease. And, she underlines, " All predictions

are that the future will bring an exponential increase in mental

problems. The most important reasons include the ageing of the

population, exacerbating social problems and unrest, including the

rising number of persons affected by violent conflicts, civil wars and

disasters and the growing number of displaced persons. "

 

My suggestion to the UN would be to eliminate the real problems,

such as violent conflicts, civil wars and disasters and the growing

number of displaced persons, rather than continue our sorry state of

affairs and merely drug people into better accepting the current state

of affairs. Perhaps, if psychiatric drugs really did work, one could

tolerate a program of this kind as a temporary solution, but since

these drugs do increase both the number of suicides and the occurrence

of abominable violence, such as shooting sprees by " unbalanced

individuals " , the UN's love for drug treatments and its motivations

must be closely examined.

 

Here is Vera Hassner Sharav's comment:

 

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The credibility of the World Health Organization (WHO) is in doubt

since its financial ties to Eli Lilly and Johnson and Johnson.

 

The reach of Big Pharma is indeed all-encompassing. NOTHING

written in the mental health field by professional associations, such

as the American Psychiatric Association, or government agencies, such

as the National Institute of Mental Health, or " non-profit " NGOs such

as the Mental Health Association, or even the WHO is to be trusted

because all of these organizations are under the influence of Big Pharma.

 

The Final Report -- " Nations for Mental Health " -- issued by the

WHO Mental Health Policy and Service Development, Department of Mental

Health and Substance Dependence (2002), was underwritten by Eli Lilly

and Johnson & Johnson.

 

Acknowledgements

 

WHO gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Nations for

Mental Health by the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation, the Johnson and

Johnson Corporate Contributions Europe Committee, the Government of

Italy, the Government of Japan, the Government of Norway, the

Government of Australia and the Brocher Foundation.

 

The introduction states:

 

Nations for Mental Health was to pursue the following goals:

 

1. To raise awareness of the people and governments of the

world to the effects of mental health problems and substance abuse on

the psychosocial well–being of the world's underserved populations.

 

2. To stimulate innovative approaches to the promotion of

mental health and the prevention and control of mental disorders.

 

3. To generate the human capital able to lead innovation in

the mental health promotion and care provision.

 

4. To promote service development at country level through

technical demonstration projects.

 

A three-step approach was envisaged to create a process leading to

put mental health in the political agenda.

 

The first step was to increase the general awareness of the

importance of mental health through a series of key high profile

events to focus public attention.

 

Second, it was planned that efforts would be devoted to building

the will of the key political authorities to participate.

 

Third, and finally, efforts were directed towards securing

political commitments by decision-makers (e.g., legislative measures,

policy undertakings, and performance of specific initiatives in favour

of mental health, such as a campaign to destigmatize mental

disorders). Alliances with the scientific community and policy–makers

were seen as achievable in the context of demonstration projects and

through the effects of awareness-raising efforts. "

 

Nations for Mental Health is, therefore, a covert promotional

marketing tool masquerading as an objective credible source of

information.

 

**Reminder: Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson are not charities.

 

Lilly and J & J are in business to increase drug sales and

profits., They manufacture blockbuster drugs such as: Prozac,

Cymbalta, Straterra, Zyprexa (Lilly) and Risperdal (J & J).

 

When pharmaceutical companies provide provides " gifts " to

individual physicians, government or Not fror profit organizations --

they do so for but one purpose only: That purpose is to promote their

drugs so that sales will increase. Drug manufacturers love to fund

" anti-stigma " campaigns -- thereby ensuring an ever increasing

customer base.

 

Every one who accepts financial support from a pharmaceutical

company --no matter what the stated " educational " goal -- becomes a

promoter of the company's drugs -- whether the receipients acknowledge

that fact or not.

 

Vera Hassner Sharav

212-595-8974

veracare

 

 

See also:

 

Top-selling drug linked to increased suicide risk

 

Antidepressant Seroxat linked to suicide attempts among adults

 

August 24 DC Protest - Activists Against TeenScreen Will Attend

 

James Torlakson: Look what Celexa caused Elizabeth to do

 

Psychiatric Drugs: An Assault on the Human Condition

Interview by Terry Messman

 

Freedom Center: Articles, Groups, Links and Resources

 

Why are atypical drug users angry?

 

Warning: Psychiatric Treatments For Depression May Be Hazardous To

Your Health

 

LA Times: Are we all going mad, or are the experts crazy?

PSYCHIATRIC researchers recently estimated that half of the

American population has had or will have a mental disorder at some

time in their life. A generation ago, by contrast, only a small

percentage of the American population was considered mentally ill. Are

we all going mad?

 

Street Spirit: Psychiatric Abuses and the Homeless Community

 

 

 

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Sepp

 

 

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