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One in a series "Killing Christians Through Better
Medicine".
From: "Alex James" <alexjames11111@gmail.com>
To: "Alex James" <alexjames11111@gmail.com>
Subject: BUSH to children: SHUT UP AND TAKE YOUR DRUGS
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 20:54:21 +0300
SHUT UP AND TAKE YOUR DRUGS
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
� 2004 Mary Starrett - All Rights Reserved
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