SHUT UP AND TAKE YOUR DRUGS

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

SHUT UP AND TAKE YOUR DRUGS

By Starrett

August 22, 2004

NewsWithViews.com

President 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 enstein-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 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 . The real one. The Virginia medical doctor

who's life story was made into a popular movie starring Robin 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 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 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 Starrett -

[Guest guest]

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

SHUT UP AND TAKE YOUR DRUGS

By Starrett

August 22, 2004

NewsWithViews.com

President 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 enstein-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 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 . The real one. The Virginia medical doctor

who's life story was made into a popular movie starring Robin 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 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 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 Starrett -

[Guest guest]

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

SHUT UP AND TAKE YOUR DRUGS

By Starrett

August 22, 2004

NewsWithViews.com

President 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 enstein-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 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 . The real one. The Virginia medical doctor

who's life story was made into a popular movie starring Robin 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 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 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 Starrett -

[Guest guest]

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

SHUT UP AND TAKE YOUR DRUGS

By Starrett

August 22, 2004

NewsWithViews.com

President 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 enstein-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 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 . The real one. The Virginia medical doctor

who's life story was made into a popular movie starring Robin 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 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 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 Starrett -