HUMAN RIGHTS IN "MENTAL
HEALTH" NEWS BRIEFING
SEE http://www.MindFreedom.org
FOR UPDATES ON:
1) FORCED ELECTROSHOCK HEARINGS
2) PROJECT CENSORED AWARDS
MINDFREEDOM STORY AS ONE OF
"TOP TEN UNDER-REPORTED STORIES
OF 2001"!
3) NAMI SECRETS: WHAT *ELSE* IS
NAMI TRYING TO HIDE? UPDATE
ON "GLUE SCANDAL."
Brief summaries of these news
updates are below:
** 1) ** FORCED ELECTROSHOCK
HEARINGS FOR TWO PILGRIM
INMATES ARE SCHEDULED:
PAUL HENRI THOMAS HEARING ON FORCED ELECTROSHOCK
CONTINUES TODAY
The hearing of Paul Henri
Thomas continues today. It may
be the last day of the hearing. According to court
testimony Paul has already received 40 involuntary
electroshocks against his expressed wishes at
Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center in New York. The judge may
order another series of forced shocks.
For details and news updates about Paul's struggle see: http://www.MindFreedom.org
ADAM SZYSKO FORCED ELECTROSHOCK
HEARING SCHEDULED FOR NEXT
WEEK, THURS., MARCH 29, 2001
Twenty-five-year-old Adam
Szyszko is also struggling to
resist his forced electroshock at Pilgrim. Adam's sister,
Anna, said his spirits are stronger, he wants
to get out of Pilgrim, and he is more active in
his resistance. In Adam's case, the Temporary Restraining
Order -- agreed to by four judges -- is sticking.
Adam's hearing on forced electroshock is scheduled
for Thurs., March 29, 2001, slated for 10 am though
it's the second item on the docket so it may be
a little later. Recommended time to be there is 9:30
am. The hearing will be on the first floor of Brooklyn's
Appellate Division 2nd Dept., at 45 Monroe
Pl., Brooklyn, NY, USA.
A STATEMENT FROM ADAM'S FAMILY
Anna Szyszko, Adam's sister,
makes this public statement
via Support Coalition International:
"Adam has been in Pilgrim six months now, locked up like
a criminal. He hasn't received any treatment because
the hospital has nothing else to offer but ECT,
yet they are not willing to release him into the
hands of the family and an experienced psychologist
who is willing to treat Adam with psychotherapy.
It seems like it's not About Adam but about
power for Pilgrim State. The appeal is scheduled
for March 29th. Anyone who is able to attend
is welcome."
Besides Adam and Paul, at least two others inside Pilgrim Psychiatric
Center are also taking legal action to try
to stop forced electroshock against their wishes.
Coercion, fraud and force in the administration of electroshock
are a growing state-wide pattern in
facilities run by New York Office of Mental Health.
See http://www.MindFreedom.org
for updates.
** 2) ** MINDFREEDOM.ORG
ARTICLE WINS AS ONE OF PROJECT
CENSORED TOP TEN UNDER-REPORTED STORIES
OF 2001!
A story published in _Dendron_
by Support Coalition International
has officially won as one of the top ten most
under-reported stories of 2001. The award is from
the widely-respected Project Censored, based in Sonoma
State University in California. The article investigates
what the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
(NAMI) is actually doing with its millions of dollars of psychiatric
drug company donations.
The article is called "NAMI: The Story Behind the
Story." The piece
investigates NAMI's psychiatric drug company secret
slush fund. The investigation revealed that a top goal of
this drug company slush fund is to push a national campaign
of coerced at-home psychiatric drug deliveries of
their own products.... even into people's own living rooms,
in some cases under court order. The program, called
PACT, already operates state-wide in six states.
To read the winning article, updates, and background material
on coerced outpatient neuroleptic psychiatric drugging
and neuroleptic-induced structural brain changes,
see: http://www.MindFreedom.org
** 3) ** NAMI COVER-UPS GET
STICKER AND STICKIER
Massive psychiatric drug
company donations aren't
the only thing NAMI is trying to cover-up.
Read the latest about the "Glue Scandal." In this
outrageous censorship, the
board of directors of the California chapter of NAMI
has fired the editor of their journal, and has even glued
together thousands of their own journals to try to suppress
criticisms of E. Fuller Torrey's use of fraudulent statistics
in his forced drugging campaign, and psychiatric drug
related health hazards. NAMI members in California are
rebelling. The board of directors
of at least two county chapters of NAMI have written
official letters of protest about the censorship.
You can see their protest letters, censored text and a photo of
the glued together pages, at http://www.MindFreedom.org
... the glue-proof web
site.
DENDRITE is a public Internet
alert system about human rights in psychiatry, sponsored by
Support Coalition International, sending out notices to
thousands of concerned people, many of whom take ACTION NOW!
Support Coalition International is an independent non-profit
federation of more than 70 groups in 11 countries united to WIN
campaigns for human rights in the "mental health
system." For info on Support Coalition, see the web site: www.efn.org/~dendron
