Psychiatric Bully Demands Forced Drug Treatment


Psychiatrist Torrey provides major funding for psychiatric research. He passed along $100 million to establish a genetic connection to mental illnesses, which are made up by consensus. How can there be any rational connection between mental illness and science?

Torrey says "we saw an increase in untreated mentally ill individuals on the streets in shelters and in prisons." Is there also an increase in persons with rashes and broken legs? Why is having a mental illness but not having a rash of concern to the "Royal We?" Torrey condones criminalizing mental illness as if persons accused of mental illness are violent and dangerous. Without due process protections Torrey and his control freak colleagues can take a person's freedom without probable cause and without having committed a crime.

The Court order to release patients from abusive group homes is the fault of the NY State Dept. of Mental Health, according to Torrey who says they failed to monitor the homes. But the homes are staffed by people who share Torrey's view of mental patients, i.e., that they need to be drugged and that they do not deserve Constitutional Rights.

Torrey believes that psychiatrists should speak for their clients because what the patients say is not reliable. That suggests that psychiatrists do not lie, are not greedy or sadistic. Psychiatrists are some of the biggest bullies among professionals second only to police.

Hypocritically Torrey accuses politicians of accepting campaign contributions from groups homes operators. As if psychiatrists and drug companies do not pay lobbyists millions to promote drug treatment. Who arranged for the laws that deny to persons accused of mental illness their Constitutional Rights to be secure in their person (Fourth Amendment)? Who wrote the laws making psychiatric diagnoses enforceable by the police power of the state?

Ignoring Constitutional Rights of persons accused of mental illness, Torrey suggests that the courts should increase mandatory psychiatric treatment and less freedom for individuals.

Torrey promotes drug treatment even if it has been shown to cause harm to persons who take the drugs. Torrey advocates for drug companies. He attacks the rights of persons accused of mental illness.

Psychiatric drugs do not cure illnesses. They hide symptoms, i.e., non conformist speech and behavior that conformist psychiatrists do not like or do not understand.

Torrey argues speciously saying, legal advocates eliminate forced treatment "in the name of civil rights;" but it is neither civil or right to leave "severely mentally ill individuals untreated and living on the street or in jail." He argues if no forced treatment then the person will end up on the street or in jail. That does not follow or make any sense. But it is good for business.

Promoting forced treatment he claims that persons who take medication make excellent neighbors. But those who don't, make bad neighbors. He ignores the fact that many people who take psychiatric drugs become violent and harm themselves and others. Torrey ignores those studies.

Torrey promotes Kendra's law which employed emotional response to an horrific crime to make forced drugging easy. Anything that increases drug usage Torrey promotes whether or not it is a violation of the Bill of Rights which is simply an inconvenience for psychiatric businessmen like Torrey.

Torre laments invoking "the mantra of civil rights" of mental patients over the civil rights of residents who are forced to live with thousands of untreated mentally ill individuals on the streets [. . .]" What about having to live with all of those persons of color and all of those women and all of those homosexuals? Why is it acceptable journalism to openly promote denying rights to persons with disabilities, but not to women, homosexuals and persons of color? Torrey shows his bigotry toward people he claims to be a protector of by forcing them to take chemicals into their bodies or else they must be denied their Constitutional Rights.

Joining his colleagues Torrey makes predictions and is never challenged or held accountable for his faulty predictions. Is this an innate ability or do they teach the future in psychiatry school?

Torrey blames the NY State Dept of Mental health for wasting money. Instead of promoting more funding for more drug treatment why doesn't the Dept. of Mental Health or Torrey urge funding for homes for the homeless and lawyers to open access to government services and public accommodations which would allow the alleged mentally ill to enjoy the same rights and privileges as normal people like Torrey.

Finally why does the New York Post publish this propaganda of the drug industry with no opposition expression to the use of humans for harmful businesses?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/it_mad_mad_world_YJgHsnCJIPggDJuoHEo9iL

It's a mad, mad world
A crazy court ruling means thousands of mentally ill will return to the streets of NYC
By E. FULLER TORREY
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:07 AM, September 13, 2009
Posted: 1:15 AM, September 13, 2009