This event is one example of the pervasive pattern of agency policy, contrary to the rights of persons with disabilities. The DMH is effectively a lobbyist for the drug industry and the psychiatric industry. Human services professionals speak for their clients. Seldom do courts allow the person with a disability to speak for him or herself. This can be seen every two years when the MA legislature has budget hearings. The human services industry brings persons with disabilities to the state house to lament any proposed cuts to their budgets. But the rest of the 23 months human services professionals remain silent about abuses of their clients. What is the rationale for the DMH? If it is to protect vulnerable persons they obviously fail to do that. It is more likely to promote drug treatment, as the lobbyists they are.
[From article]
"The agency [DMH] has defended its efforts to arrange the court-ordered abortion for the schizophrenic woman, 32, saying the request was made in the patient’s best interest and at the behest of her parents and doctors.
http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1399109
Pol probes DMH role in sterilization case
By O’Ryan Johnson and John Zaremba
Friday, January 27, 2012
Boston Herald
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