Jaffe claims his think tank is "unbiased." But he lists his close association with the Alliance for Mental Illness a drug company front lobbying organization that promotes drug treatment. Drug companies provide about $3 million each year to NAMI to promote drug treatment which is a known cause of violence and suicide. Jaffe boasts of strong support for E. Fuller Torrey whose zealous love for psychiatry includes forced treatment for all persons accused of mental illness. Torrey believes all persons accused of mental illness are dangerous and need to be forceably drugged. Jaffe and his drug company thugs promote denying freedom to citizens and increased government control over humans. The criminal justice system provides enough jurisdiction, for criminals like Curtis Forteau. Jaffe calls for arbitrary abuse of police powers by misguided psychiatrists and psychologists. More psychiatry in the criminal justice system will only corrupt it further. Jaffe argues for economic benefits for drug companies, not a safer society.
Link to Jaffe's "think tank"
http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/about.html
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/ny_real_madness_udOxAK56q73bcQxvz8IJXO
NY’s real madness
Ignoring mental illness
By D.J. JAFFE
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:26 AM, July 20, 2012
Posted: 11:14 PM, July 19, 2012
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