Harvard University Promotes Drug Treatment Ignoring Danger

Harvard University Promotes Drug Treatment Ignoring Danger

Harvard administrators promote psychiatric treatment for students. (ADITI BALAKRISHNA and RACHEL A. STARK, "Mental Health Week Kicks Off, Harvard Crimson, February 25, 2008) They do not address the pervasive animosity toward persons with "a history of mental illness." Nor do they address the repeated reports of persons who stop taking psychiatric drugs who are charged with violent crime. If taking the drugs causes a person who stops taking them to become violent why begin taking them? Psychiatry treats imaginary illnesses that only psychiatrists can see.
Fund raising for the Bazelon Center helps promote more drug treatment. They see treatment as a civil right. What other form of treatment employs the police powers to force treatment? Bazelon promotes the notion of parity between medical illness and psychiatric illness. But only psychiatric illness is blamed for violence. Only psychiatric medical records are deemed unworthy of privacy laws. Parity increases the client base.
Drug companies have all positions covered. The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) is a lobbyist for and funded by the drug companies promoting drug treatment masquerading as a patient advocate. They advocate for drug treatment not for patients.They call this fighting stigma.
Psychiatry is a means of social control without due process. They do harm in the name of good. Cleverly the co-chair of Harvard's Human Rights Committee is a former psychiatric researcher, who conducted experiments on mental patients. This is how convoluted the notion of civil rights is at Harvard.

Roy Bercaw - Editor ENOUGH ROOM

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=522113

Mental Health Week Kicks Off
Published On 2/25/2008 2:30:17 AM
By ADITI BALAKRISHNA and RACHEL A. STARK
Harvard Crimson Staff Writers