A new timeline in the fight for the rights of the Mentally Ill

President Bush: Screen all Americans

August 2004: President Bush said he will implement national plans created by psychiatric drug companies to screen every person in the USA for “mental illness,” reports the well-respected British Medical Journal.

APA Supresses Information On the Proposed Screenings in Mainstream Media (August 2004)

Excerpted from the APA’s own newsletter, 18 August 2004

“The release of the first iteration of the roadmap to operationalize the findings of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health is imminent.

“We will disseminate the document when it is unveiled. On a related note, the British Medical Journal, in anticipation of the roll-out, alleged in a disjointed story that the Bush administration will announce a plan to screen all Americans for mental disorders and
promote antidepressant and antipsychotic drug use — allegations which we are told are well beyond the scope of anything the administration has planned and which seem to stem from a psychiatric survivors group.

“The BMJ story has gained some traction in derivative reports on the internet, though mainstream media have not touched the story, in part thanks to APA’s work, for which the administration is appreciative.”

Proposed time released Psychiatric Drug Implants (PDI) are keyed for government approval 2006

The highly controversial, coersive exprimental psychiatric treatment, surgically-implantable discs capable of releasing neuroleptic psychiatric drugs for five months, and potentially up to a year, is up for review by the American Drug Association, 2006.

Critics of the drug say,“[The drugs] violate core principles of self-determination, empowerment and human rights.” The drugs minimally effect the neurotransmitters needed to be capable of decision making, judgement, and slow responsiveness in test subjects.

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