KENDRA'S LAW A POOR FARSE! [MADNATION] STUFF: August 29, 1999 (fwd)
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NO FUNDING TO PAY FOR THE MANDATORY SERVICES, SO MORE PEOPLE WILL BE SERVED POORLY OR TURNSTILE THRU THE SYSTEM MORE FREQUENTLY AND STILL STAY SICK. ALSO, PATAKI RECENTLY HAS BEEN DUMPING MENTALLY ILL INMATES FROM RIKERS ISLAND INTO QUEENS (QUEENSBORO BRIDGE AT 3 AM) AND FROM ROCKLAND STATE HOSPITAL AND MANHATTAN PSYCHIATRIC CENTER IN A CYNICAL POWER-PLAY/BUDGET CUT OFFENSIVE AGAINST/ON THE HOSPITAL-WORKERS UNION 1199. COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVISM OR DECEITFUL DEMAGOGUERY: YER CHOICE. *Better Living Thru Better Living!* http://www.interport.net/~rugosa * Reply-To: MadNation Activism Announcement List MadNation STUFF www.madnation.org August 29, 1999 "People Working Together for Social Justice and Human Rights in Mental Health" Share this message freely Excerpts from copyright protected material are distributed for educational purposes only. These photos are profoundly disturbing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stimlje/s… tm Washington Post photographer Carol Guzy depicts Kosovo’s forgotten: the mentally ill patients of an institution who have no one to care for them Involuntary IOC became law in New York Friday with the signing of Kendra’s Law. POINTS TO PONDER **The man who pushed Kendra to her death HAD requested and been denied treatment **The new dollars attached to the bill represent less than a 1% increase in the Mental Health budget-and almost half of that is going to be diverted elsewhere. **Any money beyond what has been appropriated will be have to come out of dollars currently being spent on existing voluntary services. **All it takes to be an official second class citizen in New York now is a psychiatric diagnosis http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyKey=17770&category=F Pataki signs ‘Kendra’s Law’ as family looks on Albany — Statute is named for woman shoved in front of subway train, allegedly by a mentally ill man Nearly eight months after Kendra Webdale was pushed in front of a Manhattan subway train, "Kendra’s Law” was signed Friday in what officials called a first step to better help for New York’s mentally ill while stepping up protections for the public. Gov. George Pataki signed the bill as the family of the slain 32-year-old woman from Fredonia, about 60 miles southwest of Buffalo, crowded around to watch. The event was the capstone of intense legislative negotiations this session that were marked by a split in the mental health community over whether the measure will, in fact, better serve the more than 220,000 New Yorkers with psychiatric illnesses. Already, some mental health advocates are threatening a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the statute. The law, which takes effect immediately, allows judges to order mental health patients with a history of rejecting treatment to take medication or face a mandatory three-day hospital stay. If necessary, hospitals could keep patients longer.[.]" Read More About the Failed Attempt to Protect Our Rights in New York http://www.madnation.org/news/IOC/ http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/letters/lshara.html (follow the link to the original article cited in Vera’s letter) To the Editor: The debate over universities lobbying Congress to "earmark" money for research projects (front page, Aug. 24) is amusing in the wake of reports revealing how conflicts of interest have undermined scientific objectivity at academic institutions and how the integrity of data published in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals has often been tainted by pharmaceutical industry sponsorship ("Drug Trials Hide Conflicts for Doctors," front page, May 16). It hardly the fault of our elected officials if the scientific peer-review process has been undermined. We should blame the academic institutions themselves for opening their doors to commercially sponsored, industry-influenced research. VERA HASSNER SHARAV New York, Aug. 26, 1999 The writer is president, Citizens for Responsible Care and Research. An older article about Fuller Torrey http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/cover/1998/cover0116.html Brain Storm Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey took schizophrenia off the couch and into the lab. Now he spends his days at St. Elizabeths probing a single question: What makes people crazy? By By Stephanie Mencimer
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