The following article was taken from a posting on A-Infos to promote a Mad Pride day of action in July 2001
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MAD PRIDE'S DAY OF ACTION MONDAY JULY 9TH
BOLLOCKS TO COMPULSORY TREATMENT ORDERS!!
WHY COMPULSORY TREATMENT ORDERS ARE A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS.
COMPULSORY TREATMENT ORDERS WILL FORCE PEOPLE TO TAKE 'HEAVY' NEUROLEPTIC DRUGS WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL.
Remember the Poll Tax? When has coercion ever been beneficial? It has
always driven people underground. Psychiatric Patients have been campaigning
for over 750 years for the right to be treated as an equal, not as an
object of sympathy, but a fellow citizen with all the rights that go with
it. In our society, you've got the right to be a curry eating BNP Leader
but not to go 'Mad'. Being 'Mad', means forcibly being detained by the
State, at its whim and released when you're seen to conform.
Because Drug Companies conduct 85% of research, no wonder that 'treatment'
is now purely drugs. For NHS Patients, there's no therapy of 'bonking
celebrities in the Priory'. Infamous for their GM Foods, xeno-transplants,
(putting a monkey's head on a pig's body or vice versa), Novartis. Producers
of the 'wonder drug' for schizophrenia, Clozaril. Not-surprisingly, Novartis
have seen a market in the 'captive patient' on Compulsory Treatment Orders.
Ritalin, produced by Novartis, conveniently medicalises our kids for a
lifetime of prescribed chemicals.
Do drugs really deal with the problems? Short term, maybe, but in the
long term they cause further addictions. Valium, once thrown at every
Housewife in Britain, with the washing powder, is more addictive than
Heroin. MAD PRIDE is not anti-drugs but we are wary of who's pushing them.
Novartis made over £40 billion profit last year. Did they invest
that in your community?
There are many self-help groups all over the country where people have
managed to wean themselves of Psychiatric Drugs and lead successful lives.
These groups are mostly unfunded and unpublicised, because guess who controls
the funding?………….Drug Companies!
Whilst there is a child or pensioner in poverty, there will always be
………….….Tony Blair.
Whilst there are Psychiatric Patients, being forced to take drugs, there will always be……MAD PRIDE.