On Mon, 13 May 1996, Jared Blackburn wrote:
> I am concerned greatly by the abuse of psychiatry. Often, it seems,
> perfectly well-adjusted indivduals are subjected to imprisonment in
> hospitals and to ridiculous drugging - especially anti-psychoic/major
> tranquilizers -
Thank you, Jared, for breaking the silence on this! The neuroscience
community (via the Dana Foundation/Dana Alliance) has declared this
week to be "Brain Awareness Week."
As part of that week, our grassroots human rights alliance, Support
Coalition, has declared a BRAIN BOYCOTT. Yes, this is partly tongue-
in-cheek, but it also has a serious message. Namely, the neuroscience
community is being very misused by the drug industry. People
need to speak out about proven forms of brain damage CAUSED by
some of the main psychiatric procedures, which are often done
forcibly and/or coercively.
Below is an alert about the BRAIN BOYCOTT. For some reason, perhaps
technical (I hope!), it didn't make it on to the bionet.neuroscience
newsgroup, which is the most relevant place for it on the Internet. Also,
on other lists, that newsgroup was dropped. To remedy the situation, below
is a copy of the BRAIN BOYCOTT ALERT. There's a web site listed for more
information.
Please copy and post the below to people who may be interested.
DENDRITE: YOU can join BRAIN BOYCOTT *free*!
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human rights in psychiatry alert 5 May 1996
from Support Coalition <dendron at efn.org> -- REDISTRIBUTE!
YOU CAN JOIN PAUL KRASSNER IN A FREE "BRAIN BOYCOTT"!
by David Oaks/Support Coalition co-coordinator
As part of national Brain Awareness Week May 12 to 18,
1996 you're invited to join author and stand-up
comedian Paul Krassner in a BRAIN BOYCOTT and refuse
to donate your brain -- whether "normal" or "not" -- to
neuroscience. Just phone the toll free number for the
McLean "Brain Bank" listed at the bottom of this message.
Call any time, any day -- 24 hours a day, it's always on.
But especially call on May 15, 1996, in honor of Wavy
Gravy's 60th birthday!
For more info check out the BRAIN BOYCOTT web site:
http://www.efn.org/~dendron/boycott.html
Why a BRAIN BOYCOTT? Because neuroscientists as a rule
are remaining silent and refusing to alert the public
about a documented international epidemic of brain
damage caused by the major psychiatric procedures, such
as electroshock and neuroleptic drugs. A BRAIN BOYCOTT
may just get their attention, since they need brains.
The BRAIN BOYCOTT will also help your brain feel *good*,
because it's part of the official Support Coalition "Heal
Normality, Naturally!" campaign. Support Coalition is a
100 percent independent alliance of 37 grassroots human
rights and mutual support groups.
BRAIN BOYCOTT BRIEFING:
An Associated Press article explained that one of the two
biggest "Brain Banks" in the USA desperately needs our
brains. The "mental health" division of the Brain Tissue
Resource Center has a shortage even though they stock
about 1,000 brains -- about half they even call "normal,"
and half "schizophrenic," etc. This Brain Bank is at
Harvard's major psychiatric research institution, McLean
Hospital, which is on a luxurious Belmont, Mass. estate.
Counterculture hero Paul Krassner invites everyone --
"normal" or not -- to join psychiatric survivors in a
BRAIN BOYCOTT. This is an ongoing action, but there is an
actual mainstream "Brain Awareness Week" promoted by
neuroscientists. We want the BRAIN BOYCOTT to be officially
included as one of the activities. Sounds fun, right? Please
"snowball" this by forwarding and posting copies.
BUT THERE'S A SERIOUS SIDE OF THE BRAIN BOYCOTT :|
Some neuroscientists repeatedly hold news conferences
to trumpet pseudoscientific theories about our "mental
disorders," tracing the cause to our alleged genetically,
biochemically "broken brains." This wins media... and
grant money... and taxpayer millions, especially since the
federal government has named this the "Decade of the
Brain." But where are the voices of dissident
neuroscientists? Their profession is being as misused as
atomic science was in the 1950's. Whistleblowers could
warn the public about documented brain damage caused
by long-term psychiatric drugging & electroshock.
Neuroscientists in this field know that recent research
absolutely proves that long-term neuroleptics --
psychiatry's main superpowerful drugs for the last 40
years -- can cause harmful brain changes, at times
permanent brain changes, easily visible to scientists. You
may recognize neuroleptics (also called antipsychotics or
major tranquilizers) by their brand names, such as
Thorazine, Haldol, Prolixin, etc. -- or outside the USA as
Largactil, Serenace, Permitil, etc. [Warning: Sudden
withdrawal can trigger a drug-induced "rebound" effect
resulting in emotional problems far worse than before
the drugging ever even began!]
Support Coalition is pro-choice. Many Support Coalition
members choose to be on neuroleptics. But we all agree
with the Nuremberg Code, one of the few laws globally
consensed upon, that flawed informed consent in
medicine -- especially when the procedure is coerced or
forced, involving a potentially irreversible intrusive
experimental procedure, for the purpose of state control
of behavior and thoughts -- is immoral and illegal. Silence
is complicity.
STOP NAMI's "MILLION NEEDLE MARCH"!!!
The mind industry has launched a "Chemical Crusade" to
force people to "stay on their meds" by any means
necessary. While many on the Internet are fascinated by
vague speculative fringe rumors of "mind control," forced
psychiatric drugging is a FACT that is overt, proven,
widespread, growing rapidly... and is generally overlooked.
Inside institutions, forced psychiatric drugging is
common, usually with a "gooning," in which the subject is
held down in solitary confinement and injected. But these
forced druggings -- and varieties of coerced drugging --
have moved OUTSIDE THE INSTITUTIONAL WALLS TO A
COMMUNITY NEAR YOU. Who's next?
There are many ways that psychiatry pressures people to
"take their meds," such as threatening loss of food benefits,
home, job. But now the trend is for the mental health
system to use blatant court orders to force people living
at home or in a shelter to report every few weeks to a
mental health clinic for an injection of special type of
neuroleptic, such as Prolixin or Haldol (sometimes called
Permitil or Serenace, outside the USA). These "depot"
slow-release injections pack a wallop that can last two,
four or more weeks... until the next court-ordered forced
injection... and the next... for years and years.
These court-ordered forced neuroleptic injections in the
community -- generally called "Involuntary Outpatient
Commitment" (IOC) -- are spreading rapidly and
internationally. An organization with close ties to the
drug industry, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
(NAMI) is now pushing for changes in USA law which they say
could bring IOC -- and forced neuroleptic injections -- to
ONE MILLION AMERICANS! Again, this isn't some
speculative conspiracy theory -- NAMI has openly called
for this Chemical Crusade in Congressional hearings, in
the Washington Post, in the New York Times, and in
psychiatry's official publications.
What's worst is that these drugs can kill. Neuroleptics, it
is totally documented, can lead to choking, heart
problems, etc. During heat waves, it's often people on
neuroleptics who die. Neuroleptics are also directly linked
to serious chronic illnesses, such as diabetes and even
breast cancer. Perhaps the impact of the neuroleptics can
help explain why people diangosed as "seriously mentally
ill" have a lifespan 10 to 15 years shorter than others,
according to a federally-funded mortality study. This
chemical crusade is mass murder. It is fascism and,
historically, first they actually came for the mental
patients. (See P. Breggin's book, _WAR AGAINST CHILDREN_.)
"CAN'T WE ALL LIGHTEN UP?"
Yes, this is a heavy subject, but the psychiatric survivors
liberation movement -- now 25 years old -- has learned
to use humor to lighten the load. The BRAIN BOYCOTT is
part of a "Heal Normality Naturally" campaign, to "turn
the clipboards" on what's called "normal." Celebrities
ranging from Lily Tomlin to Wavy Gravy have endorsed
the Support Coalition "Heal Normality" campaign.
Now Paul Krassner, editor of _The Realist_, suggests
you join him in a most bizarre activity: A BRAIN BOYCOTT.
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THREE E-Z STEPS FOR YOU TO JOIN THE BRAIN BOYCOTT!
1. PHONE TOLL FREE IN THE USA: Give psychiatry a piece
of your mind, not your brain:
Call 1-800-BRAIN-BANK (272-4622) -- on 24 hours a day!
Politely say, "I'm joining the BRAIN BOYCOTT. I refuse to
donate my brain, until you issue a public statement of
concern on brain damage by psychiatry."
Or you can write:
Brain Bank, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
2. E-MAIL TO BRAIN AWARENESS WEEK: You can politely
encourage the organizers of "Brain Awareness Week" (the
Dana Alliance) to include the "BRAIN BOYCOTT" as an
official part of their activities:
E-mail <dabiinfo at danany.dana.org> with a polite message:
"I encourage the Dana Alliance to include the BRAIN
BOYCOTT as part of official Brain Awareness Week
activities. Neuroscientists need to blow the whistle on
psychiatric-induced brain damage. Until neuroscientists
speak out on this catastrophe, I refuse to donate my brain."
3. CHECKLIST FOR MORE ACTIVITY ON THE INTERNET:
** Check out the BRAIN BOYCOTT web site:
http://www.efn.org/~dendron/boycott.html
** Copy and post this message to appropriate places and
people on the Internet. Join in newsgroup discussions.
** Join the 24-hour laboratory, desperately searching for
cures for "Normality," official headquarters the BRAIN
BOYCOTT. This is the "Heal Normality Naturally" e-mail
list, where more than 100 concerned, bizarre and
frequently-funny folks are trading ideas and support. To
join the HEALNORM list, just e-mail to
<majordomo at efn.org> with these two words in your
message:
join healnorm
** To receive read-only low-frequency human rights
messages such as this one, join the DENDRITE e-mail list.
Just e-mail to <majordomo at efn.org> with these two words:
subscribe dendrite
** For more information about Support Coalition, and its
publication _Dendron News_, e-mail to: <dendron at efn.org>
** Or check out the WWW home page for Support Coalition
and _Dendron News_, where you can automatically join
Support Coalition and its mailing lists, find a unique
list of other web site links, and -- soon -- participate
in a live message board discussion:
http://www.efn.org/~dendron/
Gotta go, "normals" are destroying Earth... and our brains!
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