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Recommendations

1. Government, criminal, educational, judicial and other social agencies should not rely on psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) and no legislation should use this as a basis for determining the mental state, competency, educational standard or rights of any individual.

2. Clinical and financial audits should be conducted of all government-run and private psychiatric facilities that receive government subsidies or insurance payments to ensure accountability and the compilation of statistics on admissions, treatment, and deaths, without breaching patient confidentiality.

3. Medical facilities must be established to replace coercive psychiatric institutions. These must have medical doctors on staff, medical diagnostic equipment, which non-psychiatric medical doctors can use to thoroughly examine and test for all underlying physical problems that may be manifesting as disturbed behavior. Government and private funds should be channeled into such programs and cut from abusive psychiatric institutions and programs that have proven not to work.

4. Legislation should prohibit the use of electroshock, psychosurgery, restraint procedures, mental health screening in schools, and involuntary commitment. The psychiatric and psychological sexual abuse of patients requires laws making this a criminal offense in every state.

5. Drug rehabilitation programs should be based on proven, workable results that return the addict to society, drug-free and productive within the community. Don’t accept programs that offer one drug, such as methadone, as a trade-off for another.

6. Establish rights for patients and their state and private insurance companies to receive refunds for mental health treatment which did not achieve the promised result or improvement, or which resulted in proven harm to the individual, thereby ensuring that responsibility lies with the individual practitioner and psychiatric facility rather than the government or its agencies.

7. Drug regulatory agencies should be directed not to approve any drug for use in a “mental disorder” that cannot be physically and scientifically proven to exist using proper medical testing such as, but not limited to, X-ray, scan, blood or urine test.

8. Mandatory toxicology should be implemented to determine whether anyone involved in a violent crime or murder was taking a psychiatric drug at the time and the relationship of psychiatric drugs and violence fully investigated.

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