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rmAnother one of those theoretically minor yet disturbing events in the new world:
Guy gets his bag searched boarding the ferry today. Person searching the bag tries to confiscate a book he has in it.
Read the post:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mephron/349969.html
Meanwhile:
"The New Freedom Initiative proposes to screen every American, including you, for mental illness. To this end, the president established a New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, to study the nation’s mental health delivery service and make a report. It’s interesting to note that many on the staff appointed to the Commission have served on the advisory boards of some of the nation’s largest drug companies."
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=830
Better mental health is a good thing, but I don't my government, or the pharmaceutical industry to be involved in the diagnosis process. I've spent the last 8 months doing media analysis on the pharmaceutical industry, and it scares the crap out of me.
Guy gets his bag searched boarding the ferry today. Person searching the bag tries to confiscate a book he has in it.
Read the post:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mephron/349969.html
Meanwhile:
"The New Freedom Initiative proposes to screen every American, including you, for mental illness. To this end, the president established a New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, to study the nation’s mental health delivery service and make a report. It’s interesting to note that many on the staff appointed to the Commission have served on the advisory boards of some of the nation’s largest drug companies."
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=830
Better mental health is a good thing, but I don't my government, or the pharmaceutical industry to be involved in the diagnosis process. I've spent the last 8 months doing media analysis on the pharmaceutical industry, and it scares the crap out of me.
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Date: 2004-08-11 04:17 pm (UTC)I could go on and on about the conspiracies between big media and their advertisers, but I won't.
Of course, I'm more frightened that this will mean everyone screened will have a government file and therefore, will be subject to all sorts of discrimination. Not to mention the profits made by Eli Lilly, which is the drug company that this has some major stakes in this.
(and since I am one who has lived with serious mental illness since I was a kid, I am even more frightened about someone getting into my medical records or even worse, giving me an official government diagnosis that is wrong and different from what I already have, and thus giving me Lilly drugs which are almost lethal to me).
I could go on and on, but I won't.