-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 12/27/2000 11:11:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< Some of us are old enough to remember that it was the Kennedy brothers who
suddenly "discovered" that the mentally ill have "civil rights" including
the right not to take medication nor be held against their will. These
people were on the streets long before Regan was in office! I remember
seeing them in Chicago for the first time while there on business in the
very early 70's.
Nice try, though, as lots of people are actually too young to remember and
if you can blame something on the Republicans, even if they did not do it,
that is the name of the game. >>
Yes, and they were there a long time before the Kennedy brothers. Were the
Kennedy brothers responsible for closing the State establishments where these
people were held? The taking of medication while in an institution should
not be mandatory. Keeping everyone in a doze to make it easy on attendants
is not the purpose of medication which is supposed to help the patients.
Mental patients do have civil rights, and the right to take or not take
medication is one of them, as long as they are willing to stay within the
walls of a mental institution. It is only when they are walking and working
among the general public that proper medication should be mandatory. The
choice of incarceration or medication should be up to them. When Reagan shut
down the institutions where they were held for their own and everyone else's
protection, there was no longer a choice. In a society where case workers
cannot keep track of the children who are being killed by abusive parents or
adults, we certainly should not have to rely on case workers to suggest to
the mentally ill that it would be a nice thing if they took the medication
provided to them. We need the State institutions brought back. Prudy
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