Addictions & Corrections with Gabor Maté

"What is it that the correctional service actually corrects? In my view very little...and...the justice system is completely criminal and it should be studied..." So begins a provocative presentation by trauma and addiction treatment expert, Gabor Maté, M.D. While working for two decades on Vancouver's Downtown East Side, Gabor saw how the purely medical model of addiction theory fails to take into account the effects of trauma and the biopsychosocial conditions of human beings as they live in relationship with others. He argues that current Canadian social and criminal policy exacerbate and entrench addiction, criminal behaviour and human suffering. He calls for social policy, medical training and criminal justice to become more fully aligned with the current science and understanding of addiction and healing. Ting Forum on Justice Policy co-sponsored by The School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, the Correctional Service of Canada, and the Department of Criminology at Douglas College Buy the DVD at http://www.heartspeakproductions.ca


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Part Two Dr. Gabor Maté is joined by Ray Corrado (Simon Fraser University, School of Criminology), Tim Veresh (The John Howard Society of the Lower Mainland, BC), and Sav Bains (The Correctional Service of Canada [CSC]), to continue the dialogue on addictions and corrections. Underlying the discussion of the treatment of addictions in the prison environment is an awareness that new and impending crime legislation will result in increased federal and provincial prison populations. To implement these changes, the federal government has committed Canadians to spending 11 billion dollars for expanded prison infrastructure.
Tim Veresh and Sav Bains estimate that eighty percent of those incarcerated in Canada suffer from some kind of substance abuse problem. Yet, Sav notes, CSC earmarks a maximum of 2.8% of its budget for basic cognitive-behavioural intervention programs, its main vehicle for delivering correctional and rehabilitative programming. CSC policy allows them to address an addiction or substance abuse problem only if the problem was deemed to be directly linked to the crime that led to incarceration. Consequently many people leave prison without addressing the problem of addiction or its root cause.
Sav projects that CSC will need to rely more heavily on volunteers and chaplaincy, not only to deal with the deeper psychological issues and effects of addiction, but also to assist with rehabilitation and reintegration.
Ray Corrado suggests that, short of a full revolution, piecemeal work in integrated diagnostics and delivery systems hold the most promise, especially if focused on health, education, early social interventions and information sharing across agencies.
Dr. Maté points out that virtually all the social problems associated with illegal drugs are a result of criminalizing drug use, and that where decriminalization of drug use has been instituted, there are marked decreases in crime and social problems generally associated with drug use.
The key to addressing social and personal effects of addiction is to practice compassion, Maté insists. If social institutions overlook this fact, they foster ongoing suffering rather than healing.

Marketing da Loucura - Estaremos Todos Insanos?

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CCHR : Comissão dos Cidadãos para os Direitos Humanos : http://www.cchr.org/pt

Documentário produzido pela CCHR expondo os erros cometidos pelos psiquiatras aliados da indústria dos medicamentos, que visam unicamente o lucro financeiro, que seus princípios e fundamentos carecem de embasamento, e seus postulados são facilmente contestáveis pois se baseiam na mentira e no engodo.

O marketing da loucura - Psiquiatria obscura - MVL

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CCHR: Comissão dos Cidadãos para os Direitos Humanos: http://www.cchr.org/pt

Documentário produzido pela CCHR expondo os erros cometidos pelos psiquiatras aliados da indústria dos medicamentos, que visam unicamente o lucro financeiro, que seus princípios e fundamentos carecem de embasamento, e seus postulados são facilmente contestáveis pois se baseiam na mentira e no engodo.

Manual de Diagnóstico e Estatístico : A Farsa Mais Mortífera da Psiquiatria

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Visite o site da CCHR (http://www.cchr.pt).

Uma farsa pseudo-científica elaborada...
São 943 páginas e lista 374 "distúrbios" mentais.

É a base para a lista de distúrbios mentais na Classificação Internacional de Doenças, usada em todo o mundo.

E embora pese menos de 2 quilos, a sua influência invade todos os aspectos da sociedade moderna: os nossos governos, os nossos tribunais, os nossos militares, os nossos média e as nossas escolas.

Usando-o, os psiquiatras podem obrigá-lo a tomar drogas psiquiátricas, retirar-lhe os seus filhos e tirar as suas liberdades mais preciosas.

É o Manual de Diagnóstico e Estatístico de Doenças Mentais, e é o motor que impele uma indústria psiquiátrica de 330 mil milhões de dólares.

Mas haverá alguma solução por detrás do DSM? Ou não é nada mais do que uma farsa pseudo-científica elaborada?

Os criadores dos documentários de Lucros de Matar, O Marketing de Loucura e Erro Mortal, documentaram a verdade chocante da farsa mais mortífera por detrás da psiquiatria.

Making a Killing : The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging

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Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure.

The cost in human terms is even greater-these drugs now kill an estimated 42,000 people every year.

And the death count keeps rising. Containing more than 175 interviews with lawyers, mental health experts, the families of victims and the survivors themselves, this riveting documentary rips the mask off psychotropic drugging and exposes a brutal but well-entrenched money-making machine.

Before these drugs were introduced in the market, people who had these conditions would not have been given any drugs at all.

So it is the branding of a disease and it is the branding of a drug for a treatment of a disease that did not exist before the industry made the disease.

Source : http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/making-a-killing-the-untold-story-of-psychotropic-drugging/

FRONTLINE : The Medicated Child

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In recent years, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of children being diagnosed with serious psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications that are just beginning to be tested in children. The drugs can cause serious side effects, and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. "It's really to some extent an experiment, trying medications in these children of this age," child psychiatrist Dr. Patrick Bacon tells FRONTLINE. "It's a gamble. And I tell parents there's no way to know what's going to work."

In The Medicated Child, FRONTLINE producer Marcela Gaviria confronts psychiatrists, researchers and government regulators about the risks, benefits and many questions surrounding prescription drugs for troubled children. The biggest current controversy surrounds the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Formerly called manic depression, bipolar disorder was long believed to exist only in adults. But in the mid-1990s, bipolar in children began to be diagnosed at much higher rates, sometimes in kids as young as 4 years old. "The rates of bipolar diagnoses in children have increased markedly in many communities over the last five to seven years," says Dr. Steven Hyman, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health. "I think the real question is, are those diagnoses right? And in truth, I don't think we yet know the answer."

Like many of the 1 million children now diagnosed with bipolar, 5-year-old Jacob Solomon was initially believed to suffer from an attention deficit disorder. His parents reluctantly started him on Ritalin, but over the next five years, Jacob would be put on one drug after another. "It all started to feel out of control," Jacob's father, Ron, told FRONTLINE. "Nobody ever said we can work with this through therapy and things like that. Everywhere we looked it was, 'Take meds, take meds, take meds.'"

Over the years, Jacob's multiple medications have helped improve his mood, but they've also left him with a severe tic in his neck which doctors are having trouble fully explaining. "We're dealing with developing minds and brains, and medications have a whole different impact in the young developing child than they do in an adult," says Dr. Marianne Wamboldt, the chief of psychiatry at Denver Children's Hospital. "We don't understand that impact very well. That's where we're still in the Dark Ages."

DJ Koontz was diagnosed with bipolar at 4 years old, after his temper tantrums became more frequent and explosive. He was recently prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs. "It is a little worrisome to me because he is so young," says DJ's mother, Christine. "If he didn't take it, though, I don't know if we could function as a family. It's almost a do-or-die situation over here." DJ's medicines seem to be helping him in the short run, but the longer-term outlook is still uncertain. "What's not really clear is whether many of the kids who are called bipolar have anything that's related to this very well-studied disorder in adults," says Dr. Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health. "It's not clear that people with that adult illness started with what we're now calling bipolar in children. Nor is it clear that the kids who have this disorder are going to grow up to have what we used to call manic-depressive illness in adulthood."

While some urge caution when it comes to bipolar in children, FRONTLINE talks with others who argue that we should intervene with drug treatments at even younger ages for children genetically predisposed to the disorder. "The theory is that if you get in early, before the first full mood episode, then perhaps we can delay the onset to full mania," says Dr. Kiki Chang of Stanford University. "And if that's the case, perhaps finding the right medication early on can protect a brain so that these children never do progress to full bipolar disorder."

Source : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/etc/synopsis.html

The Marketing of Madness : Are We All Insane?

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The Marketing of Madness is the definitive documentary on the psychiatric drugging industry. Here is the real story of the high income partnership between psychiatry and drug companies that has created an $80 billion psychotropic drug profit centre.

But appearances are deceiving. How valid are psychiatrists’ diagnoses – and how safe are their drugs? Digging deep beneath the corporate veneer, this three-part documentary exposes the truth behind the slick marketing schemes and scientific deceit that conceal dangerous and often deadly sales campaigns.

In this film you’ll discover that… Many of the drugs side effects may actually make your ‘mental illness’ worse. Psychiatric drugs can induce aggression or depression. Some psychotropic drugs prescribed to children are more addictive than cocaine. Psychiatric diagnoses appears to be based on dubious science. Of the 297 mental disorders contained with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, none can be objectively measured by pathological tests.

Mental illness symptoms within this manual are arbitrarily assigned by a subjective voting system in a psychiatric panel. It is estimated that 100 million people globally use psychotropic drugs.

The Marketing of Madness exposes the real insanity in our psychiatric ‘health care’ system: profit-driven drug marketing at the expense of human rights.

This film plunges into an industry corrupted by corporate greed and delivers a shocking warning from courageous experts who value public health over dollar.

Source : http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/marketing-of-madness-are-we-all-insane/

DSM - Le coup de poker le plus funeste de la psychiatrie

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Le Manuel Diagnostique & Statistique (DSM) : 374 "troubles" et .... Zéro guérisons. Une imposture pseudoscientifique complexe...

Il fait 943 pages et énumère 374 "troubles" mentaux. C'est sur lui qu'est fondée la liste des troubles mentaux de la Classification Internationale des Maladies, utilisée dans le monde entier.
Et bien qu'il ne pèse qu'un peu plus de deux kilos, son influence se répand dans tous les secteurs de la société moderne: nos gouvernements, nos tribunaux, nos armées, nos médias et nos écoles.
Avec lui, les psychiatres peuvent imposer l'administration de psychotropes, saisir votre enfant et même vous priver de vos libertés personnelles les plus précieuses.
Il s'agit du Manuel diagnostique et statistique de la psychiatrie (DSM), la locomotive qui mène une industrie psychiatrique de 330 milliards de dollars.
Mais le DSM repose-t-il sur des preuves ? Ou n'est-il qu'une imposture pseudoscientifique complexe ?
Produit par les créateurs des documentaires primés "Profits macabres", "Le marketing de la folie" et "Erreur fatale", voici la vérité choquante pour mettre en plein jour le coup de poker le plus funeste de la psychiatrie;

Profits macabres - L'histoire cachée des drogues psychiatriques

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Big Pharma's Big Fines - ProPublica : http://www.propublica.org/special/big-pharmas-big-fines 
GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay a $3 billion fine

Les drogues psychiatriques. C'est une histoire de gros sous: des psychotropes qui alimentent une industrie psychiatrique de 330 milliards de dollars, sans le moindre traitement efficace. Le coût en vies humaines est encore plus dévastateur: ces drogues psychiatriques tuent à l'heure actuelle près de 42000 personnes par an. Et le bilan ne cesse d'empirer.

Ce documentaire prenant, qui contient plus de 175 interviews, avec des avocats, des experts de la santé mentale, des familles de victimes et d'anciens patients rescapés, révèle l'horreur des drogues psychiatriques et dénonce une entreprise commerciale très lucrative, sans pitié et bien huilée.

Source : http://www.droitshumains.ca/dossiers/profits-macabres-histoire-cachee-des-drogues-psychiatriques/

Le Marketing de la Folie

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« La psychiatrie est probablement la force la plus destructive qui ait affecté la société les soixante dernières années. »
Thomas Szasz, Professeur honoraire en psychiatrie

Le marché des psychotropes rapporte gros. L'alliance entre la psychiatrie et les firmes pharmaceutiques leur a permis de réaliser plus de 80 milliards de dollars de ventes de psychotropes. Mais les apparences sont trompeuses. Que valent les diagnostics psychiatriques, et jusqu'à quel point ces psychotropes sont-ils sans danger?

Ce documentaire révèle les faits derrière le vernis social d'un marketing habile et soi-disant scientifique qui dissimule une campagne de vente de produits dangereux et parfois fatals. Aux yeux des psychiatres et du DMS, le manuel des diagnostiques psychiatriques, nous sommes tous fous, sans exception.

Articles reliés :
http://www.droitshumains.ca/dossiers/profits-macabres-histoire-cachee-des-drogues-psychiatriques/

http://www.droitshumains.ca/nouvelles/big-pharma-invention-de-maladies/

http://www.droitshumains.ca/nouvelles/la-semaine-de-la-sante-mentale-est-au-benefice-de-qui/

http://www.droitshumains.ca/nouvelles/protegez-vous-etudes-biaisees-marketing-des-maladies/

http://www.droitshumains.ca/dossiers/psychiatrie-dependance-drogues/