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Old Dec 07, 2016, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by amandalouise View Post
from my understanding the act isnt about forcing consumers to take their medications.
Unless they "may be refusing to follow their doctor's orders"

or

"...for those with serious illness who won’t voluntarily comply..."

?

One of the people quoted in favor of this bill is "John Snook, executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center."

I have never heard of John Snook. I have heard of the "Treatment Advocacy Center" -- a brainchild, I think, of E. Fuller Torrey.

From what I have read by, and heard about Torrey, I don't see him as a really balanced person -- even though he is a psychiatrist.

No proofs here of what this bill is or will be interpreted as -- just some suspicions on my part. I think psychiatrists, and large groups of people even, can "go off the rails". I don't discount the possibility.

(By going off the rails, I mean more precisely, they can be driven by emotions of whose nature they are almost entirely unaware. I have seen it in myself, and therefore can study it. Doing things whose basic sources are unknown to one can lead down paths preventing success for oneself and sometimes disaster for others.)

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