C.E.P.T.A.
The CAMPAIGN for EFFECTIVE PREVENTION and TREATMENT of ADDICTION.
There is no way possible whereby the
psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries could have achieved their controlling
position in the drug education and addiction treatment fields by virtue of any
success in handling these fields, because their record is one of ever
escalating failure. Nor have they
achieved their domination by accident.
It is political manipulation, overt
and covert lobbying, P.R. operations of amazingly smooth and broad fronted
skills and the control of numerous front organisations which has captured their
monopolistic position and which continues to maintain it.
Typical of their manipulation of
government is the psycho-pharmacological control of the ACMD, a powerful
statutory independent non-departmental public body formed to advise the Home
Office on the misuse of drugs.
Also typical is their pretence at
so-called ‘self-regulation’ regularly used to pull the wool over the eyes of
government, other politicians and Civil Servants. NTORS, for example was a five year long
beautiful example of psychiatrists and pharmacologists purporting to examine
the work of other psychiatrists and pharmacologists with the professed
intention of finding out exactly what was and what was not working to improve
the then current treatment of addicts.
It took five long years only because
that gave failing psycho-pharmaceutical treatments based on so-called ‘harm
reduction’ and ‘methadone maintenance habit management’ a further five years to
clean up their act and to start producing significant and worthwhile results. Also fanfared and expected was a brave new
world of improving statistics showing that the number of long-term drug users
was plunging and that the number of new users was also falling.
But did we hear any big media hoo-ha
about the psycho-pharms’ wonderful achievements in this regard? Where there any government announcements
about implementing promised reforms?
Were Keith Hellawell’s views listened to?
Far from it. What we got was a good old fashioned
whitewash. A cover-up of failures
intended only to prop-up and promote the failing psycho-pharm status quo.
PR, propaganda and lobbyist results
like this are made possible only by virtue of the psycho-pharms having allied,
cultivated, developed and even planted their own fifth-column of long
established ‘friends’ within the establishment.
So here we have only the tip of the psycho-pharms’ manipulative
ice-berg.
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C.E..P.T.A. and E. Kenneth Eckersley, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 &
2005. All World Rights Reserved