- NHS abuse of anti-psychotic drugs. A BBC One Panorama programme broadcast last night described the abuse of anti-psychotic drugs which can cause problems and shorten life.
- Using anti-psychotic drugs inappropriately: my Emailed comments to BBC's Panorama and News24 after I watched the programme.
1. NHS abuse of anti-psychotic drugs. Last night's BBC One Panorama programme documented and discussed the abuse of anti-psychotic drugs in the UK by the NHS (National Health Service) psychiatric profession. This programme can be seen on its web site for a week. It can also be viewed on BBC News24 on Thursday, 6th December 2007, at 0430 GMT throughout the UK and world wide on the BBC News24 web broadcast whose URL is in the sidebar to the right.
After watching this excellent programme last night, I sent Panorama and BBC News24 an Email with my comments. A copy of that Email is located below the following Panorama article about their programme. I urge you to read this article in full and see this documentary either on the Panorama web site or on the BBC News24 web broadcast as indicated.
The very last paragraph describing this documentary Panorama comments as follows: "Panorama asks whether some of the medical profession have become addicted to prescribing anti-psychotics and whether many of these patients could be better cared for without such reliance on these powerful drugs?" My experience is that this is a far worse situation then described by Panorama. I have characterised this abuse as "Repression By Psychiatry."
BBC Panorama Sunday, 2 December 2007, 11:48 GMT
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Panorama reporter Vivian White presents the evidence that in the long-term, treatment of dementia patients with anti-psychotic drugs has no benefit and can shorten patients' lives.
Eric Hollingworth died last week. He was 81-years-old and in a care home.
He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's four years ago and was being treated with anti-psychotic drugs.
He would sit slumped in a chair, comatose, unaware of his surroundings, unable to communicate or he would present strangely agitated behaviour.
On one occasion he stood up and sat down 17 times in ten minutes.
2. Using anti-psychotic drugs inappropriately: my Emailed comments to BBC's Panorama and News24 after I watched the programme.
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Subject: Using psychotic drugs inappropriately with the aged is far worse than you might even begin to suspect.
Date: Monday 03 December 2007 23:16
From: Gary D Chance
To: panorama@bbc.co.uk, news24@bbc.co.uk
The same thing has happened to me only I refused to take the Zyprexa (Olanzapine) and refused to return to see Dr Richard Evans or his colleague Dr Mo Zoha at the St Charles Acute Psychiatric Clinic back in February/March 2000 after two initial visits at their request.
Please see this web page for my correspondence at that time to the hospital and these people which was also sent to Karen Buck, MP for North Kensington and Regents Park.
I was amazed to see the indiscriminate use of anti-psychotic medication but not surprised since I had experienced similar efforts to drug me with one of these (Zyprexa (Olanzapine)) without any diagnosis and certainly no examination. These were being forced on me because I had been called to visit these people and went to explain that I was being harassed by those whom I had reported for child abuse in May 1998.
They had obtained surveillance technology use against me in mid-August 1998 for some unknown reason which they manufactured. A little over a year later the NHS moved out into the community along with the police for a month long siege from mid-December 1999 to mid-January 2000.
There was no reason to carry out any of this activity against me. When I met with first one psychiatrist then the other, I was subjected to abuse about which I eventually complained (see the URL above), and there was an attempt to force me to take this medication.
Although I filled the prescription to find out what it was, I had no intention to take it especially after I read what it was all about on the Internet. I had no intention to return either. I went to identify the NHS personnel who had prowled around my home 24/7 starting in November 1999.
This is when they rolled out the NHS into the community and began to surreptitiously medicate me anyway. It is one thing to medicate someone in care or a hospital where dosages and observations can be controlled and maintained, but it is quite another and unlawful to surreptitiously medicate a person (me) in my own home without any control or direct observation.
This is all a very long story, and I just want to highlight these issues you brought up in your programme tonight. Those whom I reported for their child abuse and antisocial behaviour used the surveillance technology to carry out the extensive harassment against me.
One of these activities was stomping on the floor above and making various noises from below to wake me when I was asleep. This is what was done to witches to force a confession some 400 years ago. It's intention is to break down a person.
When I visited Richard Evans MD, I explained to him that I had been woken by such activity six times during the preceding night. He obviously did not believe me. He obviously did not believe me either concerning the child abuse despite the fact that he had my 23rd September 1999 fax/letter to the Prime Minister in the hospital file he had before him about me.
When I saw on your programme tonight that anti-psychotic drugs were administered on the basis of a light flashing in the patient's room because they did not believe what he described, I thought of my explaining the continuous activity throughout the night intended to wake me at short intervals.
I was not believed either, and he poured scorn over my letter to the Prime Minister which documented failures that were similar to those of Victoria Climbie who died at about this time in early 2000. [She was declared dead at 3.15pm on 25 February 2000. She was eight years and three months old.] I was right and have been right all these years.
In regard to the erratic lift behaviour which was described in the programme tonight, I have never exhibited any such behaviour at any time in any way. Yet, those with the surveillance technology continue to manufacture allegations and engage in a most provocative way to elicit any reaction that they might use against me. They have never succeeded.
This whole activity has continued in the community outside a hospital environment for over nine years and a quarter 24/7 so far since mid-August 1998. The intent is to destroy by creating a breakdown. All human activity is attacked. Personal injuries are created from the use of the surveillance technology. When this started I was 55 and am 64 now. Testament to my soundness of mind and body [despite deliberately inflicted personal injuries] is that I keep addressing the problems properly to try to bring these extreme abuses to an end.
To see tonight that the psychiatric profession used anti-psychotic medication nationwide during the past on a large scale basis is devastating, but I want you to know that this was not confined to those in hospital or care of some sort but rolled out into the community. This was done on the basis of those whom I reported for their child abuse seeking revenge and retaliation by manufacturing allegations against me.
None of the false allegations or the false negative characteristics are true and never have been. No one has ever be able to witness or corroborate these false statements at any time. In fact, observers have noted that the allegations made are false when made.
Like the daughter of this engineer who filmed him, I have had to film myself to prove that the noises which disturb me at night are external in origin. Hundreds of people have been involved in this activity throughout all these years, so there are many witnesses to this massive hoax carried out by those who were reported for child abuse which they wanted to cover up. Sadly, the child abuse continued.