Oaks warns of psychiatric abuse
By Carrie Dennett
Emerald Associate Editor
When David Oaks was a student at Harvard
University in the early 1070s, tie was placed in
psyc hiatric hospitals five times
One tune when he dumped a d(we el !upiid
Thorazine on the floor rattier than following
orders to swallow it, he was surrounded In
male hospital workers, thrown in solitary c on
linemenl, and given a forcible drug injec Mon
This prac tice of -solitary confinement lol
lowed- in ' Iwrc 1111e injection w as not one oin
innr said Oaks, coordinator o! the (desiring
house on Human Rights and I’syc 111 airy
In one a use a male psyc hiatric: patient sui
ierv-.i , :i i at;a, k wdiiie stnii'ad ;ng against lie’
orderlies Iiirc ing iurii into solitary t he dex tor
returned, gave tie: patient a drug injec tion,
then leah/ed the patient was dead
"They gave a forcible mjec tiem to a 'danger
mis dead person,' Oaks said, speaking to
alxuit 20 people Thursday, at the universily
Oaks called psychiatric: drugs .i ' liquid lc>
balmily" that soiiw people agree to take, but is
often given without choice.
Young people tire especially vulnerable to
being drugged forcibly, or with a lesser level of
coercion, when the are perceived .is having a
psychiatric problem, he said
Oaks saui the number of teenagers in private
mental Institutions has increased as much as
■400 percent in recent years.
In Eugene, 252 children are diagnosed as
having Attention Deficit Disorder, for which
the drug Ritalin, a form of speed, is typically
prescribed, he said.
Oaks said the public needs to question why
these children are drugged, and why no one
considers that it may be unnatural to confine
small children in a room for several hours a
day.
Oaks said the frequent use of drugs that is a
part of modern psychiatry is linked to industri
uli/.ud society.
Industrialized society is an extremely organ
Isr.ed system, he said, which brings curtain ben
efits hut has the negative characteristic of be
ing a system with a hierarchical form of con
trol
The society's need tor control does nol allow
people to be different, he said, and takes ex
treme measures to subdue people diagnosed
with mental disturbances
Oaks said University students are at risk of
being given those forms of treatment, because a
number of students are referred to Sacred
Pf'Ohj ’if s*».V- >■ V4^?U*
Dav/cf OaAj, coordinator ot the Clearinghouse
on Human Rights and Psychiatry, spoke at tho
University Thursday about the dangers ot psy
chiatric drugs.
Heart General Hospital for treatment each ve.ir
Lloctroshock therapy has twcomti more com
mon recently at Sacred Heart, said Oaks..-Who
has organized protests against its use
Oaks accused the hospital of not placing
complete information about electroshock s
risks in the consent forms patients sign, and of
not acknowledging that permanent memory
loss can bo u result
A student In tho audience said she is un
happy with how quickly tho University Health
Guntur diagnoses students as having a particu
lar mental illness and offers psychotic drugs
In 1U90 she begun suffering from extreme
anxiety attacks She received lit weeks of
counseling from the Counseling Gunter, the
maximum time allowed per student She then
sought help from a Health Center psychiatrist
After 2U minutes with the psychiatrist, she
was diagnosed with the words "Congratula
tions, you’re the proud owner of an anxiety
disorder,” and gave her a medical instruction
sheet fur a powerful anti-depressant
The student said she declined dtug treat
ment. because she believes in holistic healing,
but she later went bat k several times lo voice
her dismay at how she was handled
Oaks recommended that students pursuing
psychiatry as a earner look for alternative wavs
of helping people by empowering them and
giving them a variety of options lo help them
through their mental distress
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