Nurses for Human Rights

MSNBC reports that old habits are hard to break in Soviet Russia. Once upon a time Stalinist Russia used mental health facilities to detain, drug, and abuse government dissidents. This report says it’s happening again. What should be noted here by nurses is that after only a few months of treatment with antipsychotics, the victims sustain permanent neurologic damage. If psychiatry is truly a medical profession and follow an oath, why would they agree to do such things to a human being? The fact that psychiatry would agree to be a detaining point and involuntarily commit normal people who otherwise would not need treatment on the orders of a government is a human rights abuse issue. I haven’t heard any American Psychiatrist denounce this treatment or band together to protest. Why? Nurses, we need to protest and let our legislators know that we don’t agree that this is done on human rights issue numbers 3 and 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Exercise your political will. Sign this petition:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/NrseCall2Arms/

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