Dear Jonathan,
Torrey may not get any money from the government but he is heavily
funded by the pharmaceutical industry and is responsible for creating
a program used by 42 states to force people to take brain-disabling
psychotropic drugs or be involuntarily hospitalized if they don't.
It masquerades under the benign program title "Assisted Outpatient
Treatment". This, of course, was also supported by the drug industry.
While the article you read may have been interesting, some
important points were left out.
E Fuller Torrey, M.D. is the sweetheart of the National Alliance
for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). NAMI receives millions of dollars a year
from the pharmaceutical industry.
Torrey has an institute called The Stanley Medical Research
Institute. It wasn't always called this. In 1989, The Stanley Medical
Research Programs were established by Theodore and Vada Stanley to
support research on schizophrenia.
>From 1989 to 1998, the research programs were carried out by the
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Institute (NRI) and
administrative activities were carried out by NAMI. In 1998, NRI
moved their offices and hired internal administrative staff. They are
still an extension of NAMI. In 2002, they renamed themselves The
Stanley Medical Research Institute. 74% of their 36 million dollar
budget goes to clinical trials and drug development with only 7% going
to brain studies.
NAMI is known for its ties to the pharmaceutical industry and its
role in pressuring politicians to support forced community treatment
and involuntary hospitalization if people don't comply. Since 1999,
Eli Lilly has "loaned" a pharma executive to NAMI while continuing to
pay the salary.
References to NAMI's funding:
November/December 1999 Mother Jones article, 'An Influential Mental
Health Nonprofit Finds Its "Grassroots" Watered by Pharmaceutical
Millions,' by Ken Silverstein. The article focused on the enormous
amount of funding which NAMI receives from pharmaceutical companies,
with Eli Lilly and Co. taking the lead by donating nearly $3 million
to NAMI between 1996 and 1999. According to Silverstein, NAMI took in
a little more than $11 million from 18 drug companies for that period.
This report info was gained undercover. An explanation follows.
Written by David Oaks, director of Mind Freedom (www.mindfreedom.org),
a grassroots organization that supports a person's right to choose to
take psychotropic drugs or not. This was written to a NAMI
representative.
"I note that for several years the NAMI Consumer Council has
requested that the NAMI board of directors adopt a policy
of full disclosure about the exact amount that NAMI receives
from the psychiatric drug industry. The NAMI board and
director have refused to do this for years. NMHA, WFMH, APA, etc.
all have such disclosure policies. To this day, the NAMI
board of directors has refused to adopt such a full public
disclosure policy, and keeps the huge amount of money from
the drug companies secret from NAMI members (and I myself
am listed as a NAMI member by the way)."
"NAMI has released general information about corporate funding,
but no public accounting is available about the drug company
funding. In fact, Mother Jones had to send an under cover
reporter inside NAMI headquarters to document this link to
the drug industry (they and we won a Project Censored
prize for journalism for that investigation). This information
is on our web site in CAMPAIGNS - PSYCHIATRIC INDUSTRY WATCH -
and then NAMI WATCH. There are even photocopies of some checks."
** This is just the tip of the iceberg with Torrey and NAMI. I
worked with Torrey for 2 years when I first graduated. He used to
criticize the drug industry; now he is in bed with them.
--
Regards,
Catherine
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