No Science Driving Involuntary Treatment
filed in Canadian Current Events, Civil Rights, Forced Treatment, Mental Health Statistics, Schizophrenia Society, Science and Research on Dec.08, 2008
The Globe and Mail cites perennial involuntary committal promoter and Schizophrenia Society rep John Gray as saying that 60,000 people are involuntarily treated in Canada each year. It’s a stunning statistic. And you can bet it’s actually much higher if we add in all the “treatment by forcible coercion” numbers, because it’s common practice for [...]