David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
Will the FDA Cave in to Scientology?
Treatment Advocacy Center
January 7. 2011
The FDA is holding hearings Jan. 27 and 27 to decide whether to approve the use of electroshock therapy (ECT) for treatment of some severe mental illnesses.
The Church of Scientology?s Citizens Committee on Human Rights (CCHR) and anti-psychiatry poster child Peter Breggin, MD, are rallying in opposition. Those of us who live and work with severe mental illness need to rally in support. The FDA is taking public comment on the subject.
As former Treatment Advocacy Center board member DJ Jaffe put it in his Huffington Post blog, ?On one side are doctors, scientists, patients and their advocates. On the other side is a doctor who doesn't believe mental illness is real and a religion. The FDA will have to side with one or the other, and the outcome is by no means certain.?
As a doctor, scientist, patient or advocate, please speak up for FDA approval of a therapy that has proven for decades to be effective in the treatment of severe mental illnesses.
Instructions on commenting are available on the FDA website
Tips on effective advocacy can be found on our website
Treatment Advocacy Center
January 7. 2011
The FDA is holding hearings Jan. 27 and 27 to decide whether to approve the use of electroshock therapy (ECT) for treatment of some severe mental illnesses.
The Church of Scientology?s Citizens Committee on Human Rights (CCHR) and anti-psychiatry poster child Peter Breggin, MD, are rallying in opposition. Those of us who live and work with severe mental illness need to rally in support. The FDA is taking public comment on the subject.
As former Treatment Advocacy Center board member DJ Jaffe put it in his Huffington Post blog, ?On one side are doctors, scientists, patients and their advocates. On the other side is a doctor who doesn't believe mental illness is real and a religion. The FDA will have to side with one or the other, and the outcome is by no means certain.?
As a doctor, scientist, patient or advocate, please speak up for FDA approval of a therapy that has proven for decades to be effective in the treatment of severe mental illnesses.
Instructions on commenting are available on the FDA website
Tips on effective advocacy can be found on our website