Sunday, April 4, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
GARTH DANIELS - The Hospitals - the Psychiatrists - the Prescriptions
.."Mum! Look what they've done to our son mum." Gracefully, Garth Daniels grand parents are not about because they would never comprehend man's inhumanity to man... for the sake of humanity ?; no less so than ANY other person seemingly in a civilised country. We refer of course to the State of Victoria Australia...where these hospitals are located, along with the treating psychiatrists and their prescriptions. To be continued...
Saturday, January 16, 2010
GARTH DANIELS - 2010 - Beyond Reproach
PRIMUM Non Nocere ABOVE ALL, DO NO HARM.
More than four-thousand drugs entered the market up to 2010. Yet, polypharmacy (prescribing more than one drug of the same class at a time)or "stacking" (using more than one drug of a different class at the same time) appears the order of the day, invariably without scientific validation of the more than likely implications of adverse drug-drug interactions upon the patient.
The patient who is involuntary prescribed drugs and who over the past thirteen years experienced the effects of extreme polypharmacy...and "stacking", creating a toxic effect...more candidly expressed as being poisoned.
Voltiare appeared to have captured the essence of such prescribing methods when he stated that "Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing".
Lancet, the medical journal more than ten years ago in its editorial advocated that physicians should listen to their patients... yet thirteen years on we find Garth Daniels still being prescribed drugs without his informed consent... Garth Daniels is not being heard.
Is Garth Daniels to remain the involuntary participant for polypharmacy? The "Lab Rat" who continues to be drugged and injected without his informed consent...? We should think not..no more enough is enough. Judge Byrne in the Supreme Court of Victoria had stated in October 2008 that it is a treatment "which may need to be investigated"... perhaps that time has come.
Who advocates these prescriptions...? Who perpetuates a system which denies a citizen the right to informed consent? A citizen who has never committed a crime, act of terror or a traffic offense? Who turns the blind eyes? More specifically the question is why? The answer is not too far away.
Is Psychiatry beyond reproach...beyond the rule of law? We should think not...after all this is happening in the State of Victoria Australia... Its a Democracy is it not or have we missed something here?
Garth Daniels was today Tuesday 2 February 2010 released from Thomas Embling Forensicare Hospital(sic) detention centre on a Community Treatment Order (CTO).
Garth Daniels is still NOT FREE.
click older posts for history
More than four-thousand drugs entered the market up to 2010. Yet, polypharmacy (prescribing more than one drug of the same class at a time)or "stacking" (using more than one drug of a different class at the same time) appears the order of the day, invariably without scientific validation of the more than likely implications of adverse drug-drug interactions upon the patient.
The patient who is involuntary prescribed drugs and who over the past thirteen years experienced the effects of extreme polypharmacy...and "stacking", creating a toxic effect...more candidly expressed as being poisoned.
Voltiare appeared to have captured the essence of such prescribing methods when he stated that "Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing".
Lancet, the medical journal more than ten years ago in its editorial advocated that physicians should listen to their patients... yet thirteen years on we find Garth Daniels still being prescribed drugs without his informed consent... Garth Daniels is not being heard.
Is Garth Daniels to remain the involuntary participant for polypharmacy? The "Lab Rat" who continues to be drugged and injected without his informed consent...? We should think not..no more enough is enough. Judge Byrne in the Supreme Court of Victoria had stated in October 2008 that it is a treatment "which may need to be investigated"... perhaps that time has come.
Who advocates these prescriptions...? Who perpetuates a system which denies a citizen the right to informed consent? A citizen who has never committed a crime, act of terror or a traffic offense? Who turns the blind eyes? More specifically the question is why? The answer is not too far away.
Is Psychiatry beyond reproach...beyond the rule of law? We should think not...after all this is happening in the State of Victoria Australia... Its a Democracy is it not or have we missed something here?
Garth Daniels was today Tuesday 2 February 2010 released from Thomas Embling Forensicare Hospital(sic) detention centre on a Community Treatment Order (CTO).
Garth Daniels is still NOT FREE.
click older posts for history
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
GARTH DANIELS - dog health problems
Worried about your health or that of your dog? ...no need to see a psychiatrist.. go here
,.. YOU think psychiatry does'nt affect you...? THINK AGAIN... A Vet listens to you...and prescribes accordingly...a psychiatrist..well...the following articles provides an insight to the discipline of psychiatry.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/parents-of-ill-man-battle-hospital-over-sons-care-20080913-4fyb.html
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/hollow-victory-for-family-in-fight-over-son/2006/08/12/1154803145338.html
click on
The severity, diagnosis and treatment can vary from dog to dog ( (or person to person), so learning to recognize the symptoms, having them assessed and administering the correct treatment will relieve your and your dogs suffering as quickly as possible...unlike the treatment of lab rats by psychiatry.,.. YOU think psychiatry does'nt affect you...? THINK AGAIN... A Vet listens to you...and prescribes accordingly...a psychiatrist..well...the following articles provides an insight to the discipline of psychiatry.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/parents-of-ill-man-battle-hospital-over-sons-care-20080913-4fyb.html
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/hollow-victory-for-family-in-fight-over-son/2006/08/12/1154803145338.html
Thursday, December 3, 2009
GARTH DANIELS - Benders of the Mind - (13 Years). A History 1996...
"Odd fragments, flights of the imagination, rolling phrases about nothing... ."
These thoughts must have echoed the sentiments of Garth ... the day would soon come 4 December 2009. This day was to be the day Garth Daniels would be allowed to step back into the community. Due process had been followed via the Mental Health Review Board on 20 November to facilitate his step into the community...back into his Area Mental Health Services(AMHS). Nothing, he was assured would intervene... Garth enquired whether this step was set in concrete and was assured that it was so.
On 2 December 2009 without warning in fact quite by accident the Daniels family learned that the AMHS had pulled the carpet from under their son Garth...that his step into the community had been stayed... This despite the fact due process had been followed via the MHRB to acheive the desired outcome... Instead... Benders of the Mind...it culiminated in Garth Daniels being secluded... Wonder why? Its thirteen years on and Garth Daniels is still NOT FREE...and he has NOT committed any criminal offence.
On Thursday 10 December 2009 Thomas Embling was authorizeded under the Mental Health Act at the instigation of Dr.Grant Lester to detain Garth Daniels for a further eight weeks as an involuntary patient.
p.s.Menders of the Mind. A history of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 1946-1996, Rubinstein W.D. & Hilary L.
These thoughts must have echoed the sentiments of Garth ... the day would soon come 4 December 2009. This day was to be the day Garth Daniels would be allowed to step back into the community. Due process had been followed via the Mental Health Review Board on 20 November to facilitate his step into the community...back into his Area Mental Health Services(AMHS). Nothing, he was assured would intervene... Garth enquired whether this step was set in concrete and was assured that it was so.
On 2 December 2009 without warning in fact quite by accident the Daniels family learned that the AMHS had pulled the carpet from under their son Garth...that his step into the community had been stayed... This despite the fact due process had been followed via the MHRB to acheive the desired outcome... Instead... Benders of the Mind...it culiminated in Garth Daniels being secluded... Wonder why? Its thirteen years on and Garth Daniels is still NOT FREE...and he has NOT committed any criminal offence.
On Thursday 10 December 2009 Thomas Embling was authorizeded under the Mental Health Act at the instigation of Dr.Grant Lester to detain Garth Daniels for a further eight weeks as an involuntary patient.
p.s.Menders of the Mind. A history of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 1946-1996, Rubinstein W.D. & Hilary L.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
GARTH DANIELS - Deju vu -Thomas Embling Forensic Hospital : Detention Centre or Prison?
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Click on older posts at bottom of page for prior history
Garth Daniels after again being kept in seclusion for thirty days from August 2009 was transferred out of seclusion at Peninsula Health in September, into an environment which houses inmates of the Criminal Justice System. The irony of the situation is that to be freed from seclusion (solitary confinement) Garth Daniels has virtually been sent to prison.
The Thomas Embling Hospital located in Fairfield, about 7km from the CBD of the City of Melbourne, Australia...as the photograph shows, resembles more of a prison detention centre than a hospital. In fact it must be assumed that it was designed as a purpose built facility for inmates from the Criminal Justice System. Does it look like a hospital to you?
There are NO EMERGENCY facilties at this site, no specialists doctors, except psychiatrists whose treatment is dependent soley upon the administration of mind altering drugs. These drugs given either orally or by intra-muscular injection, as is the case with Garth Daniels.
Persons detained here under Section 47 Corrections Act 1986 provides the right to have access to reasonable medical care with the approval of the PMO (Prison Medical Officer) at their own expense and with a MO (Medical Officer) of their choice.
Garth Daniels is NOT at Thomas Embling as an inmate from the Criminal Justice System and is not detained under The Crimes Act, The Sentencing Act or The Corrections Act...Garth Daniels is there because he is being treated under an ITO (Involuntary Treatment Order)...despite the fact that it had been acknowledged in the legal sense, that Garth is capable of consenting to appropriate treatment. This being the case Garth Daniels should be discharged from involuntary treatment but continues to be treated without his informed consent.
An Ethics Committee governs the research activities at this Hospital;which as the photograph is within the perimeter of a ten metre high fence(silver grey buildings)
Friday, September 4, 2009
GARTH DANIELS - and - U.N.Special Rapporteur on Involuntary Confinement
"In modern prison systems of the world one can trace the origins of the philosophy of rehabilitation through isolation to the Pennsylvania prison model, developed in the 1820s at the Cherry Hill Prison.
The aim of the model was to rehabilitate criminals through solitary confinement; prisoners spent all their time in their cells, including work, in order to reflect on their transgressions and return to society "morally cleansed" *
U.N.General Assembly 28 July 2008, sixty third session Item 67(a) of the provisional agenda* Promotion and protection of human rights:implementation of human rights instruments.
Interestingly, in April 2008, an Australian Supreme Court Judge Bongiorno in a terrorist trial over mistreatment of prisoners inside the maximum security Acacia Unit, about 60 kilometetres from Melbourne, noted that the defendants had been kept locked in individual cells for up to 23 hours a day, with severe restrictions on receiving visitors....
Judge Bongiorno in relation to these prisoners confinement summed up the testimony of Dr.Douglas Bell, a government forensic psychiatrist, in these terms: "Dr. Bell considered that in the circumstances of the applicants it is more likely than not that an ordinary person would experience significant psychological and emotional difficulties. These difficulties are likely to have a significant effect on the applicants' ability to concentrate or to remember things from day to day or week to week... He considered that...would be likely to impact to a significant extent on the cognitive mental functions..."
Consequently, Judge Bongiorno required the authorities to carry out a list of alterations which included 10 out-of-cell hours per day when the inmates were not attending court.
In April 2009 we find Garth Daniels an involuntary patient discharged from the Thomas Embling Forensic Hospital(sic)... on a Community Treatment Order (CTO)... Effectively forced to be treated in the public sector, where to date, the number of psychiatrists treating him have now well-surpassed the 200 mark. This despite the fact Garth Daniels and his family have on numerous occassions put foreward the view that if Garth is treated in the private sector; he could be treated by the same psychiatrist rather than the 200 plus who rotate in the public system...and who after twelve years...still continue to drug Garh Daniels against his will without his formal consent. Each using Garth as just another lab rat...prescribing according to each their own idea of what they considered is good for Garth Daniels.
To this should be added the fact that after twelve excruciating years of being treated... in the public system...both psychiatrists and Pharmaceutical drugs are being recycled (who was it who said that only a mad man prescribes the same thing each time and expects a different result?).
In July this year Garth Daniels was readmitted to a mental health service provider...not because he refused his medication... He could NOT refuse...it was given by injection... How then did Garth Daniels experience such dysfunction that required hospitalisation once again. Garth Daniels IS subjected to a CTO...so he is subjected to the regime of the treating psychiatrist... Of course Garth Daniels had no say in the matter...
Once the CTO was revoked and Garth Daniels readmitted to hospital, the recycling of drugs that did not work some twelve years ago were again administered. One such drug is Chloryl-Hydrate... another Zuclopenthixol Acuphase... a drug which the former Chief Psychiatrist of Victoria, Associate Professor Tanaghow, had directed the service providers to withhold; because of its debilitating effect upon Garth Daniels. How long before they again introduce Olanzapine( better known as Zyprexa)? It did not work in 1998 so why it would work several years later? Each psychiatrist with his/her own opinion as to what they considered is in Garth Daniels best interest...treated Garth Daniels over the years as some lab rat... Nothing has changed in twelve years...
Five months since Garth Daniels discharge from the Thomas Embling and a year after Judge Bongiorno's summation, we find that Garth Daniels CTO is revoked; because once again the dose and frequency of administration of the drug had been altered. The question to be asked is WHY? This has again culminated in Garth experiencing symptomaologies not inconsistent with known serious medical adverse effects .... But, again...the treating teams are enmeshed in one thing only...their diagnosis of Schizophrenia anti social personality disorder. Their answer it appears is nothing other than to place Garth Daniels in isolation....confined to seclusion...
How are these events relevant to that of Judge Bongiorno's deliberations and the testimony of Dr. Bell ?
On admission to the public service provider, Garth was immediately given intra-muscular injections (IMI) which apparently should have been given two weeks earlier. Coupled with this injection and to quel what is alleged to be psychosis, additional neuroleptics were administered. This culminated in Garth becoming more dysfunctional wherein we find the connection...
The Consultant Psychaitrist committed Garth Daniels to solitary confinement ( seclusion- a room which is locked from the outside).
On the inside of this seclusion room is a cardboard bottle and cardboard pan ( throwback to the eighteenth century toilet)... a mattress on the concrete floor... and in contrast, looking down from the ceiling, a moderm device.. a camera...to watch his every move. ..four weeks later we still find Garth in seclusion; admittedly Garth is allowed outside every four hours to have a smoke. In fact The Mental Health Act 1986 ( as amended) states that a patient in seclusion should be reviewed every four hours. And, this of course at the particular health service... Garth Daniels was allowed a break and reviewed EVERY FOUR HOURS. This includes 8:00pm...12 midnight...4:00am...8:00am. His family ponder the question as to why it was reported that Garth never slept well.
Of course there are reports that Garth did not appear to have slept on occasions...or that he had specifically asked to be woken so he could have his smoke... Garth Daniels at this stage had begun to talk to himself...laugh...shadow box... In fact Garth Daniels even smiled to himself... One would suspect that is more appropriate than allegedly assaulting staff? The clinicians view...well, Garth is laughing inappropriately!
Reflect upon Judge Biogiorno's summation of Dr. Douglas Bell " it is more likely than not that an ordinary person would experience significant psychological and emotional difficulties..." After having had his neuroleptics (psychotropic medication) stabilised at Thomas Embling Forensic Hospital; detained in what is effectively a detention centre for the criminally insane from 8 October 2008 to April 2009 and discharged on a CTO... Garth Daniels is now to be transferred back to Thomas Embling because the Consultant and treating psychiatrist, Dr.Jeremy Stone under the jurisdiction of Clinical Director Dr.D.Singh is unable to treat Garth Daniels safely and effectively... Why not one may well ask ?
At the time of writing Garth Daniels remains in seclusion...exascerbating the very conditions for which he is supposedly treated...Schizophrenia Anti-social personality disorder... Would YOU not develop an anti-social personality disorder if you were locked in a space large enough for a single bed ( mattress on the floor) and a video camera staring down at you from the ceiling ...watching your every move...including having to defecate in a cardboard tray and urinate in a card board bottle? And, to eat your food in the same room...?
Notwithstanding the former, there are other debilitating effects such as akathisia ( inability to stand still), parkinsonism ( severe tremor ) and Tardive Dykenisia (TD) involuntary movements of the mouth... These of course tend to have gone largely unnoticed once again by the Consultants eventhough TD could become irreversible.
The prescriber information from the manufacturers list the contraindications... but, because Garth Daniels is treated as a "lab rat" ... it seems Garth Daniels is dispensible. How long before they kill him?
It appears that it is better to be bad than to be mad... it must be stated that Garth Daniels despite the protests of his family and friends at his first admission to the Thomas Embling Forensic Facility...Garth Daniels was to say the least...treated with dignity ( provided of course you ignore the fact that its also the place for inmates from the Criminal Justice System) and respect and had never been placed in seclusion during his previous forced sojourn at Thomas Embling... What is noted is that the Dr. Douglas Bell who gave evidence before Judge Bongiorno is the same Dr. Douglas Bell who is the Clinical Director at Thomas Embling.
Judge Bongiorno's summation no dought instills in the family of Garth Daniels a confidence in the judicial system... that the Judiciary can not and rightly so, could not be dictated to or influenced other than by the rule of law. Judge Bongiorno made the administrators of the detention centres accountable and visible...
Perhaps its time for a Judicial Review into the treatment of Garth Daniels ...as Judge Byrne remarked in the Supreme Court in October 2008.. " ...this treatment may need to be investigated..." Ms. Lisa Neville our Minister of Mental Health remains silent on this issue as does our Health Minister Daniel Andrews. And, of course our Chief Psychiatrist, Dr.Ruth Vine having been involved in Garth Daniels treatment...could hardly be expected to have an unbiaised view. The fact is that Dr.Ruth Vine formed her opinion of Garth Daniels in September 1999, when Dr.Ruth Vine promulgated the idea that Garth Daniels should be separated from his father because Garth Daniels has an "enmeshed" relationship with his father. At that time Dr. Vine had not even seen Garth Daniels let alone examine him. Judgement by proxy?
Garth Daniels has spent more time in solitary confinement than ANY person would lock up their dog...in fact if a dog was locked up for the period of time Garth Daniels has been in solitary confiment...the pet owner would be charged for cruelty by the R.S.P.C.A. Garth Daniels has not even committed a traffic offence - has committed no crime, is not a terrorist...but a young aspiring photographer who wants nothing more than to be allowed home to his family. Garth Daniels continues to be injected intra-muscularly...now with additional neuroleptics.
Ironically, it would appear that to be freed from seclusion and his continued solitary confinement...Garth Daniels is to be admitted to prison...reference of course to Thomas Embling Forensic Hospital( - in essence, a dentention centre which houses inmates of the Criminal Justice System.
The updated Victoria Mental Health Act is to go before Parliament soon... maybe the very ACT should be the subject of a Judicial Review. Perhaps then Garth Daniels will be FREE?
Did this question really have to be asked in this eglitarian society...where the colloquilism once was ..."She's alwright mate! No worries!" Think again..its NOT alwright mate...its a worry.
Is our medical profession oblivious to their own Hippocratic Oath Primum, no nocere; The Helsinki Declaration and/or The Nuremberg Codes... ? Do we not subscribe to the U.N.Rapporteur on Involuntary Confinement... ?
Garth Daniels has been in seclusion for more than thirty days... You be the judge... You be the jury. Garth Daniels needs your help... before he becomes just another psychiatry statistic. To help contact freegarth@gmail.com
The aim of the model was to rehabilitate criminals through solitary confinement; prisoners spent all their time in their cells, including work, in order to reflect on their transgressions and return to society "morally cleansed" *
U.N.General Assembly 28 July 2008, sixty third session Item 67(a) of the provisional agenda* Promotion and protection of human rights:implementation of human rights instruments.
Interestingly, in April 2008, an Australian Supreme Court Judge Bongiorno in a terrorist trial over mistreatment of prisoners inside the maximum security Acacia Unit, about 60 kilometetres from Melbourne, noted that the defendants had been kept locked in individual cells for up to 23 hours a day, with severe restrictions on receiving visitors....
Judge Bongiorno in relation to these prisoners confinement summed up the testimony of Dr.Douglas Bell, a government forensic psychiatrist, in these terms: "Dr. Bell considered that in the circumstances of the applicants it is more likely than not that an ordinary person would experience significant psychological and emotional difficulties. These difficulties are likely to have a significant effect on the applicants' ability to concentrate or to remember things from day to day or week to week... He considered that...would be likely to impact to a significant extent on the cognitive mental functions..."
Consequently, Judge Bongiorno required the authorities to carry out a list of alterations which included 10 out-of-cell hours per day when the inmates were not attending court.
In April 2009 we find Garth Daniels an involuntary patient discharged from the Thomas Embling Forensic Hospital(sic)... on a Community Treatment Order (CTO)... Effectively forced to be treated in the public sector, where to date, the number of psychiatrists treating him have now well-surpassed the 200 mark. This despite the fact Garth Daniels and his family have on numerous occassions put foreward the view that if Garth is treated in the private sector; he could be treated by the same psychiatrist rather than the 200 plus who rotate in the public system...and who after twelve years...still continue to drug Garh Daniels against his will without his formal consent. Each using Garth as just another lab rat...prescribing according to each their own idea of what they considered is good for Garth Daniels.
To this should be added the fact that after twelve excruciating years of being treated... in the public system...both psychiatrists and Pharmaceutical drugs are being recycled (who was it who said that only a mad man prescribes the same thing each time and expects a different result?).
In July this year Garth Daniels was readmitted to a mental health service provider...not because he refused his medication... He could NOT refuse...it was given by injection... How then did Garth Daniels experience such dysfunction that required hospitalisation once again. Garth Daniels IS subjected to a CTO...so he is subjected to the regime of the treating psychiatrist... Of course Garth Daniels had no say in the matter...
Once the CTO was revoked and Garth Daniels readmitted to hospital, the recycling of drugs that did not work some twelve years ago were again administered. One such drug is Chloryl-Hydrate... another Zuclopenthixol Acuphase... a drug which the former Chief Psychiatrist of Victoria, Associate Professor Tanaghow, had directed the service providers to withhold; because of its debilitating effect upon Garth Daniels. How long before they again introduce Olanzapine( better known as Zyprexa)? It did not work in 1998 so why it would work several years later? Each psychiatrist with his/her own opinion as to what they considered is in Garth Daniels best interest...treated Garth Daniels over the years as some lab rat... Nothing has changed in twelve years...
Five months since Garth Daniels discharge from the Thomas Embling and a year after Judge Bongiorno's summation, we find that Garth Daniels CTO is revoked; because once again the dose and frequency of administration of the drug had been altered. The question to be asked is WHY? This has again culminated in Garth experiencing symptomaologies not inconsistent with known serious medical adverse effects .... But, again...the treating teams are enmeshed in one thing only...their diagnosis of Schizophrenia anti social personality disorder. Their answer it appears is nothing other than to place Garth Daniels in isolation....confined to seclusion...
How are these events relevant to that of Judge Bongiorno's deliberations and the testimony of Dr. Bell ?
On admission to the public service provider, Garth was immediately given intra-muscular injections (IMI) which apparently should have been given two weeks earlier. Coupled with this injection and to quel what is alleged to be psychosis, additional neuroleptics were administered. This culminated in Garth becoming more dysfunctional wherein we find the connection...
The Consultant Psychaitrist committed Garth Daniels to solitary confinement ( seclusion- a room which is locked from the outside).
On the inside of this seclusion room is a cardboard bottle and cardboard pan ( throwback to the eighteenth century toilet)... a mattress on the concrete floor... and in contrast, looking down from the ceiling, a moderm device.. a camera...to watch his every move. ..four weeks later we still find Garth in seclusion; admittedly Garth is allowed outside every four hours to have a smoke. In fact The Mental Health Act 1986 ( as amended) states that a patient in seclusion should be reviewed every four hours. And, this of course at the particular health service... Garth Daniels was allowed a break and reviewed EVERY FOUR HOURS. This includes 8:00pm...12 midnight...4:00am...8:00am. His family ponder the question as to why it was reported that Garth never slept well.
Of course there are reports that Garth did not appear to have slept on occasions...or that he had specifically asked to be woken so he could have his smoke... Garth Daniels at this stage had begun to talk to himself...laugh...shadow box... In fact Garth Daniels even smiled to himself... One would suspect that is more appropriate than allegedly assaulting staff? The clinicians view...well, Garth is laughing inappropriately!
Reflect upon Judge Biogiorno's summation of Dr. Douglas Bell " it is more likely than not that an ordinary person would experience significant psychological and emotional difficulties..." After having had his neuroleptics (psychotropic medication) stabilised at Thomas Embling Forensic Hospital; detained in what is effectively a detention centre for the criminally insane from 8 October 2008 to April 2009 and discharged on a CTO... Garth Daniels is now to be transferred back to Thomas Embling because the Consultant and treating psychiatrist, Dr.Jeremy Stone under the jurisdiction of Clinical Director Dr.D.Singh is unable to treat Garth Daniels safely and effectively... Why not one may well ask ?
At the time of writing Garth Daniels remains in seclusion...exascerbating the very conditions for which he is supposedly treated...Schizophrenia Anti-social personality disorder... Would YOU not develop an anti-social personality disorder if you were locked in a space large enough for a single bed ( mattress on the floor) and a video camera staring down at you from the ceiling ...watching your every move...including having to defecate in a cardboard tray and urinate in a card board bottle? And, to eat your food in the same room...?
Notwithstanding the former, there are other debilitating effects such as akathisia ( inability to stand still), parkinsonism ( severe tremor ) and Tardive Dykenisia (TD) involuntary movements of the mouth... These of course tend to have gone largely unnoticed once again by the Consultants eventhough TD could become irreversible.
The prescriber information from the manufacturers list the contraindications... but, because Garth Daniels is treated as a "lab rat" ... it seems Garth Daniels is dispensible. How long before they kill him?
It appears that it is better to be bad than to be mad... it must be stated that Garth Daniels despite the protests of his family and friends at his first admission to the Thomas Embling Forensic Facility...Garth Daniels was to say the least...treated with dignity ( provided of course you ignore the fact that its also the place for inmates from the Criminal Justice System) and respect and had never been placed in seclusion during his previous forced sojourn at Thomas Embling... What is noted is that the Dr. Douglas Bell who gave evidence before Judge Bongiorno is the same Dr. Douglas Bell who is the Clinical Director at Thomas Embling.
Judge Bongiorno's summation no dought instills in the family of Garth Daniels a confidence in the judicial system... that the Judiciary can not and rightly so, could not be dictated to or influenced other than by the rule of law. Judge Bongiorno made the administrators of the detention centres accountable and visible...
Perhaps its time for a Judicial Review into the treatment of Garth Daniels ...as Judge Byrne remarked in the Supreme Court in October 2008.. " ...this treatment may need to be investigated..." Ms. Lisa Neville our Minister of Mental Health remains silent on this issue as does our Health Minister Daniel Andrews. And, of course our Chief Psychiatrist, Dr.Ruth Vine having been involved in Garth Daniels treatment...could hardly be expected to have an unbiaised view. The fact is that Dr.Ruth Vine formed her opinion of Garth Daniels in September 1999, when Dr.Ruth Vine promulgated the idea that Garth Daniels should be separated from his father because Garth Daniels has an "enmeshed" relationship with his father. At that time Dr. Vine had not even seen Garth Daniels let alone examine him. Judgement by proxy?
Garth Daniels has spent more time in solitary confinement than ANY person would lock up their dog...in fact if a dog was locked up for the period of time Garth Daniels has been in solitary confiment...the pet owner would be charged for cruelty by the R.S.P.C.A. Garth Daniels has not even committed a traffic offence - has committed no crime, is not a terrorist...but a young aspiring photographer who wants nothing more than to be allowed home to his family. Garth Daniels continues to be injected intra-muscularly...now with additional neuroleptics.
Ironically, it would appear that to be freed from seclusion and his continued solitary confinement...Garth Daniels is to be admitted to prison...reference of course to Thomas Embling Forensic Hospital( - in essence, a dentention centre which houses inmates of the Criminal Justice System.
The updated Victoria Mental Health Act is to go before Parliament soon... maybe the very ACT should be the subject of a Judicial Review. Perhaps then Garth Daniels will be FREE?
Did this question really have to be asked in this eglitarian society...where the colloquilism once was ..."She's alwright mate! No worries!" Think again..its NOT alwright mate...its a worry.
Is our medical profession oblivious to their own Hippocratic Oath Primum, no nocere; The Helsinki Declaration and/or The Nuremberg Codes... ? Do we not subscribe to the U.N.Rapporteur on Involuntary Confinement... ?
Garth Daniels has been in seclusion for more than thirty days... You be the judge... You be the jury. Garth Daniels needs your help... before he becomes just another psychiatry statistic. To help contact freegarth@gmail.com
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