Released on = May 27, 2006, 12:05 pm

Press Release Author = Citizens Commsission on Human Rights

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = The commission has also asked the Minister to not allow any
psychiatrists to participate on the task force saying that it would be similar to
hiring a fox to guard a hen house.

Press Release Body = The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a psychiatric watchdog
group established by the Church of Scientology, has asked the Minister of Health,
The Honorable George Abbott, to instruct a proposed suicide-reduction task force to
put the psychiatrist responsible for the care and "treatment" of Ellie Boisvert and
psychiatry's "treatment" procedures in general under the microscope.

The commission has also asked the Minister to not allow any psychiatrists to
participate on the task force saying that it would be similar to hiring a fox to
guard a hen house. Instead, the commission is recommending that members of the
Citizens Commission on Human Rights, members of the legal profession and lay people
comprise the task force.

The task force was recommended as the result of recent coroners inquest conducted by
Regional Coroner Rose Stanton. According to evidence brought out at the inquest
Ellie Boisvert, 56, left the Eric Martin Pavilion, the psychiatric ward of the Royal
Jubilee Hospital, on July 29, 2005, on a four to six-hour pass. Ms.Boisvert didn't
return from her pass and was found dead on Aug. 17, 2005, in Layritz Park. Near her
body was a suicide note. Ms. Boisvert said in the note that she didn't want to
spend one more moment in the "EMP." Nor did she want to continue living as a
psychiatric patient growing steadily worse. "It's not life."

Brian Beaumont President of the Vancouver Chapter of CCHR said "Psychiatrist Dr.
Donald Milliken's rant at the inquest about Canada not having a national suicide
prevention program was obviously a covert way of shifting the blame for Ms.
Boisvert's suicide onto a wrong target and thereby taking no responsibility
at all for her death. After all, he treated her for 10 years prior to her suicide".

Another fault in the psychiatric industry, according to a study by Lisa Cosgrove, a
psychologist from the University of Massachusetts and Sheldon Krimsky, a Tuft
University professor, is psychiatry's billing bible itself , the Diagonstic and
Satistical Manual of Mental Disorgers (DSM). The study documents how pharmaceutical
companies who manufacture drugs for "mental disorders" funded psychiatrists who
defined the disorders for the manual. One hundred percent of the "experts" on
DSM-IV panels overseeing so-called "mood disorders" (which includes "depression")
and "schizophrenia/psychotic disorders" were financially involved with drug
companies. These are the largest categories of psychiatric drugs in the world: 2004
sales of $20.3 billion for antidepressants and $14.4 billion for antipsychotic drugs
alone.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is an international psychiatric watchdog
group co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr. Thomas Szasz,
Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical
University in Syracuse, to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human
rights


Web Site = http://www.cchr.org

Contact Details = Citizens Commission on Human Rights
401 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
604-689-4417
humanrights@lightspeed.ca