| "How can so much degradation and death - so much inhumanity - be justified in the name of civil liberties? It cannot. The opposition to involuntary committal and treatment betrays a profound misunderstanding of the principle of civil liberties. Medication can free victims from their illness - free them from the Bastille of their psychoses - and restore their dignity, their free will and the meaningful exercise of their liberties." Widely acknowledged by advocates to be the single best op-ed ever written on Civil Liberties for mentally ill. A must read for civil libertarians, libertarians, advocates for mentally ill, policy-makers and anyone interested in the role of civil liberties in treating mental illness |
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