As law enforcement and justice authorities turned up the heat, psychiatrists began to panic. In September 1991, the Houston Chronicle reported that “as many as 50 Canadian patients may have been dumped at Houston’s airports without return tickets during the past two weeks. ... One Canadian patient reached for comment at a private psychiatric hospital in Houston said [her release] by one hospital after a lengthy stay came abruptly. They told me, ’Pack your bags, you’re leaving,’ she said.” Rather than a release, it was an eviction. As the law enforcement net tightened, she was no longer a patient in the eyes of the hospital, but a possible witness.
U.S. Representative Pat Schroeder, chairwoman of the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, summarized the U.S. federal government’s findings:
“I am referring to the unethical and disturbing practices in mental health care that are taking place from coast to coast. Our investigation has found that thousands of adolescents, children, and adults have been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment they didn’t need; that hospitals hire bounty hunters to kidnap patients with mental health insurance; that patients are kept against their will until their insurance benefits run out;... that hospitals infiltrate schools by paying kickbacks to school counselors who deliver students; that bonuses are paid to hospital employees, including psychiatrists, for keeping the hospital beds filled.... Clearly, this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds has not policed itself and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices going on.”
The $400 Million Swindle continued...
    
| Previous | Glossary of Scientology Terms | Contents | Next |
| Your view on this Scientology Website | Scientology Related Sites | Bookstore | Church of Scientology Freedom Magazine |
editor@freedommag.org
For Trademark Information
|
