But this event's keynote speaker is TAC's executive director. A speaker from the nationally-respected Bazelon Center is attending this conference, but was not offered equal keynote time. However, this event's extreme bias should not have happened in the first place. Also, we have raised these issues since this summer with both Jason and chapter president, Phil Chadsey. From the very start, many months ago, Phil claimed the conference was a done deal, and nothing would change.
Actions speak louder than words.
A healthy family communicates, it doesn't repress dissent. NAMI continues to maintain a policy of secrecy about psychiatric drug company donations. These families say their troubled loved ones deserve more than the bang of a judge's gavel and a prescription. These families say their loved ones deserve more than chemical prisons. The sole lunch keynoter on Friday will be Mary Zdanowicz, director of the Treatment Advocacy Center, one of the main organizations nationally promoting an increased use of involuntary psychiatric procedures.