In fact, that campaign is exactly where NAMI funnels much of its drug company money. Click on the photo to the right to see the psychiatric drug industry's vision of the entire USA by the year 2002. The drug industry wants this scene to become the national standard by 2002. NAMI's proposal is based on something called the Program of Assertive Community Treatment, or PACT, which NAMI says is now used extensively in six states and is being tried out in 19 others. Staff is available 24 hours a day to bring personal emotional-support services to people in their own homes, on demand, rather than requiring a person to find and use various programs during limited hours, far from home.
PACT is an integrated team approach rather than a bunch of fragmented services.
Vocational rehabilitation and other community services are included. More than half of NAMI's major corporate donors, according to NAMI's own annual report, are psychiatric drug manufacturers. We have lots of hard work to do to defeat this new wave of psychiatric and government assault on psych survivors, the homeless, and poor people. Support Coalition has obtained one of the main videotapes promoting PACT, produced by Duke University and based on the PACT in South Carolina. Revealingly, the video is called Hospital Without Walls.