Lilly pays Radke's salary. Laurie Flynn, director of NAMI, is quoted in the article as defending the enormous gifts by saying that NAMI's Campaign to End Discrimination is funded separately to ensure that drug industry money is not comingled with funds earmarked for NAMI's core budget. NAMI's drug company money is funneled into the NAMI Campaign to End Discrimination for very specific purposes. That's right, mental health workers, funded by taxpayer money, visit some clients every day, even twice a day, to inject them or watch them swallow their pills, on their own doorsteps and in their own living rooms. NAMI announced publicy to Congresspeople one year ago that PACT was at the very core of their mission.
PACT is now state-wide in six U.S. states.
NAMI told Congresspeople their goal is to have PACT in all 50 states by the year 2002. This way, PACT teams can have the power of a judge behind them. The big battle over forced drugs has moved to California. David Oaks, co-coordinator of Support Coalition International, is slated as a keynoter at the annual meeting of the California Network of Mental Health Clients this Sunday on this struggle. In the Mother Jones article, two Support Coalition International board members are quoted.