Tom Harkins wrote:

I'm beginning to see the light!  .........

Our Peer Recovery Center opened on April
1, with a Grand Opening Gala that was
attended by 7 clients.  By Friday, there
were no clents in attendance.
 
If clients won’t voluntarily attend the
PRC, then it will be attended by
clients forced into out patient treatment.
........

I love it! Remember that old line

What if they gave a war and nobody came?

But seriously folks .. This is part and parcel of the quality problem that has to do with distorting with words.

Maybe we should insist on real words here — that each person pressured into such a program has been involuntarily drafted.

Whay are the mentally ill the only people left in the U.S. who are eligible for the draft? And not only that — we don’t get paid!

And what about our combat injuries? When are we going to be compensated like other injured vets for our war wounds?

And Tom again:

I would like to be involved in a discussion
about ‘coercion’.  I’m not in favor of it,
but it isn’t all that  black and white.  Is
a ‘little’ coercion ok??  Is shmoozing
coercion?  Is holding a gun to your head
coercion?  Where is the line drawn??

Well, there always will be coercion and some may be necessary.

So let’s just insist they call it coercion instead of recovery.

Sharon