Ohio Lawsuit Seeks to Put Forced Psychiatry on Trial

December 2, 2014

The Ohio State Department of Mental Health, two state hospitals, state psychiatrists, and various other government agencies have been accused of “false imprisonment, medical malpractice, assault, battery, torture, and intentional infliction of mental distress” in a 140-page affidavit filed in the Ohio court of civil claims by John J. Rohrer. Rohrer has been held against his will in a psychiatric hospital and forcibly drugged for 5 years and, according to the allegations, it is that which constitutes false imprisonment and torture under federal law.

“It has been known at all relevant times that there is no blood test, no neuro-imaging, no genetic, laboratory or other testing that will validly and reliably diagnose what is being called schizophrenia, schizo-affective, or bi-polar disorder,” states the affidavit. “It has been known at all relevant times that there is no evidence that the brains of people who have not been labeled ‘mentally ill’ are different from the brains of those with a schizophrenic, schizo-affective, or bi-polar label provided that the latter group have never used pharmaceutical products.”

As a result of his being forcibly drugged for these undiagnosable conditions, the affidavit states that Rohrer suffers from “serious temporary and permanent physical and emotional pain, anguish and trauma,” and “permanent physical injuries (enlargement of the basal ganglia of the brain, permanent brain damage and some disfigurement due to irreversible tardive dyskinesia).”

“In November, 2011 Ohio voters approved Sec. 1.21 of the Ohio Constitution, which bans health care services by force,” states a press release on the Free John Rohrer website. “The United States is a signatory to a United Nations treaty, the CRPD [Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities] which considers forced drugging to be a form of torture. Federal law also defines psychotropic drugging by force to be a form of torture. The Rohrer suits attack the former Department of Mental Health, now known as OMHAS, for promoting non-scientific theories to justify excessive drugging of patients and medicare billings.”

Rohrer is being represented by attorney David L. Kastner.


http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/12/patients-lawsuit-claims-psychiatric-diagnosis-treatment-fraud-malpractice-torture/

Hi all,

I am going to be watching this one.

Psychotropic drugging by force is form of torture.

I lived it, the injection threat to coerce me to swallow those pills that effected my breathing and heart rate , vision and the workings of my mind. Those that know me know I refer to forced drugging by psychiatry as rape. Rape = forcing unwanted things into the body of another against there will.

The only reason I ever saw the inside of a psychiatric hospital is because I fell for the serotonin scam, tried their damn pills and got sick from them.

Thanks for the article

I feel so sorry for that man. It is torture, and yes I agree with you Id call it rape. He obviously is very aware of what he went through. The good in this is that its going to court, and its another blow against systems that trample human rights.

I will keep an eye on it as well, certainly a very interesting case.

I guess we can follow it here Ohio: Honor UN Ban on Forced Treatment - Free John Rohrer!

# 1 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/321/112/137/ohio-rule-against-forced-treatment-free-john-rohrer/
And google search results http://www.google.com/search?q=Free+John+Rohrer

If only the public knew what torturous hell holes psychiatry operates.

Below one of the worst I have seen.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here : The supposed inscription at the entrance to Hell.
Horrors at Bridgewater State Hospital http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/horrors-bridgewater-state-hospital-23129454

Thanks! This cases is fascinating, but even more to celebrate is that its getting public attention. Stories like what this man are going through are common but rarely see any publicity. Rarely do they even get to legal attention. The fact this case is seeing both is a huge step forward.


In case anyone is curious here is the complaint in the court claims:

***Warning, emotionally triggering***

http://cases.ohiocourtofclaims.gov/cgi- ... =201400925

Spotted this in the comments section. I fully agree: