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National
Council on Disability, January 20, 2000
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Recommendations
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. . . NCD has developed 10 core
recommendations in this report. These
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policy
recommendations should be viewed from the context of the larger
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report, which
follows. These deeply held core beliefs form, however, a
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dynamic backdrop
to highlight the human and civil rights of people who
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have experienced
the mental health system, people who should be viewed
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as the true
experts on their experiences, beliefs, and values, which should
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be used as a
guiding force for changing public policy related to these issues
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in America.
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1. Laws that
allow the use of involuntary treatments such as forced drugging
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and inpatient
and outpatient commitment should be viewed as inherently
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suspect, because
they are incompatible with the principle of self-
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determination.
Public policy needs to move in the direction of a totally
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voluntary
community-based mental health system that safeguards human
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dignity and
respects individual autonomy.
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