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donesia, Liberia, Columbia, Nepal, Haiti, Iran, Nigeria, the yard in this institution like somnambulists, robots,
Tanzania, Pakistan, Sarawak, Jamaica, Kuwait, Israel, and vegetables as a result of the drug [Prolixin] should
and Yugoslavia. be reason enough to make people apprehensive as to the
In Haiti, for example, Kline in 1958, during the ebb of effect it is having. That no prisoner feels safe because he
a Communist uprising, set up that unfortunate country's never knows when he will become a candidate for said
only mental health clinic, linking drugs with voodoo, as drug is another factor in producing tension in this inthe
basic "therapeutic treatment." One year later, in stitution."[27]
1959, Kline received the highest civilian award, the The most commonly used drugs in prisons are lithium
Legion of Honor and Merit, from Papa Doc Duvalier, at and prolixin. Lithium is the favorite for what is referred
the time Duvalier was consolidating his bloody dic- to as the "emotionally unstable aggressive personality."
tatorship. Kline "settled" on Haiti because he An NIMH-supported experiment, "The Long-Term Use
recognized that it was "virtually impossible to set up a of Lithium in Aggressive Prisoners," conducted at the
psychiatric service in the United States based upon this Vacaville, California Medical Facility produced the
principle [of chemotherapy], since it was so clearly following results. Of 27 subjects on lithium, several
heretical."[23] In Haiti, Kline continued, "no one knew stopped because they expressed the fear that if they
that suchanapproachwasincorrect...So it worked."[24] stayed on lithium they would be unable to defend
Kline's voluminous writings (his bibliography lists themselves, or be emasculated; there was precipitation of
nearly 400 books, articles, etc.) point to the practical psychosis in two individuals; there was activation of
significance of chemotherapy: slave labor. In the fall of ulcers in two individuals and leukocytosis in one; many
1971 the ICAMI, under a grant from a drug of the subjects suffered from nausea, vomiting, and
manufacturer, set up the first international meeting on tremor." [28]
"Productive Participation of Psychiatric Patients" in Prolixin, jocularly referred to as the "liquid straight
Helsinki. Discussing the outcome of the conference: jacket," is also used at Vacaville, as well as being
Kline writes: "It was clearly recognized that the use of dispersed by the LEAA to Philadelphia's youth gangs. It
appropriate psychopharmaceuticals would play a is a powerful tranquilizer derived from phenotkiazine,
significant role in the social and work rehabilitative which, if given in large doses, produces dangerous and
process."[25] often irreversible side effects. These include "the in-
Kline is well aware that the time has come for his duction of a 'catatonic-like state,' nausea, loss of ap-
Third World efforts to be brought home. "These facts petite, headache, constipation, blurred vision,
are anything but irrelevant for the United States of glaucoma, bladder paralysis, impotency, liver damage,
America today"[26], he writes. The U.S. program of this hypotension severe enough to cause fatal cardiac arrest,
fascist internationalist includes the importation of and cerebral edema."[29]
voodoo as a "therapeutic tool" and the mass dispersal of Young children are another favored target. At least
lithium, a deadly mood changer, through the water 300,000 elementary-school-age children are now hooked
supply, on drugs. The pushers are over-anxious parents,
For such "novelties" Kline's funding reads like a despairing teachers, and sadistic psychologists and
Who's Who of the pharmaceutical companies. Included psychiatrists. These children, some as young as three
are Alcoa, Allied Chemical, Armour, CIBA-GEIGY, years old, are said to be suffering from "minimal brain
Hoffman-LaRoche, Knoll, Eli Lilly, Merck, Pffuzer, dysfuntion(MBD) or "hyperactivity."
Sandoz, Schering, Searle, Smith, Kline and French, While the medical profession is quick to diagnose
Wallance and Wyeth. Four drug firms alone have of- MBD, it becomes completely bewildered when it atfeted
over a half a million dollars' worth of tempts to explain it. "These children are of normal Dr
psychopharmaceuticals. Kline is also heavily endowed by above normal intelligence, but they seem to have a tiny
the U.S. government--particulary NIMH. physiological defect somewhere in the brain that
Kline's goals are well on their way to being met. The prevents them from mastering such crucial skills as
widespread use of drugs throughout institutions, par- reading, writing or arithmetic."[30] Whcre? "Just
ticularly prisons, points to this. somewhere," the doctor will feebly reply. The real
A petition addressed to the California Senate Com- question is who suffers from brain damage? It isn't the
mittee on Penal Institutions by La Raza Unida, a children.
Chicano organization representing prisoners confined in The class of drugs most generally inflicted on such
the California Men's Colony, describes the situation: children are the amphetamines. One of the most widely
"The simple fact that a number of prisoners are walking used drugs is Ritalin, which accretes $13 million profits