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<div class="hnews hentry item">[[File:f358.png]] '''<span class="url entry-title">[http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/07/01/sci_psy/index.html Scientology's war on psychiatry]</span>''' <span class="updated">July 1, 2005</span>, <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Katharine Mieszkowski</span>, <span class="org organization-name">Salon</span></span>
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<span class="entry-content">But the Church of Scientology's war on psychiatry is no joke. For decades, Scientologists have maintained that the very notion of mental illness is a fraud. They base this belief on the views of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, who proclaimed that psychiatry was an evil enterprise, a form of terrorism, and the cause of crime. Now, they're attempting to enshrine their contempt for psychiatry in laws across the country.

Recently, Scientologists have promoted legislation in Florida, Utah and New Hampshire that seeks to discredit psychiatry and drug therapies, especially for kids. The laws would penalize, even criminalize, schoolteachers who recommended mental health treatments to students or parents. At the same time, Scientologists have infiltrated the public schools, promoting a drug abuse program that presents information -- that drugs like marijuana and LSD, for instance, accumulate in body fat and create constant cravings -- roundly dismissed by medical experts.</span>
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