please read about mass mental screening on children and drugging of our youth

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Friends, a very controversial screening of our children "mental

health" and the subsequent drugging of them with medications not

approved for use in children is spreading across the US in our

schools. Parents should know about this and speak out, sign the

petition and spread the word to ALL. I will post more if there is an

interest here. LOVE! Lisa

 

A very strong message is now being sent to school board members and

state and federal legislators

who are presented the TeenScreen petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html

700 Doctors have now signed the petition! Not to mention all the

other health care professions!

 

Have you presented it to your local officials? You can easily send it

to them via e-mail from the chair your're sitting in.

 

And don't forget to bcc all your local newspapers! Let us know if

anything runs in your local newspapers. Media is being compiled here:

www.psychsearch.net/news.html

 

 

 

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=18805

 

Do Legalized Drug Pushers Influence TeenScreen?

Raise your hand if you think that a drug company’s main purpose is to

help mankind? In a perfect world that would be the case, but instead,

welcome to Planet Earth. The Board of Directors of any drug company

has but one obligation to their stockholders â€" to provide a good

return on their investment by increasing revenue and profits.

 

Since the 1980’s, the drug industry has been one of the most

profitable industries in the world, on par with oil and banking

industries. IMS Health, a company that heralds themselves as “the one

global source for pharmaceutical intelligenceâ€, stated that in 2005,

North American pharmaceutical sales were at $265.7 billion.

 

Drug companies hammer us with the propaganda on how much money is

spent on research, and that out of the millions spent on research, few

drugs make money. One could easily be led down this path of deception

but careful research shows that the real drug company spending is not

research, but marketing.

 

The top ten pharmaceutical companies invest about 14% of their profits

in R&D (Research and Development). However, about 35% is spent on

marketing. For every $1.00 spent on research, $2.50 is spent promoting

the drugs to the public. These billions of dollars in marketing

include drug promotions during nearly every television commercial

break, handing out free samples and propaganda to family doctors,

sponsoring lavish medical conferences at expensive resorts, and

“research grantsâ€.

 

Millions are also spent on helping to create and support various front

groups like NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and CHADD

(Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)

which forward the drug company’s marketing message covertly. Millions

more are spent in lobbying Congress to protect drug company profits.

The U.S. government is the largest bulk buyer of drugs, after

Wal-Mart, but the "Social Security Prescription Drug Benefit Program"

forbids the government from negotiating drug prices with Big Pharma!

 

A typical “breakthrough†in drug research is merely a drug company in

partnership with a university announcing and marketing their own

version of a previously released drug for the same disorder. The FDA

will approve the new drugs, when provided with short-term studies

where the drug companies purportedly show that the drug performs

better than a placebo. In 2002, the FDA approved the use of

seventy-eight new drugs but only classified seven of these drugs as

improvements over older drugs.

 

Drug company money is funneled into all kinds of research. For

instance, the doctors who created "Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder"

(PMDD) were funded in part by Eli Lilly Corporation. By “provingâ€

their drug Prozac treats a new “diseaseâ€, Lilly was able to extend the

patent on the drug for seven more years. Now the exact same drug is

marketed under a new name, "Sarafem", to treat women with PMDD. Their

slogan became, “Think it’s PMS? It could be PMDD.†Think it's a

marketing ploy? You bet it is! Patented drugs are sold at drastically

higher prices than non-patented drugs.

 

Another marketing ploy used is to advertise the name of the drug

without stating its use. This allows the company to avoid mentioning

the huge list of side effects.

 

Big Pharma doesn’t stop there. They are now busy making huge donations

to pseudo-scientific and official-sounding mental health organizations

and screening programs to push even more customers onto their drugs.

 

“Signs of Suicide†is a program developed by the non-profit group

“Screening for Mental Health, Inc.†Tax records show that donations

from 2001-2004 included money from Solvay Pharmaceuticals: $27,500,

Pfizer: $750,000, Abbott Laboratories: $35,000, Forest Labs: $153,000,

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: $100,000, and Eli Lilly: $2,157,925. Why would

drug companies donate millions to implement mental health screening if

not to increase revenue and profits?

 

TeenScreen, an invention of psychiatrist David Shaffer, is a screening

program which uses questionnaires on children as young as nine, asking

questions like, "Have you often felt very nervous when you’ve had to

do things in front of people?" and "Are you Hispanic or Latino?" Based

on their answers, TeenScreen routes these kids to mental health

“professionals", who inevitably decide that these children have

symptoms defined as “mental disordersâ€, justifying prescriptions for

antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs for many of these

children. TeenScreen’s staff and advisory board are loaded with ties

to Big Pharma. See:

http://www.teenscreentruth.com/teenscreen_advisory_board.htm

 

TeenScreen’s Director, Laurie Flynn was formerly the head of NAMI

National. Between 1996 and mid 1999, NAMI received over 11 million

dollars from the drug companies: Janssen ($2.08 million), Novartis

($1.87 million), Pfizer ($1.3 million), Abbott Laboratories ($1.24

million), Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals ($658,000), Bristol-Myers

Squibb ($613,505) and Eli Lilly $2.87 million.

 

The scandals of TeenScreen are not limited to drug company

connections. Laurie Flynn also perjured herself in front of a Senate

Subcommittee, stating that TeenScreen had partnered with the

University of South Florida and were piloting the program in

Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. Yet there were never any pilot

programs in these two counties. In fact, the school board of Pinellas

County soundly rejected TeenScreen, partially because of Flynn’s false

testimony. One school board member was quoted as saying, “I will not

do business with an organization that has gone to Congress and told

them something that is not true.â€

 

In 2003, drug regulators in the United Kingdom recommended that

antidepressants not be used to treat children under eighteen years of

age, because of studies showing that the risks greatly outweighed any

possible benefit. This is now law and included in their drug warnings.

However, at the request of Pfizer, TeenScreen’s David Shaffer created

a letter which attempted to block the findings of the U.K. drug

regulators.

 

The results of pushing these dangerous drugs on children and adults

include: murder, psychosis, brain damage, liver and heart damage,

suicidal thoughts, attempted suicides and actual suicide â€" all known

side effects of psychiatric drugs. How many children and young adults

have to be permanently damaged or killed before we just say "NO!" to

these legal drugs and to TeenScreen? Now ask yourself, "Who are the

criminals?"

 

Everyone knows that drugs are big business, and the only difference

between street dealers, drug lords and Big Pharma is that Big Pharma

is legal. Whether your child is hooked by a dealer or by a

psychiatrist, the end result will be the same.

 

For the time being, the psychiatric drug trade is legal. As long as

this is the case, drug companies have a legal right to market their

wares and make a profit. They do not have a right to slither into

schools in order to find new profit centers amongst our children. The

public has a right to know the truth about these criminal activities

and we all have a responsibility to protect our next generation from

unwanted intrusions into their lives for profit.

 

Special Note: Thousands of concerned citizens have already recognized

who the criminals are and have taken decisive action to stop their

intrusion into the lives of young people. Join them by clicking on

this link: http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html

 

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John Carey has degrees in Chemical Engineering and Computer Science

from Texas A&M, and has worked for a major oil company for over 20

years. As a humanitarian endeavor, he has researched extensively on

the psychiatric drugging of children. He can be reached here:

john_carey_2-45 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com