Help Defeat Mandatory Mental Health Screening for Kids

[Guest guest]

How incredible is this- if you are considered a " defender of the US

Constitution against federal government and the UN " you would be

considered mentally unstable, and require medication... WHAT?!

Very few things do I think most people can agree about, but how can

an American not be a defender of the US Constitiution- that is the

essence of what makes us American... This is an insult and should

be an outrage to all of us... Republican, Democratic, Independent-

all of us...

Please help spread the word...

Misty L. Trepke

http://www..com

 

HELP DEFEAT MANDATORY MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING FOR CHILDREN

 

WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION

URGENT ALERT

September 8, 2004

 

HELP DEFEAT MANDATORY MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING FOR CHILDREN

 

The American tradition of parents deciding what is best for their

children is, yet again, under attack. The pharmaceutical industry

has convinced President Bush to support mandatory mental-health

screening for every child in America, including preschool children,

and the industry is now working to convince Congress as well. But

mandatory screening alone is not what the pharmaceutical industry

wants. The real payoff for the drug companies is the forced

drugging of children that will result -- as we learned tragically

with Ritalin -- even when parents refuse.

 

Congressman Ron Paul, an OB/GYN physician for over 30 years, is

desperately trying to keep the drug companies, politicians and

federal bureaucrats from becoming parents to your children. Dr.

Paul will introduce on Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning

(whenever the floor schedule allows) an amendment to the Labor, HHS,

and Education Appropriations Act for FY 2005 that will withhold

funds for this new federal mental-health-screening program. He will

urge his congressional colleagues to support his effort in a letter

to be distributed Wednesday morning.

 

Dr. Paul's letter says in part: " As you know, psychotropic drugs are

increasingly prescribed for children who show nothing more than

children's typical rambunctious behavior. Many children have

suffered harmful effects from these drugs. Yet some parents have

even been charged with child abuse for refusing to drug their

children. The federal government should not promote national mental

health screening programs that will force the use of these

psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin. "

 

Please help. Urge your U.S. representative to support the Paul

amendment and ask family and friends to do the same. To send your

message, go to http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?

module=URLTracker & cmd=track & j=76

89964 & u=63426.

 

If you think this action alert is about something that " can't happen

here, " think again. In 1995, the state of Texas launched the Texas

Medication Algorithm Project. (WorldNetDaily.com, June 21, 2004)

 

The state of Illinois has also approved a mental health screening

program. The Illinois legislature passed the Children's Mental

Health Act of 2003 which will provide screening for " all children

ages 0-18 " and " ensure appropriate and culturally relevant

assessment of your children's social and emotional development with

the use of standardized tools. " In addition, all pregnant women in

Illinois are to be screened for depression.

 

Dr. Karen R. Effrem, another physician and leading opponent of

mandatory screening recently stated, " Universal mental health

screening and the drugging of children, as recommended by the New

Freedom Commission [presidential commission], needs to be stopped so

that many thousands if not millions of children will be saved from

receiving stigmatizing diagnoses that would follow them for the rest

of their lives. America's school children should not be medicated

by expensive, ineffective, and dangerous medications based on vague

and dubious diagnoses. "

 

Dr. Effrem warns of the following:

 

1. Parental rights are unclear or non-existent under these screening

programs.

2. Parents are already being coerced to put their children on

psychiatric medications and some children are dying because of it.

3. Mental health screening does not prevent suicide.

4. Mental health diagnoses are " subjective " and " social

constructions " as admitted by the authors of the diagnostic manuals

themselves.

5. Most psychiatric medications do not work in children.

6. The side effects of these medications in children are severe.

7. The untoward influence by the pharmaceutical industry, or at

least the impropriety, is abundantly clear in two important aspects

of this issue.

8. Merging screening with the academic standards required by No

Child Left Behind, as is happening in Illinois, will lead to

diagnosis for political reasons. School mental health and violence

prevention programs funded by NCLB and government counterterrorism

operations are already using such criteria as " homophobia "

and " defenders of the US Constitution against federal government and

the UN " to label school children and US citizens as mentally

unstable and violent.

 

Join concerned citizens from Eagle Forum, Gun Owners of America, the

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Concerned Women of

America, Freedom 21, the Alliance for Human Research Protection, and

the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology

to get Dr. Paul's amendment passed.

 

One last note...if mental-health screening for every American child

isn't bad enough, how about mandatory mental-health screening for

every American adult? Yes, that's coming too. The final report of

the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

states, " Both children and adults will be screened for mental

illnesses during their routine physical exams. "

 

Please help. Urge your U.S. representative to support the Paul

amendment and ask family and friends to do the same. To send your

message, go to

http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?

module=URLTracker & cmd=track & j=76

89964 & u=63427

 

After you've sent your message, forward to your family and friends

the following page:

http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?

module=URLTracker & cmd=track & j=76

89964 & u=63428

 

Kent Snyder

The Liberty Committee

 

Details of Dr. Effrem's Points:

http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?

module=URLTracker & cmd=track & j=76

89964 & u=63429

 

" Bush to screen population for mental illness " by WorldNetDaily.com

http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?

module=URLTracker & cmd=track & j=76

89964 & u=63430

 

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Bill Sanda of Public Affairs

Weston A. Price Foundation

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