Fwd: [SSRI-Research] Reasons Why SB 1390 Is Being Kept in Cold Storage...

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Of course ADD is a complex issue and is serious. Some children are suffereing

damage done to them by toxic chemical exposures in their food, air, water, and

homes. This includes many iatrogenic causes that they have aquired at their

doctor's offices also. Sometimes this damage is done prior to their being born.

 

Some are suffering from nutritional deficiencies due to the poor nutritional

quality of their diet or their mother's diet.

 

There really is an epidemic and it is exploding in our societies. It is a very

complex and serious issue and one that will not be easily solved because all the

big business interests involved will not come under suspicion and usually be

protected by those who should be looking out for the public's interests.

 

Frank

 

 

JustSayNo

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:29:39 -0500

[sSRI-Research] Reasons Why SB 1390 Is Being Kept in Cold Storage...

 

GET INVOLVED - STOP FORCED DRUGGING OF OUR CHILDREN!

 

FORCED MEDICATING OF RITALIN & PROZAC ETC. ARE THE REAL REASON FOR THE HUGE

UNWARRANTED & UNJUSTIFIED INCREASE IN " SPECIAL EDUCATION " IN OUR SCHOOL

ENVIRONMENT. SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS & TEACHERS ARE NOT LICENSED MEDICAL

DOCTORS AND SHOULD BE CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED FOR MAKING OUR CHILDREN TAKE

SUCH DRUGS WITHOUT FORCED PARENTAL CONSENT AND UNDER THE THREAT OF SOCIAL

SERVICES ACTION AGAINST PARENTS WHO DON'T WANT DRUGS GIVEN TO THEIR KIDS ! !

 

TAKE ACTION NOW

 

Saturday, November 15, 2003

 

Should the government force drugs on kids?

By Samuel Blumenfeld

 

Posted: November 15, 2003

1:00 a.m. Eastern

 

A bill (HR 1170) to prevent schools from forcing parents to drug their kids

diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Disorder was passed by the U.S. House

of Representatives on May 21 by a vote of 425 to 1. The legislation, the

" Child Medication Safety Act of 2003 " (SB 1390) was introduced in the Senate

by Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., where it is being kept in cold storage.

 

The House passed the bill overwhelmingly - and with good reason. The forced

drugging of American schoolchildren has become pandemic, and it is time to

put a stop to this psychiatric abuse of American children.

 

But something happened to this bill on the way to the Senate. The

pharmaceutical and mental-health lobby got to the senators on the Health,

Education, Labor and Pension (H.E.L.P.) Committee before the bill arrived.

Democrat members of that committee include such liberal heavyweights as Ted

Kennedy, Christopher Dodd, Conn., Tom Harkin, Iowa, Barbara Mikulski, Md.,

Jim Jeffords, Vt., John Edwards, N.C., and Hillary Clinton, N.Y. Concerned

parents contacted Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd to get their support. So far,

the reply has been negative. Yet, all of these senators are the most

vociferous supporters of public education.

 

On Nov. 4, the Subcommittee on Substance Abuse held a hearing to which no

parents supporting the bill were invited. The one parent who did attend was

one acceptable to the mental-health lobby. That subcommittee is chaired by

Sen. Mike DeWine, Republican from Ohio. The ranking member is Ted Kennedy of

Massachusetts.

 

There are between 4 and 6 million schoolchildren now taking psychotropic

drugs daily so that they can attend school. There must be something wrong

with an education system that requires so many children to be drugged just

to attend school.

 

Last year, I spent a week in Beijing, China. During that week, I visited a

school where I was able to observe about 500 children doing their morning

physical exercises in the schoolyard. I asked my host how many of these

children were on Ritalin. He asked me what Ritalin was. He had never heard

of it. In short, in China they don't have ADD, and they don't drug

schoolchildren.

 

Are American children more mentally handicapped than Chinese children? Are

they afflicted with a mental disease that is more prevalent in the United

States than anywhere else on the globe?

 

Many parents, against their better judgment, have been forced by the schools

to put their children on medication because teachers are finding it more and

more difficult to handle their frustrated, angry pupils.

 

But why do these youngsters become behavioral problems? In many cases it's

because of how they were being taught to read. As an expert on the teaching

of reading, I can attest that these children are the victims of the

whole-language method that creates so much learning frustration that many

children become disruptive and violent. For the school, drugs, not more

effective teaching methods, are the only solution.

 

American children should not be required to ingest cocaine-like stimulants

in order to let the teachers off the hook. Parents should not be forced to

drug their children to satisfy the school's dysfunctional curriculum.

 

There was no ADD or Ritalin when I was going to school in the 1930s and

'40s. And that's because you simply could not have an attention deficit

disorder in the kind of classrooms that existed then: clean, quiet and

orderly. We sat in desks bolted to the floor, and the teacher was the focus

of our attention. She taught everyone the same thing, using time-tested

teaching methods that were rational and effective. There were no

distractions. The walls were bare except for a picture of George Washington.

 

But let's fast-forward to the classrooms of today. Not clean, quiet and

orderly, but chaotic, messy and disorderly. Now children are seated around

tables, pestering one another, socializing, coughing in each other's faces.

The walls are plastered with every kind of visual distraction – from Mickey

Mouse to dinosaurs. The teacher is no longer the focus of attention. She's a

facilitator wandering around the room, using the most irrational methods of

teaching. These classrooms are incubators of ADD.

 

Since it is unlikely that this chaotic classroom configuration will be

changed by the educators or legislators, we can expect more ADD and ADHD in

the future. But one thing can be done: The Congress can restore to parents

their rights to govern their own children's education and medication.

Powerful psychotropic drugs have no place in sane, rational education.

 

Phone your senator and get them moving on this bill.

 

 

 

 

 

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