ACTION ALERT: $20 Million Approved By Congress to Screen US Population for Mental Illness

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> ACTION ALERT: $20 Million Approved By

> Congress to Screen US Population for " Mental

> Illness "

>

> The House Appropriations Committee Funds President’s

>

> New Freedom Commission Initiative That Includes Plan

> To Screen All U.S. Citizens For Mental Illness –

>

> Tell Congress and the White House NO MENTAL

> SCREENINGS FOR AMERICANS AND NO FUNDING FOR THIS

> PLAN!

>

> Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee

> approved $20 million in new federal dollars to begin

> implementation of the plans set forth by the New

> Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFC) to get

> every man, woman and child in America “screened” for

> “mental illness.”

>

 

> Amidst broad public concern that many of the

> antidepressants being prescribed to Americans are

> under federal investigation for causing suicidal

> reactions, the New Freedom on Mental Health

> Commission’s campaign for national mental health

> “screening” – will result in millions more Americans

> being diagnosed with fraudulent and unscientific

> mental disorders, and prescribed dangerous and

> deadly psychiatric drugs.

>

 

> Now, $20 million has been approved by the House

> Appropriations Committee for “State Incentive

> Transformation Grants,” in order to begin nationwide

> implementation of the New Freedom Commission on

> Mental Health’s plan. It’s the beginning of a

> “Brave New World” should the Senate fund this.

>

>

> The Commission based its entire findings on the

> definition of mental illness as defined by

> psychiatry’s billing bible, the American Psychiatric

> Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of

> Mental Disorders (DSM). The methods of mental

> health “screening” recommended by the New Freedom

> Commission are lists of arbitrary questions based on

> this DSM. If this “sweeping mental health

> initiative” is implemented, millions more American’s

> will certainly be diagnosed and drugged given the

> subjective diagnoses.

>

>

>

> FACTS:

>

>

> Ø The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health’s

> report states that “mental illnesses are shockingly

> common,” but neglects to address or even mention the

> fact that there is no medical or scientific means by

> which to diagnose mental “illnesses.” Psychiatrists

> and mental health proponents promote psychiatric

> “disorders” as a disease, or an illness that can be

> diagnosed in the same manner as real physical

> illness. This is a fraud. There are no blood

> tests, brain scans or chemical imbalance tests to

> validate any mental disorder as an illness or

> “disease.” With no scientific/medical criteria to

> substantiate these claims, anyone could be diagnosed

> as mentally ill based solely on a checklist of

> behaviors.

>

>

> Ø The DSM contains hundreds of psychiatric

> mental “disorders” which are a list of behavioral

> symptoms that are literally voted into existence and

> inserted into the DSM. Such diagnoses include

> “Caffeine-Related Disorder,” “Mathematics

> Disorder,” “Disorder of Written Expression,” and

> the all-encompassing “Phase of Life Problem.” These

> “disorders” are simply a classification of symptoms

> that are drastically different from, and foreign to,

> anything in medicine.

>

>

> Ø The New Freedom Commission is blatantly

> promoting the coercive and manipulative tactics that

> have led to millions of children being falsely

> labeled with mental disorders in our public schools.

> Schools have become mental health clinics where

> children are diagnosed based on subjective

> questionnaires, instead of given proven educational

> solutions. This fact was substantiated by a report

> from the President’s Commission on Excellence in

> Special Education, which found that 2.4 million

> children had been diagnosed with mental “disorders”

> and placed in Special Education, when in fact these

> children had simply not been taught to read.

>

>

> Ø The issue of coerced child drugging in public

> schools has become so prevalent that the U.S. House

> of Representatives passed the Child Medication

> Safety Act in May 2003, to prevent schools from

> forcing a parent to drug their child as a condition

> of attending school.

>

>

> Ø Due to psychiatric influence, parents have

> been reported to Child Protective Services and

> charged with medical neglect for refusing to give

> their child a psychiatric drug, such as those

> currently under investigation for causing suicidal

> reactions. Parents have been charged with “medical

> neglect” for refusing psychiatric treatment –

> despite the fact that there is no scientific proof

> that there is anything medically wrong with the

> child.

>

>

> Ø In a recent report by Allen Jones, a former

> investigator in the Pennsylvania Office of Inspector

> General (OIG), Bureau of Special Investigations,

> condemning the New Freedom Commission (NFC), he

> states, “Despite a nearly 500% increase in American

> children being prescribed mental health drugs during

> the past 6 years, the New Freedom Commission on

> Mental Health found that not enough adolescents are

> benefiting from mental health treatment. The NFC

> recommendations prominently call for mandatory

> mental health screening for all high school

> students, with follow-up ‘treatment’ as required –

> this means more kids on mind-altering and

> potentially lethal psychiatric drugs.”

>

>

 

> WHAT TO DO:

>

>

>

> 1) Oppose any federal, state, or local plans for

> universal mental health screening. Contact the

> White House (202-456-1111), the Speaker of the House

> (Rep. Hastert at 202-225-2976) and the Senate Leader

> (Senator Frist at 202-224-3344), your own Members of

> Congress (go to www.congress.org), the House

> Education and Workforce Committee Chairman John

> Boehner at 202-225-6205, and the Senate Health,

> Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman

> Judd Gregg at 202-224-3324 and tell them to STOP

> funding this New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

> plan in the Labor/HHS appropriations bill. Alert

> your state legislators and oppose school board

> initiatives to add psychiatric screening programs.

>

>

 

> 2) Support the Child Medication Act (S. 1390)

> currently stalled in the Senate by Senator Edward

> Kennedy - This legislation prohibits schools from

> coercing parents to place their children on

> psychiatric medications that are on the controlled

> substances list. Senator Kennedy, with large support

> from pharmaceutical companies, has not let this very

> modest proposal even receive a hearing, saying that

> it needs more study. Senator Kennedy (202-224-4543)

> as well as Senator Gregg (202-224-3324) the

> Committee chairman, and Senate Majority Leader Bill

> Frist (202-224-3344) need to hear from the public.

>

>

> 3) Check to see if your state has a provision in

> state special education law that prohibits a school

> district from overriding parental refusal to submit

> their child to a special education or mental health

> evaluation. If yes, alert other parents, and if

> not, work for one.

>

>

> Peter Dockx

>

>

> Government Affairs

>

>

> CCHR International

> For Health Freedom,

> John C. Hammell, President

> International Advocates for Health Freedom

> 556 Boundary Bay Road

> Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA

> http://www.iahf.com

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