Americans Don't Believe Me: Mental-Health-Screening-Is-Coming-Your-Way

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September 03, 2004

 

 

Americans Don't Believe Me:

Mental-Health-Screening-Is-Coming-Your-Way

 

Thanks to the razor sharp capturing antennas of Sepp

Hasslberger, I have been reporting here before of this

" cutting-edge " initiative that the US Government is

taking forward.

 

But believe me, what strikes me most, is not the news

story per se, which is just short of outrageous, but

the near total silence of those who, especially in the

blogosphere, could inform and share the pretty scary

insider tracks into this.

 

Here is a short excerpt from an article in the

Illinois Leader, a conservative newspaper...

 

 

" As Illinois prepares to become the first state to

implement President Bush's New Freedom Commission on

Mental Health, controversy is brewing around the

nation over its " Orwellian " mandates, as one observer

called them.

http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/

 

So far, only Internet sites are exploring the

controversy, with newfound information traveling

throughout a nationwide network of " intelligence "

gatherers and disseminators on a daily basis.

 

The concerns are sweeping - over pharmaceutical

influence on the Food and Drug Administration and

medical profession, over lack of or faulty clinical

trials, and over political corruption.

 

The Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership,

charged with putting the Children's Mental Health Act

http://www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=18658

into action and overseeing its implementation, stated

in its preliminary plan last month it will " explore

strategies for maximizing the purchase of psychotropic

drugs from the state Pharmacy at discount prices.

 

Where T-Map is implemented fully, children in

state care, prison inmates, and patients in state

mental hospitals are all subject to the use of these

algorithms. "

 

If you yet cannot believe what you have just been

reading, consult directly the Screening for Mental

Health web site for more " official " information.

Enjoy:

 

Screening for Mental Health, Inc. (formerly the

National Mental Illness Screening Project) is a

nonprofit organization developed to coordinate

nationwide mental health screening programs and to

ensure cooperation, professionalism, and

accountability in mental illness screenings.

 

http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/

 

 

Article excerpt:

 

Illinois, eye of national mental health storm by

Rhonda Robinson

 

© 2004 IllinoisLeader.com -- all rights reserved

 

Illinois Leader [via Health Supreme] -- Reference

 

Posted on September 03, 2004 at 01:23 PM