[S-A] Help Defeat Mandatory Mental Health Screening for Kids

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> Fri, 10 Sep 2004 02:19:32 -0000

> [s-A] Help Defeat Mandatory Mental Health

Screening for Kids

>

> 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

>

>

> 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

> Director of Public Affairs

> Weston A. Price Foundation

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