“JUST SAY NO!” TO UNIVERSAL PSYCHIATRIC SCREENING AND DRUGGING CHILDREN

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ACTION NEEDED!

 

TELL SENATE TO " JUST SAY NO! " TO UNIVERSAL

 

PSYCHIATRIC SCREENING AND DRUGGING CHILDREN

 

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· Senate meets in lame duck session next week to pass

appropriations bill.

 

· Bill includes funding for universal mental health screening &

recommendations for treating children with psychotropic drugs.

 

· Contact your Senators this week and tell them to withdraw this

funding.

 

· Click-through to send letter to your Senators in less than a

minute.

 

· Physicians: Print out flyer for your patients!

 

· Please forward this message to everyone.

 

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The Senate will re-convene next week in a lame duck session with the

sole purpose of passing an omnibus appropriations bill – work left

incomplete before the elections.

 

 

 

Included in the current version of the appropriations bill is funding

for grants to implement universal mental health screening for almost

60 million children, pregnant women, and adults through schools and

pre-schools.

 

 

 

The bill would fund initiatives of the " New Freedom Commission on

Mental Health, " including a program designed to subject every school

age child in this country to psychological testing and recommendations

for treatment.

 

 

 

The House has already voted to appropriate $20 million for the scheme,

and the Senate wants to bump it up to $44 million.

 

 

 

This is a dangerous scheme that will heap even more coercive pressure

on parents to medicate children with potentially dangerous side

effects. Further, even the government's own task force has concluded

that mental health screening does little to prevent suicide.

 

 

 

Tell the Senate leadership to remove the funding for grants to

implement the recommendations of the New Freedom Commission in Mental

Health from the omnibus appropriations bill.

 

 

 

Take action now and tell the Senate not to fund any programs that call

for universal mental health screening of our children.

 

 

 

Here's how to help:

 

 

 

EVERYONE:

 

We now have an easy, one-step way for everyone to send a letter to

their Senators, courtesy of the Health Action Center run by " Citizens

for Health. "

 

 

 

All you need to do is

 

 

 

Enter your name and address, and a letter will automatically be sent

to your

 

Senators, with your signature. It takes about one minute.

 

 

 

 

 

DOCTORS & HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS:

 

If you are a doctor, CLICK HERE to download a one-page flyer to copy

and distribute at your office and hospital starting today!

 

 

 

Association of American Physicians & Surgeons

 

1601 Tucson Blvd. Suite 9

 

Tucson, AZ 85716

 

(800) 635-1196

 

(520) 325-4230 Fax

 

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