Mass Drugging of Schoolchildren Remains Dark Secret of Public Education, Psychia

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Mass Drugging of Schoolchildren Remains

Dark Secret of Public Education, Psychiatry

 

Believe it or not, until recently, it has been perfectly legal for

schools to force schoolchildren to be put on psychoactive

mind-altering drugs as a condition of attending that school. That is,

the school administrator or counselor could insist that a certain

child be dosed with mind-altering drugs. It sounds bizarre, but it was

absolutely true until just recently.

 

Finally, Congress has passed legislation that bans schools from

forcing parents to drug their children for behavioral problems. This

law was even signed by President Bush, believe it or not.

 

Now you may think that, gee, this wasn't a problem, I never heard

about this. But in fact it was a huge problem. There have been many

cases where children were denied an education because their parents

refused to put them on narcotic stimulants, antidepressants and other

drugs that we now know cause violent behavior and increased risk of

suicide. There were schools actually forcing parents to put their

children on drugs that would cause aggressive behavior and suicidal

thoughts. And, in extreme cases, these drugs actually caused or

contributed to the kind of mass murders like we saw in Columbine where

the two high school students picked up assault rifles, went to school,

and blew away teachers and classmates. These two kids were on

antidepressant drugs -- it's still one of the most censored stories of

the last decade.

 

Think about it: these kids were taking antidepressants when they blew

away their classmates and teachers. And yet the school districts are

insisting that more children be put on these drugs!

 

Now, I knew there were problems with the public school system, I knew

that a lot of public education was a complete waste of time and that

many public schools are nothing more than taxpayer funded daycare. But

even I was horrified to learn that our public schools are turning into

mental institutions and forcing children to be dosed on psychoactive

drugs just to be there. What happened to the right of children to have

an honest education these days? What happened to the right of parents

to protect their children from the abusive behavior of drug companies

and psychiatrists who irresponsibly over-prescribe these drugs even

though they're increasingly aware of the toxic, dangerous side effects

of these drugs?

 

(By the way, three years ago, anybody who said that antidepressant

drugs cause violent behavior was called a nut case. Now it's a

commonly recognized scientific truth, published in peer-reviewed

journals and widely acknowledged by the scientific community. It just

goes to show you how unpopular it is when you're a few years ahead of

the public perception on these things.)

 

This law has been needed for quite some time. And who was against this

law? Of course, it was the psychiatrists! The community of

psychiatrists did not want to let go of this power, because when you

have the power to force children to take drugs and to force parents to

put children on those drugs, you have consolidated power over entire

communities. That's what the psychiatrists have done -- when

psychiatrists were given the right to prescribe drugs, they were given

power, and they don't want to let go of that power. So they fought

bitterly against this bill and they aren't happy with its passage.

 

But of course, they're continuing to just invent new fictitious

diseases by diagnosing children with so-called mental disorders that

have no verifiable scientific basis whatsoever. These diseases are

completely fictional (like " social anxiety disorder " and " attention

deficit hyperactivity disorder " ). The hallucinations, it seems, are in

the minds of the psychiatrists, not in the minds of the children. And

when it comes to behavioral disorders, if you want to calm down the

children and help them pay attention and learn more effectively,

you've got to look at nutrition, not drugs. You have to get the sugar

out of their diets, you have to take the food additives and the

hydrogenated oils and the high-fructose corn syrup out of their diets.

When you do that, 80% of these children that have been diagnosed with

ADHD become non-ADHD children in two weeks or less. 80%. All you've

got to do is take these food additives out of their diet, and all of a

sudden they're normal, wonderful children who can learn and focus.

They don't need drugs.

 

The threshold for drugging children is far too low in this country --

we have far too many people interested in the power, the profits and

the control of drugging children. And it is laws like this that we

need passed in this country. We need people to know (especially

parents) that they don't have to agree to having their children dosed

on toxic drugs. They have the right to say no! They have the right to

protect their children from the ambitions of psychiatrists, the

megalomania of an industry that wants to drug entire populations, and

the profit-seeking ambitions of the pharmaceutical industry.

 

What's interesting is that one of the main proponents of this bill was

the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). Other groups that

supported this law include the National Association for the

Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Foundation of

Women Legislators (NFWL), and Parents for a Label and Drug Free Education.

 

You may wonder why the NAACP, in particular, backed legislation like

this. The answer is because it was predominantly black children who

were being labeled as problem children and dosed with these drugs. The

black community in America is watching an entire generation be dosed

up with mind-altering drugs. That's as sad as anything I've ever seen

in this country. Instead of helping these young black children get an

honest education and get the skills that they need to succeed in life,

we had psychiatrists and drug companies just putting them on drugs

that basically numb their brains to the point where, sure, they're no

longer a behavioral problem, but they're not learning anything either.

How does that help society? It doesn't. All it does is create another

high school dropout who can't function because they didn't get an

honest education.

 

I'm going to be called a racist for saying this (like I care), but

here goes: there are a lot of white psychiatrists drugging the heck

out of low-income black children and calling it " medicine. " That's not

medicine, that's a chemical assault on the children of America. And

frankly, African Americans have every right to be outraged about it.

 

So let's stop drugging our children and let's start teaching them for

a change. Let's get the psychiatrists out of our schools and get the

drug companies away from our children. Why is it that we teach our

children to " just say no to drugs, " and then we turn around and dose

them up on powerful narcotics anyway? What kind of message does that

send to our nation's youth?

 

While we're at it, let's start paying teachers honest salaries so that

we can attract and retain high-quality people into the teaching

industry. Let's start funding our schools with the money they need to

actually provide quality education and let's have some serious school

reform so that we can eliminate the old bureaucracy that currently

runs our public schools all across the country.

 

We have a system of education here that's 200 years old; nothing much

has changed! We still have chalkboards, erasers and stodgy lecture

formats for conveying information to students. We need something new

in our schools, and there are a lot of hard-working teachers and

administrators who have great ideas but are shut down by the

bureaucracy and psychiatrists who insist on drugging the students. Let

these people have a chance to get some work done, to do the teaching

they want to do, to put new ideas into action and see what works in

terms of educating our children. I believe that teachers are teachers

for the right reason -- they want to work with children; they want to

help children learn. We need to give them the tools and the funds that

they need to be better teachers, and that means making sure our kids

are off of drugs so they have the state of mind necessary for learning.

 

Because right now, we're not raising a generation of smart,

well-educated children. We're producing a wave of over-diagnosed,

over-drugged, over-labeled children who are increasingly incapable of

functioning as productive citizens in society.

NewsTarget.com, 24th March 2005

Source: http://www.newstarget.com/005629.html

 

Let's Stop Drugging Our Kids

by Keith Hoeller

 

 

Another teenager has shot and murdered schoolchildren, and those who

believe that " mental illness " is the cause of all our social problems

have offered the standard explanation and usual solution: This child

suffered from a mental illness, and if only someone had seen the

symptoms and notified mental-health authorities, he would have

received an accurate diagnosis and the proper medication, and the

tragedy could have been prevented. If only Red Lake High School

student Jeff Weise had been placed on antidepressant medications,

psychiatrists say, then this murder/suicide would never have happened.

The story is usually followed by calls for more mental-health

screening and treatment of our nation's schoolchildren.

 

In most of the recent cases of school shootings, however, the signs

were noticed: The child was reported to mental-health authorities,

received a psychiatric diagnosis, was put on medications and was

taking them when he pulled the trigger. It was true with Eric Harris

of Columbine and Kip Kinkel in Oregon, as well as 10 other youths.

This may be the tip of the iceberg, because this information is often

kept confidential and out of the papers, even when a murder occurs.

 

Now news reports indicate Weise, who murdered nine in Red Lake, Minn.,

before turning the gun on himself, had been suicidal and was committed

to a mental hospital. He began taking an antidepressant last summer,

and his dosage had been increased a week before the shootings,

according to the New York Times.

 

In 2003 Britain banned antidepressants for use in children and

adolescents, and last year Health Canada issued a stern warning about

these drugs, noting " clinical trial and post-marketing reports (of)

.... severe agitation-type adverse events coupled with self-harm or

harm to others. "

 

This year, the Food and Drug Administration has mandated a black-box

label on antidepressants warning of the potential for increased

suicidal thoughts and behavior with children and adolescents. Yet, as

Vera Sharav of the Alliance for Human Research Protection, has said:

" Journalists continue to be beguiled by speculative scientific

hypotheticals which psychiatrists discuss as though they have been

proved. Misinformation is transmitted to the public about unproven

'chemical imbalances' in the brain of depressed people - - when, in

fact, no evidence exists demonstrating any chemical or structural

brain abnormality in people diagnosed with a mental illness. "

 

Indeed, the papers are full of quotes of psychiatrists claiming that

depression is a serious medical disease caused by a serotonin

imbalance in the brain. But no conclusive scientific evidence exists

to support this theory. In " Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs

and Mental Health " (Free Press, 1998), neuroscientist Eliot Valenstein

says, " Although it is often stated with great confidence that

depressed people have a serotonin or norepinephrine deficiency, the

actual evidence contradicts these claims. It is not now possible to

measure norepinephrine and serotonin in the brains of patients. "

 

Not surprisingly, psychiatrists have never developed any physical test

to detect depression or any mental illness, and all diagnosis is done

based solely on symptoms. In other words, antidepressants and all

other psychiatric medications are not in fact being prescribed to

treat bona fide diseases.

 

Yet, whenever anyone criticizes the drugs, psychiatrists shout about

the increased risk of suicide if patients stop taking their

antidepressants, despite the fact that no antidepressant has ever been

tested on suicidal patients and therefore never approved by the FDA as

safe and effective in preventing suicide.

 

President Bush included an unprecedented call for mandatory

mental-health screening of schoolchildren in his recent budget.

Violating the rights of parents to just say " no " to psychiatric

diagnosis and treatment of their children, this idea originated in the

president's New Freedom Commission.

 

According to a study last year in the Lancet, U.S. psychiatrists,

pediatricians and family practitioners wrote 11 million prescriptions

for antidepressants for children in 2002. All the signs indicate this

method of dealing with our children is not working. It is high time

for both parents and schools to find a different method of dealing

with troubled children. To paraphrase Shakespeare's " Julius Caesar, "

the fault is not in our children's brains or genes, but in ourselves.

It is to our own treatment of children that we must look to find an

answer to their problems -- and ours.

San Francisco Chronicle, 30th March 2005

 

CHR International (Citizens Commission on Human Rights) has been

working to expose the link between violence/suicide and psychiatric

drugs since 1991 when it first testified before the U.S. Food and Drug

Administration (FDA).

www.cchr.org

 

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: I applaud the drive to expose this criminal

drugging up of our children, not forgetting the routine treatments

given to the elderly in care homes. Psychiatry has grown bloated with

profit over the misery of those who trusted it to help them with their

problems. For a full, damning indictment of psychiatry and the 'mental

health' industry, please obtain a copy of my award-winning book, The

Mind Game, which goes into detail about the myth of 'mental disease'

and what you can do about it.

 

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