Posted on 10/27/2007 6:18:43 PM PDT by ddtorquee
Launched by an Executive Order in April of 2002 under the guise of expanding the scope of 1990's Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health has since received the official sanction of the U.S. Congress...
This commission is the driving force behind a massive policy shift that will literally turn public schools into mental health screening centers...all parents of public school children are supposed to be receiving written notice of these new federally mandated mental health screening policies. Some will also get permission slips to sign that will allow school counselors or other non-medically-educated bureaucrats to evaluate children for such nebulous things as "happiness indicators."
What kind of horse-manure is this? Anybody who's ever raised a teenager knows that..."happiness indicators" can be few and far between in that age group...it means they're normal!
This just further proves that the New Freedom Initiative ISN'T about bettering children's mental health. It's about drug profits. And to give you a snapshot of how much money is at stake, here's an info-bite from the WorldNet article I referenced extensively in part 2 of this series:
Eli Lilly's top-selling drug is the antipsychotic Zyprexa, with $4.2 billion in annual sales worldwide. Owing in part to its "first-line" treatment status in the TMAP program (the Texas project on which the New Freedom Initiative is based), 70% of Zyprexa sales are to government agencies like Medicare and Medicaid…
Now, imagine how high this percentage would be (and how much higher the drug's gross sales would be) if the TMAP model were to be nationalized - which is, in effect, what the New Freedom Initiative would do. And remember, this is only for ONE DRUG! The New Freedom Initiative could conceivably mandate cramming dozens of psychotropic drugs down our kids' throats.
(Excerpt) Read more at douglassreport.com ...
John Dewey lives on!
“Psychology can help to constitute Great Communities in which human beings might flourish.”
And drugs for everyone can lead us to this godless utopia.
Having been to India and Thailand visiting Pharma plants, you're welcome to your "savings." I wouldn't give those products to my dogs.
This so called Dr. is cited in Quackwatch:
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That doesn’t surprise me. Good find.
more from WorldNetDaily: “A sweeping mental health initiative will be unveiled by President George W Bush in July. The plan promises to integrate mentally ill patients fully into the community by providing “services in the community, rather than institutions,” according to a March 2004 progress report entitled New Freedom Initiative. While some praise the plan’s goals, others say it protects the profits of drug companies at the expense of the public....
The commission commended the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) as a “model” medication treatment plan that “illustrates an evidence-based practice that results in better consumer outcomes.”
...the Texas project, which promotes the use of newer, more expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs, sparked off controversy when Allen Jones, an employee of the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General, revealed that key officials with influence over the medication plan in his state received money and perks from drug companies with a stake in the medication algorithm (15 May, p1153). He was sacked this week for speaking to the BMJ and the New York Times.
The Texas project started in 1995 as an alliance of individuals from the pharmaceutical industry, the University of Texas, and the mental health and corrections systems of Texas. The project was funded by a Robert Wood Johnson grant – and by several drug companies.
Mr Jones told the BMJ that the same “political/pharmaceutical alliance” that generated the Texas project was behind the recommendations of the New Freedom Commission, which, according to his whistleblower report, were “poised to consolidate the TMAP effort into a comprehensive national policy to treat mental illness with expensive, patented medications of questionable benefit and deadly side effects, and to force private insurers to pick up more of the tab”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39078
Here is a list of districts that have confirmed that they have ceased using TeenScreen or will not implement it:
http://www.teenscreen-locations.com/noteenscreen.htm
you forgot the headline from this article: BDS ALERT
Bush to screen population for mental illness
Of course, it’s Bush’s fault!!!
Here’s a list of schools by state that have implemented this program:
http://www.teenscreen-locations.com/index.htm
Link of interest at 47
Read my tagline please.
i like the song.
Eagle Forum: “No Child Left Unmedicated” http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2005/mar05/psrmar05.html
Sure. Unfortunately, it's just as illegal for Americans to shop around in, say, Basel Switzerland.
THANK GOD, NO....
WHY would I want such a drug?
Big parents need to take their little children out of Big Government Schools and tell Big Liberal sacks of $hit to go to Big Hell.
MY doctor’s Newsletter is cited there also....Nutrition and Healing......QuackWatch is quackery of another kind.
P.S....just because a RA Doc diagnosed me with “RA” doesn’t mean I have it.....he and all the others were WRONG....and luckily I’m not into drugs.....so after 2 appts....I declined his services and went elsewhere, to other docs who try to get to the BOTTOM of a problem, not slap some drug on top of it. RA docs LOVE their patients.....it’s a constant revenue stream....
This is sick and dangerous.
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