Look folks, I hope this thread is freeped for what I am about to post. Maybe some of those idiots will see what is about to happen. I know we have talked about mental health testing before on here. I KNOW PERSONALLY a person who was a presidential apointee for President Clinton and works for the ADA. He just sent me this email.
I am angry, furious, and yes SCARED ! Read it and decide....What in the name of Heaven are we gonna do about this maniac Bush! The person who sent me this email was the one who got me the invitation to have dinner with Vice President Gore and in to see president Clinton. He worked in the West Wing.
We need to make some noise about this. Even Patch Adams is protesting this !
This writer of this email is a friend of mine and holds a PHD and himself is disabled. He is in D.C. and so is his organization.
A new plan by the Bush administration to test the nation's
public school population for mental disorders and treat
them with controversial drugs has raised an alarm among
some medical science watchdogs and members of the mental
health community.
The White House is expected to announce a mental health and
disability initiative that recommends the screening and
treatment of the country's K-12 students. The plan is based
on a Texas program a government whistleblower has called "a
Trojan horse" for pharmaceutical companies.
As first reported by bmj.com, the website for the medical
news weekly the British Medical Journal, the plan is
derived from findings by the President's New Freedom
Commission on Mental Health, a committee of doctors and
mental health care professionals established in 2002.
Published by the New Freedom Initiative (NFI), the report
recommends states start testing for and treating mental
disorders as early as possible, focusing on students, who
can be easily accessed in the public school system.
The mental health component of the plan is based on the
Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), which was
engineered during Bush's tenure as governor. An algorithm
is a flow chart that helps psychiatrists identify and
medicate a patient's condition.
The New Freedom Initiative reported that "despite their
prevalence, mental disorders often go undiagnosed," and
recommended a screening program for "consumers of all
ages," including pre-school children. The commission found
that schools are in a "key position" to influence the
phenomena of young children being "expelled from preschools
and childcare facilities for severely disruptive behaviors
and emotional disorders." To do so, the NFI said that
"state-of-the-art treatments" were in order, and praised
TMAP for showing "results in better consumer outcomes."
The American Psychiatric Association, which itself receives
some funding from drug companies, has hailed the
commission's conclusions as a sound preventative approach
to dealing with mental illness.
Critics of the plan, however, point to strong connections
between the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health and the
pharmaceutical industry, and they contend that the plan
will be a financial boon to drug companies while
compromising the mental health of the nation's children.
Holistic mental health advocate David Oaks, director of
MindFreedom, a coalition of groups that campaigns for
people diagnosed with psychiatric disabilities, says the
issues of child mental health are not only more complicated
than just testing for disorders and putting kids on drugs,
but also colored by powerful societal pressures and
millions of dollars in drug revenues. Oaks says the
president's plan amounts to little more than "No child left
undrugged."
"It's very unimaginative. The idea sounds good: get help
for the kids," Oaks said. "But the mental health machine
tends to label, label, label." The labeling, said Oaks, all
too often stigmatizes children as "abnormal."
"We're not happy to say the least," said Patricia Weathers,
president of Ablechild: Parents for Label and Drug Free
Education. "It's going to increase the drugging of
children."
Oaks says he believes the template for the NFI's plan
originates in the kind of extreme treatments misdiagnosed
patients suffered in "the back wards" of clinics and
asylums of the past, like forced drugging or electroshock
therapies.
"This
been going on for years," said Oaks. "The
psychiatric model has been mainstreamed. And
now, the system's coming for all of us."
Labeling, says Weathers, places a great deal of stress on
families to raise a "normal" child. "It's almost like a
parent is beaten down. You want in a
mainstream school, not in a special needs school."
Weathers said her own son was dismissed from the public
educational system because of her refusal to continue to
drug him at the school system's request after school
officials diagnosed him as having ADHD.
"Parents are losing their children" to drugging and
labeling regimens, she says. "We need to look at the
underlying causes, and not be so quick to think a child has
mental problems.
"Instead of saying having trouble reading, and
giving him an educational resource, they say, 'oh well,
he's ADD'," she said. In the case of her son, Weathers said
he had physical conditions, among them anemia, that may
have been hindering his educational progress.
Criticism of the NAI plan, or at least the blueprint for
it, has not been limited to the grassroots. In 2002 Allen
Jones, a former investigator for the Office of the
Inspector General in Pennsylvania, had been looking into
the propriety of an off-the-books account that originated
within the Pennsylvania Department of Mental Health.
According to Jones, when he went to the New York Times and
bmj.com with accusations that the drug company Janssen may
have been attempting to influence the formation of a TMAP-
style test and treat plan, he was told to "quit swimming
upstream." When he refused to quiet down, he was fired, he
added.
In a whistleblower report posted on the Law Project for
Psychiatric Rights' website, Jones elaborated on his
charges, and explained that during its pilot stage, TMAP
was packed with doctors who had strong ties to the drug
industry. Jones said that ties to the drug companies gave
them a financial incentive to recommend expensive, brand
name drugs, rather than cheaper comparable medicines.
Jones also writes that a number of the New Freedom
Initiative for Mental Health Commission members were linked
to TMAP's founding or are advocates for the program's
expansion in states like Maryland and Ohio.
The NFI plan, said Jones, "doesn't have the Orwellian goal
of drugging the populace for a political purpose; it's the
Orwellian goal of drugging the populace for an economic
purpose."
Nationally, pharmaceutical companies have been generous in
doling out campaign contributions to the former Texas
governor and his party. According to the Center for
Responsive Politics, the pharmaceutical industry has given
President George W. Bush $764,274 so far this election
cycle, making the president the number one recipient of
campaign donations of either party from the pharmaceutical
industry.
Johnathan (Moderator)
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Trust me, this is no Burkette ! These people were friends with Justin Dart (late) who help write the Americans with Disabilities Act ! and connected to the major ADA organizations all over. This is explosive stuff ! Why are we talking CBS?
There is more here but I sugest you go to the link and read about the shock treatments and taking kids.
http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/bush_psychiatry.shtml
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