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> > MindFreedom International News - 24 Oct. 2005
> > http://www.MindFreedom.org - please forward
> >
> > Exposing President Bush's Plans
> > for Massive Psychiatric Screening of
> > the USA Wins a "Project Censored"
> > Alternative Media Award
> >
> > Project Censored is considered the
> > "alternative Pulitzer Prize" by some
> > journalists. This Saturday, 22 Oct.,
> > Project Censored awarded the "Top 25
> > Censored Stories of 2006" -- important
> > news that mainstream media covers up.
> >
> > Number 11 in the Top 25 is journalist
> > Jeanne Lenzer whose series of articles
> > in the _British Medical Journal_ showed
> > how President Bush is calling for "mental
> > health screening" for children and adults
> > in the USA in a plan that could result
> > in hundreds of thousands of more citizens
> > being placed on psychiatric drugs without
> > adequate protection of human rights.
> >
> > Even though President Bush calls for
> > making this psychiatric screening "common
> > practice" throughout the USA the
> > corporate mainstream media has largely
> > refused to inform their readers.
> >
> > BELOW is the forwarded announcement
> > from Project Censored including an
> > UPDATE from Jeanne Lenzer:
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > #11 Universal Mental Screening Program
> > Usurps Parental Rights
> >
> > Sources:
> >
> > Asheville Global Report (British Medical
> > Journal), No. 284, June 24-30, 2004
> >
> > Title: "Bush Plans To Screen Whole U.S.
> > Population For Mental Illness"
> >
> > Author: Jeanne Lenzer
> >
> > http://www.agrnews.org/issues/284/#2
> >
> > Truth News, September 13,2004
> >
> > Title: "Forcing Kids Into a Mental Health
> > Ghetto"
> >
> > Congressman Ron Paul
> >
> > http://www.truthnews.net/world/2004090078.htm
> >
> > In April of 2002, President Bush
> > appointed a 22 member commission called
> > the President's New Freedom Commission on
> > Mental Health in order to "identify
> > policies that could be implemented by
> > Federal, State and local governments to
> > maximize the utility of existing
> > resources, improve coordination of
> > treatments and services, and promote
> > successful community integration for
> > adults with a serious mental illness and
> > children with a serious emotional
> > disturbance."1 Members of this commission
> > include physicians in the mental health
> > field and at least one (Robert N.
> > Postlethwait) former employee of
> > pharmaceutical giant Ely Lilly and Co.
> >
> > In July of 2003 the commission published
> > the results of their study. They found
> > that mental health disorders often go
> > undiagnosed and recommended to the
> > President that there should be more
> > comprehensive screening for mental
> > illnesses for people of all ages,
> > including pre-school age children. In
> > accordance with their findings, the
> > commission recommended that schools were
> > in a "key position" to screen the 52
> > million students and 6 million adult
> > employees of our nation's schools.2
> >
> > The commission also recommended linking
> > the screenings with treatment and
> > support. They recommended using the Texas
> > Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) as a
> > model treatment system.3 TMAP, which was
> > implemented in Texas' publicly funded
> > mental health care system while George W.
> > Bush was governor of Texas,4 is a disease
> > management program that aids physicians
> > in prescribing drugs to patients based on
> > clinical history, background, symptoms,
> > and previous results. It was the first
> > program in the United States aimed at
> > establishing medication guidelines for
> > treating mental health illnesses.5
> > Basically, it is an algorithm that
> > recommends specific drugs which should be
> > used to treat specific diseases. Funding
> > for TMAP was provided by a Robert
> > Wood-Johnson Grant as well as several
> > major drug companies. The project began
> > in 1995 as an alliance of individuals
> > from pharmaceutical companies, the
> > University of Texas, and the mental
> > health and corrections systems of Texas.6
> >
> > Critics of mental health screening and
> > TMAP claim that it is a payoff to
> > Pharmaceutical companies. Many cite Allen
> > Jones, a former employee of the
> > Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector
> > General. He was fired when he revealed
> > that many key officials who have
> > influence over the medication plan in his
> > state received monetary perks and benefits
> > from pharmaceutical companies, which
> > benefited from their drugs being in the
> > medication algorithm. TMAP also promotes
> > the use of newer, more expensive
> > anti-psychotic drugs. Results of studies
> > conducted in the United States and Great
> > Britain found that using the older, more
> > established anti-psychotic drugs as a
> > front line treatment rather than the
> > newer experimental drugs makes more
> > sense. Under TMAP, the Ely Lilly drug
> > olanzapine, a new atypical antipsychotic
> > drug, is used as a first line treatment
> > rather than a more typical anti-psychotic
> > medication. Perhaps it is because Ely
> > Lilly has several ties to the Bush
> > family, where George Bush Sr. was a
> > member of the board of directors. George
> > W. Bush also appointed Ely Lilly C.E.O.
> > Sidney Taurel to a seat on the Homeland
> > Security Council. Of Ely Lilly's $1.6
> > million political contributions in 2000,
> > 82 percent went to Republicans and George
> > W. Bush.7
> >
> > In November of 2004, Congress
> > appropriated $20 million8 to implement
> > the findings of the New Freedom
> > Commission on Mental Health. This would
> > include mandatory screening by schools
> > for mental health illnesses. Congressman
> > Ron Paul, R-Texas introduced an amendment
> > to the appropriations bills which would
> > withhold funding for mandatory mental
> > health screenings and require parental
> > consent and notification. His amendment,
> > however, was voted down by a wide margin
> > (95-315 in the House of
> > Representatives).9 Paul, a doctor and
> > long-time member of the American
> > Association of Physicians and Surgeons
> > (AAPS) states, "At issue is the
> > fundamental right of parents to decide
> > what medical treatment is appropriate for
> > their children. The notion of federal
> > bureaucrats ordering potentially millions
> > of youngsters to take psychotropic drugs
> > like Ritalin strikes an emotional chord
> > with American parents." Paul says the
> > allegation "that we have a nation of
> > children with undiagnosed mental
> > disorders crying out for treatment is
> > patently false," and warns that mental
> > health screening could be used to label
> > children whose attitudes, religious
> > beliefs, and political views conflict
> > with established doctrine. Paul further
> > warns that an obvious major beneficiary
> > of this legislation is the pharmaceutical
> > industry. The AAPS has decried this
> > legislation, which they say will lead to
> > mandatory psychological testing of every
> > child in America without parental
> > consent, and "heap even more coercive
> > pressure on parents to medicate children
> > with potentially dangerous side effects."
> >
> > Update by Jeanne Lenzer:
> >
> > Whether it's the pills we take or the oil
> > we use, it would be reassuring to know
> > that the information used to develop new
> > medicines or to utilize natural resources
> > wisely is based on science--not corporate
> > spin.
> >
> > But blandishments from Big Pharma to
> > politicians and doctors have a profound
> > effect on health care in the U.S., making
> > medical research closer to propaganda than
> > science at times.
> >
> > One way drug companies, in collusion with
> > doctors, increase their market share is to
> > expand the definition of diseases. When
> > diagnostic criteria were liberalized for
> > attention deficit disorder in 1991, the
> > number of children diagnosed jumped by
> > about 60 percent.
> >
> > The American Psychiatric Association
> > (APA) acknowledged in the July 2004 issue
> > of Advocacy News that, "The BMJ story has
> > gained some traction in derivative
> > reports on the Internet." But, they
> > boasted, "mainstream media have not
> > touched the story, in part thanks to
> > APA's work, for which the [Bush]
> > Administration is appreciative."10
> >
> > The APA's boast is curious. The article
> > was the most downloaded article in the
> > history of the BMJ. It clearly struck a
> > nerve with a public wary of doctors and
> > politicians whose pockets are lined with
> > drug company money.
> >
> > Given the interest in the BMJ story, it
> > would seem that the APA, instead of
> > attempting to keep the story out of the
> > mainstream media, would be anxious to
> > counter the widely circulated statements
> > in the article. It would also seem that
> > the mainstream press could provide the
> > Administration and the APA the best
> > possible vehicle to counter these
> > supposed factual errors in the BMJ
> > article.
> >
> > But, the facts might prove difficult to
> > square with the public. More than one in
> > every 100 toddlers and preschoolers in
> > the United States are on powerful
> > psychiatric drugs, such as Ritalin and
> > Prozac, according to a study published in
> > the February 2000 issue of the Journal of
> > the American Medical Association.
> >
> > Joseph T. Coyle, M.D., wrote in an
> > accompanying editorial, "It appears that
> > behaviorally disturbed children are now
> > increasingly subjected to quick and
> > inexpensive pharmacologic fixes, as
> > opposed to informed mutimodal therapy."
> > He concluded, "These disturbing
> > prescription practices suggest a growing
> > crisis in mental health services to
> > children and demand more thorough
> > investigation."
> >
> > But instead of issuing warnings about
> > overmedication or inappropriate
> > prescribing, the experts on the New
> > Freedom Commission warn ominously that
> > too few children are receiving treatment
> > for mental illness. They cite escalating
> > numbers of toddlers expelled from daycare
> > as evidence of potentially serious
> > psychological problems--problems to be
> > diagnosed and cured with mental health
> > screening and pills. Social and economic
> > reasons for the rise in kiddie expulsions
> > are left unexamined.
> >
> > As bad as this is for those put on drugs
> > and labeled "mentally ill," the far
> > bigger concern is the creation of a
> > disease for every drug, a situation made
> > possible by the hand-in-glove
> > relationship between industry and the
> > government.
> > NOTES
> >
> > 1. http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/.
> >
> > 2.
>
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39078.
> >
> > 3.
>
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39078.
> >
> > 4.
>
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39078.
> >
> > 5. http://www.news-medical.net/?id=3084.
> >
> > 6.
>
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39078.
> >
> > 7.
>
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39078.
> >
> > 8. http://www.truthnews.net/world/2004090078.htm.
> >
> > 9.
>
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41606.
> >
> > 10. See Medicating Aliah:
> >
>
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/medicating_
> aliah.html.
> >
> > - end of announcement -
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Please feel free to forward.
> >
> > Above announcement is from
> >
> >
>
http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2006/index.htm#11
> >
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> > by MindFreedom International
> > http://wwww.MindFreedom.org.
> >
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> >
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> >
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