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[Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

Health Freedom At Risk: Compulsory Drugging of Children

Action Step: Go to  
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=18970 
to urge Congress to support the Child Medication Safety Act, S. 891 to 
protect kids and their parents from school-driven health fascism.

EPIDEMIC OF FORCED DRUGGING STRIKES!

Under the guise of "Public Health" and "Mental Health", our children are 
being exposed to highly profitable, but dangerous, and potentially 
lethal, medication against parents wishes.  In this letter we will take 
a look at a number the ways in which forced drugging of children is 
either already taking place or is in the works.  Using deceptive and 
incorrect "information", unvalidated and unscientific "screening" tools 
created by the drug companies and the increasingly invasive police power 
of the state to over ride parental rights, children are exposed to 
iatrogenic -doctor induced- mis treatment, removal from their homes to 
dangerous and abusive foster care and the emotional trauma of these 
abuses.  These violations of our health freedoms and of the future of 
our country -since we are damaging huge numbers of our young people - 
must stop.  And it is up to us to stop it.
Vaccinations, with all their well-documented dangers, psychoactive 
medication, with its fearsome brain and behavioral damage, forced 
chemotherapy come to mind. 

PHONY SCREENING, FANTASY DIAGNOSES, REAL DAMAGE

In this email we will talk about the phony "screening" of children and 
adolescents like "Teen Screen" is a huge industry and a major health 
hazard since they frequently result in unwarranted, knee jerk diagnoses 
of children and, in the vast majority of cases, in a prescription for 
dangerous psychiatric drugs.
Fact: Teen Screen has no scientific validity and is a marketing ploy to 
sell dangerous drugs which may cause irreversible harm to children and 
teen agers to a new market: healthy children.

Fact: Teen Screen has never been shown to reduce suicidality in children 
while anti depressants and anti psychotic drugs are well documented to 
increase the risk of suicidal thoughts, attempts and successful 
suicides.  In fact, these drugs often carry "Black Box" warnings to 
alert consumers to the increased risk of suicidal thoughts and actions 
in people taking them.

Here is what PsychSearch.net has to say about Teen Screen: TeenScreen is 
a very controversial so-called "diagnostic psychiatric service", aka 
suicide survey; done on children who are then referred to psychiatric 
treatment. The evidence suggests that the objective of the psychiatrists 
who designed TeenScreen is to place children so selected on psychotropic 
drugs.

"It's just a way to put more people on prescription drugs," said Marcia 
Angell, a medical ethics lecturer at Harvard Medical School and author 
of "The Truth About Drug Companies". She said such programs will boost 
the sale of antidepressants even after the FDA in September ordered a 
"black box" label warning that the pills might spur suicidal thoughts or 
actions in minors. (The New York Post, December 5, 2004)

TeenScreen is based on the thoroughly discredited "Diagnostic and 
Statistical Manual".

*How Teen Screen Works *

TeenScreen lures kids as young as 9 years old into taking the suicide 
survey by offering them free movie passes, food coupons, "I completed 
TeenScreen" stress balls, pizza parties and candy bars - if they consent 
to the procedure.

One tactic TeenScreen officials use is to sell the child on the suicide 
survey first and after they have the child's agreement, they later 
contact parents.

TeenScreen Project Coordinator, Kathleen Cigich, was quoted as saying: 
"We found early on, though, that sending out letters directly to parents 
is prohibitively time consuming and gets a low response rate. We 
thought, why not go to students themselves and offer a $5 video store 
coupon to anyone who brings back a parental consent form within a 
two-day turnaround period. It works. Our response rate is extremely high."

*Passive Consent: No Parents Need Respond*

TeenScreen also utilizes a "passive consent form"  which requires no 
written parental approval.  The passive consent form is sent home to 
parents and if they DON'T return it TeenScreen considers that the 
parents approve. TeenScreen officials favor passive consent because they 
say it boost their chances of screening kids to 95% as opposed to the 
written parental consent technique. What if the child forgets to bring 
the consent form home? What happens if the parent is too busy to refuse 
in writing? They've consented in the eyes of TeenScreen personnel.

*IMPLANTING IDEAS*

Next, the child is given a paper and pencil test over about 10 minutes 
with highly suggestive and meaningless questions like:

   * Has there been a time when nothing was fun for you and you just
     weren't interested in anything?
   * Has there been a time when you felt you couldn't do anything well
     or that you weren't as good-looking or as smart as other people?
   * How often did your parents get annoyed or upset with you because
     of the way you were feeling or acting?
   * Have you often felt very nervous when you've had to do things in
     front of people?
   * Have you often worried a lot before you were going to play a sport
     or game or do some other activity?
   * Have you tried to kill yourself in the last year?
   * Are you still thinking of killing yourself?
   * Have you thought seriously about killing yourself?
   * Have you often thought about killing yourself??
   * Have you ever tried to kill yourself?

Normal children answering honestly will endorse at least one of the 
first 5 questions.  That is enough to get them "diagnosed" with one 
supposed mental health disorder or another.

*Check, Check, Check, Have We Got a Diagnosis for You!*

The child then sees a mental health adviser and a check list is 
administered to confirm the "diagnosis" and earn the child a referral. 
Click 
(http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen_screening_information_form.pdf) 
to see the mental health check list used to assign a diagnosis.  Next, 
it's off to a psychiatrist and then the real tragedy begins.  Up until 
now, it was merely a matter of violating parental rights, persuading 
children they are ill when they may just be normal children, taking time 
away from legitimate school activities, inserting intrusive and 
potentially dangerous ideas into impressionable kids and damaging the 
self-image and ego of the child (perhaps permanently).  Once a 
psychiatrist gets involved, however, things get very, very dangerous.

*When Parental Judgement Becomes Medical Neglect*

Many states in the US have given themselves the authority to compel 
parents to medicate their children (even if they do not believe the 
child should be taking meds) OR RISK LOSS OF PARENTAL CUSTODY. The child 
will be either medicated by the parents (often under Court order) or 
taken away from the family and placed in foster care.  Children in 
foster care are, sadly, all too frequently abusively medicated, sexually 
and physically molested/abused and emotionally damaged, sometimes to 
horrifying degrees.

In some states, the drugging craze has gone so far that school personnel 
are permitted to refuse to allow children into school if they are not 
medicated with potent, and dangerous, psychiatric drugs.


--
Keith Johnson
"Be fruitful and mulch apply."
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