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.