Big Pharma and Big Brother join forces to drug children (April 2007)

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:

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.

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Sorry to burst your bubble. I understand that big pharma is very, very, lucrative. Good for you. I just hope you don’t work for one of those companies that kills people during clinical trials. Oops.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/24/AR2007102402514_pf.html

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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.

We're talking BILLIONS here.

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Bill number HR 2387, the Parental Consent Act of 2007 was introduced in the House of Representatives “To prohibit the use of Federal funds for any universal or mandatory mental health screening program.”

It has only 20 cosponsors, listed here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR02387:@@@P

Congressional directory if people want to find out why their Rep isn’t a cosponsor:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

The Findings section of the bill notes some pretty scary stuff - a short excerpt:
“(5) Because of the subjectivity of psychiatric diagnosis, it is all too easy for a psychiatrist to label a person’s disagreement with the psychiatrist’s political beliefs a mental disorder.

“(6) Efforts are underway to add a diagnosis of “extreme intolerance” to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Prisoners in the California State penal system judged to have this extreme intolerance based on race or sexual orientation are considered to be delusional and are being medicated with anti-psychotic drugs. (Washington Post 12/10/05)

“(7) At least one federally-funded school violence prevention program has suggested that a child who shares his or her parent’s traditional values may be likely to instigate school violence.”

link to full text of the bill:
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc110/h2387_ih.xml

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One more thing:
Here’s a list of schools by state that have implemented this program with names and contact info for those school boards — it’s not a complete list since according to the Columbia website they’ve implemented this in over 400 locations already but it’s the best I’ve found:
http://www.teenscreen-locations.com/index.htm

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