[Diogenesis]

Big pharmacy’s goal is not cure, but to put every person
on a series of drugs..... for their entire life.

[the invisib1e hand]

big-business-is-big-government-in-disguise alert.

[oyez]

Big pharmacy will go to this if guaranteed health-care happens. How else will it survive if the government takes their profit motive away? Liberals are now finding ways to get business to think like governments.

[Calpernia]

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[DoughtyOne]

I'm sorry folks, but if you think the drive of the left and their pocket psychologists are second to the pharmaceutical companies, to drug our children, I think you need to re-evaluate who it is that has tried everything they can to brainwash our children.

I'm not saying that the pharmaceutical companies are going to take a pass on profits, but they are not the ones driving this effort to medicate our chidlren.

IMO, there is no reason whatsoever to provide anything more than first aide at our schools.  PERIOD.

Upon recommendation from the school, parents should have their children evaluated for the need to have them medicated.  If the parent objects, they should pull the kid out and never go back.  It should not be done by people with a vested interest in controling the behavior of children they cannot control.

[Calpernia]

related:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574836/posts
The UN Plan for Your Mental Health (UNESCO)

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

I can’t remember, which book do I need to reread, Brave New World or 1984?

This is scary.

[Coleus]

Diet breakthrough for ADHD

 

Health Experts Warn of Antidepressant Dangers for Children, Teens

[eleni121]

John Dewey lives on!

“Psychology can help to constitute Great Communities in which human beings might flourish.”

And drugs for everyone can lead us to this godless utopia.

[crazyshrink]

This so called Dr. is cited in Quackwatch:

Nonrecommended Periodicals
I consider these publications untrustworthy because they promote misinformation, espouse unscientific theories, contain unsubstantiated advice, and/or fail to distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources of advice. The magazines and journals marked with an asterisk (*) also carry ads for questionable products, services, and/or publications. Few newsletters carry ads for products. Those marked with a double asterisk (**) have been accompanied by questionable solicitations.

Dr. William Campbell Douglass’ Real Health

http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/nonrecperiodical.html

[ddtorquee]

more from WorldNetDaily: “A sweeping mental health initiative will be unveiled by President George W Bush in July. The plan promises to integrate mentally ill patients fully into the community by providing “services in the community, rather than institutions,” according to a March 2004 progress report entitled New Freedom Initiative. While some praise the plan’s goals, others say it protects the profits of drug companies at the expense of the public....

The commission commended the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) as a “model” medication treatment plan that “illustrates an evidence-based practice that results in better consumer outcomes.”

...the Texas project, which promotes the use of newer, more expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs, sparked off controversy when Allen Jones, an employee of the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General, revealed that key officials with influence over the medication plan in his state received money and perks from drug companies with a stake in the medication algorithm (15 May, p1153). He was sacked this week for speaking to the BMJ and the New York Times.

The Texas project started in 1995 as an alliance of individuals from the pharmaceutical industry, the University of Texas, and the mental health and corrections systems of Texas. The project was funded by a Robert Wood Johnson grant – and by several drug companies.

Mr Jones told the BMJ that the same “political/pharmaceutical alliance” that generated the Texas project was behind the recommendations of the New Freedom Commission, which, according to his whistleblower report, were “poised to consolidate the TMAP effort into a comprehensive national policy to treat mental illness with expensive, patented medications of questionable benefit and deadly side effects, and to force private insurers to pick up more of the tab”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39078

[upsdriver]

Big parents need to take their little children out of Big Government Schools and tell Big Liberal sacks of $hit to go to Big Hell.

[TigersEye]

This is sick and dangerous.

[socialismisinsidious]

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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