President Says U.S. Must Make Commitment to Mental Health Care
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Psychiatry and the State (Excerpt)
by Dennis Behreandt
The federal government plans a new role in delivering mental health care. Historically, however, governments have used psychiatric techniques for harm rather than good.
On April 29, 2002, President George W. Bush issued an executive order creating a new commission charged with finding ways to improve Americas mental health service delivery system. One year later, the Orwellian-sounding New Freedom Commission on Mental Health released its findings. Its final report recommended mental health screening for all Americans and, in a proposal that should alarm parents everywhere, recommended that the nations schools be used to assess the mental health of all schoolchildren.
President George W. Bush wants to have American citizens, beginning with all school age children, examined by psychiatrists. "The New Freedom Initiative is a plan to screen the entire U.S. population for mental illness and to provide a cradle-to-grave continuum of services for those identified as either mentally ill or at risk of becoming so. Under the plan, schools would become hubs of the screening process, not only for children, but for their parents and teachers. There are even components aimed at senior citizens, pregnant women, and new mothers. "In April 2002, President Bush established the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health to conduct a 'comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system.' The commission issued its recommendations in July 2003, chief among them being that schools are in a 'key position' to screen the 52 million students and 6 million adults who work at educational facilities." This Draconian federal program began in Texas while G.W. Bush was Governor. It was called the Texas Medication Algorithm Project as an alliance between the pharmaceutical industry, the University of Texas, and the mental health and corrections systems of Texas. Now that Bush is President, he has begun implementing the program at the national level. |
This is a waste of taxpayer dollars and it's intrusive. It's no secret that a pillar of communism is to nix the parents and put the state in their place as the ultimate authority. The feds are going too far.
Good info, scary post.