In 1995, the state of Texas launched the Texas Medication Algorithm Project.
This needs to be stopped so that many thousands if not millions of children
will be saved from receiving stigmatizing diagnoses that would follow them for the
rest of their lives. America’s school children should not be medicated by expensive,
ineffective, and dangerous medications based on vague and dubious diagnoses.”
Congressman Ron Paul, an OB/GYN physician for over 30 years, is desperately trying to keep the drug companies, politicians and federal bureaucrats from becoming parents to your children. Dr. Paul will introduce on Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning (whenever the floor schedule allows) an amendment to the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Act for FY 2005 that will withhold funds for this new federal mental-health-screening program.
Dr. Paul’s letter says in part: “As you know, psychotropic drugs are increasingly prescribed for children who show nothing more than children’s typical rambunctious behavior. Many children have suffered harmful effects from these drugs. Yet some parents have even been charged with child abuse for refusing to drug their children. The federal government should not promote national mental health screening programs that will force the use of these psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin.”
I was just about to look it up.
Our President has quite a history but his born again puttin the stopper in the bottle seems to have totally erased the record (or lack thereof).
Unbelievable.