| Organized psychiatry and major pharmaceutical | | | | to expand the TeenScreen program in the |
| companies, with the help and blessing of the Bush | | | | Tampa Bay area. Florida Medicaid is also being |
| administration, are busy turning America's future | | | | hijacked. The St. Petersburg Times reported |
| generations into drug-addicts with shattered | | | | earlier this year that, in the last 7 years, the cost |
| self-images and life-long labels as mentally | | | | to taxpayers for psych drugs prescribed to kids |
| defective. If they can survive the common | | | | soared nearly 500%, and cost Medicaid $1,800 |
| psychiatric drug side-effects of suicide, some may | | | | per child in 2006. Of course, the program isn't |
| live long enough to recover their lives through | | | | paying for all the drug detox and drug rehab |
| drug detox and drug rehab programs. | | | | programs for those who wake up and try to |
| The criminal assault on children in the name of | | | | escape the psych-drug collar and leash. |
| profit began in earnest when the | | | | Drug detox for a whole rainbow of drugs? |
| psychiatric-pharmaceutical lobbies pushed the Bush | | | | It's well documented that both TMAP and |
| government into recommending the President's | | | | TeenScreen have been heavily funded by the |
| New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFC) | | | | pharmaceutical industry. And the list of drugs |
| in 2003, which, among a host of changes to the | | | | being pushed on kids are enough to give a drug |
| mental health system, adopted universal mental | | | | detox or drug rehab counselor a migraine. Kids are |
| illness screening and prescribing of psych drugs | | | | being force-fed new generations of SSRI |
| where allegedly needed for all Americans from | | | | antidepressant drugs including Prozac and |
| the age of zero up to the oldest living citizen. This | | | | Cymbalta by Eli Lilly; Paxil marketed by |
| just adds to the problem of 22 million Americans | | | | GlaxoSmithKline; Zoloft by Pfizer; Celexa and |
| already needing drug rehab. | | | | Lexapro from Forest Laboratories; Effexor by |
| The most controversial recommendation is | | | | Wyeth, as well as generic versions sold by Barr |
| screening school children in all 50 states under the | | | | Pharmaceuticals, Ranbaxy Labs and Genpharm. |
| TeenScreen program, and the adoption in many | | | | New atypical antipsychotics include Zyprexa by Eli |
| states of programs like the Texas Medication | | | | Lilly; Risperdal marketed by Janssen |
| Algorithm Project (TMAP), a treatment plan that | | | | Pharmaceuticals, a subdivision of Johnson & |
| orders the use of new, expensive and mostly | | | | Johnson; Abilify by Bristol-Myers Squibb; Clozaril |
| untested psychiatric drugs on all kids "diagnosed" | | | | sold by Novartis, and Geodon by Pfizer. |
| with mental disorders - but only on kids who's | | | | Dr Fred Baughman, a recognized authority on |
| families are covered by public health care | | | | psychotropic drugs, says that psychiatry and the |
| programs such as Medicaid. In other words, if | | | | pharmaceutical industry "married and launched the |
| they can pay, they gotta play. It's doubtful | | | | joint market strategy of calling all emotional and |
| Medicaid will cover the drug rehab they need later. | | | | behavioral problems 'brain diseases', due to |
| The result has been massive, forced and | | | | 'chemical imbalances', needing 'chemical balancers.' |
| wholesale drugging of millions of children across | | | | He calls the use of the chemical imbalance theory |
| the country with addictive and dangerous drugs, | | | | the "biggest health care fraud and mass character |
| all but one of which have never received FDA | | | | assassination" in human history, and says it must |
| approvals for use on children. Only one - Prozac - | | | | be abolished. There is no scientific basis for what |
| has ever scraped through an FDA approval for | | | | is merely a theory, but that doesn't take away |
| kids, but it's been associated with destructive | | | | from the need for drug detox and often drug |
| behavior since the 1980s. This cannot help but | | | | rehab after being exposed to these drugs for any |
| mean that millions of young people actually require | | | | length of time. |
| drug rehab to achieve a normal life. But the label | | | | What's worse, many of the drugs are statistically |
| of mental illness cannot be erased - it will stick | | | | associated with suicidal behavior in children, and |
| forever. | | | | parents are not receiving full disclosure of the |
| TeenScreen is not free, either. It's costing tax | | | | risks. If your kids or the kids of a friend are being |
| payers a big bundle. On November 17, 2004, the | | | | "TeenScreened" and prescribed psychiatric drugs, |
| University of South Florida announced the receipt | | | | call a drug rehab program counselor right away to |
| of a grant of $98,641 from the US Substance | | | | see if drug detox and rehab are needed. |
| Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | | | | |