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