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