Mental Screening ties to drug companies exposed. Screening for Mental Health (Harvard affiliated) received $500K from Eli Lillly. See: https://ahrp.org/children/mentalscreen/LillyCheck.jpg
TeenScreen hired high powered PR firms whose business is to create promotional campaigns to increase drug sales for its clients.
AdAge reports:
"During a hastily called press conference yesterday,” the FDA announced that it is considering ADDITIONAL warnings on the labels of SSRI drugs—Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, et al.
It is astonishing how untrustworthy loosely given advice about the safety of SSRI antidepressants by medical professionals and academic institutions.
"modern pharmacological treatment may be no more beneficial than older ones, despite their added cost."
"After another four months or so on antidepressants, bringing me to a total of 10 months between the steroids and antidepressants, I was suddenly flipped into this hypomania."
Big Pharma by Jacky Law reveals that in essence, most of the pharmaceutical industry’s claims are false; it is not the drug, but the placebo effect whose potency deserves almost all of the credit for any health improvement:
Authors of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Task Force on SSRIs and Suicidal Behavior in Youth: their known ties to the pharmaceutical industry
Even Dr. Robet Temple, FDA Medical Policy Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation & Research dismisses the claimed finidings of a flawed, but highly trumpeted recent SSRI study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The study was sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health.
"Serotonin and depression: A disconnect between the advertisements and the scientific literature."
"Some 19 million people in the U.S. suffer from depression in any given year. For many, SSRIs help little, if at all. To do better, we have to get the science right." Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal
"Every year, drug companies spend $14 billion to test experimental substances on humans. Across the U.S., the centers that do the testing–and the regulators who watch them–allow scores of human test subjects to be injured or killed."
TeenScreen: the Law Suits Begin Mon, 13 Jun 2005 Newsworthy developments about the duo-drug promotion scam‹TeenScreen & TMAP: A. The first legal challenge against TeenScreen, the mental health screening scheme that is invading the public school system across the nation, declaring otherwise normal children to be mentally ill, has been…
