SAMHSA Promotes Infant and Child Screening & Drugging
SAMHSA Director: “The New Freedom Commission (NFC) report is not official Bush Administration policy, but rather the unofficial recommendations of an appointed commission.”
Disease Mongering_Conference / PLoS Special Issue
"Are we becoming patients for profit? That is the question knowledgeable observers are asking.
CATIE study results Contradict Current Clinical Practice & Treatment Guidelines
Newly published results (phase II) from the CATIE schizophrenia treatment efficacy study sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health comparing the most commonly used second generation drug treatments for schizophrenia and depression, is highly disturbing.
TeenScreen – “Under Intense Criticism Nationally”
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports (below): "TeenScreen, developed by a Columbia University professor, has come under intense criticism nationally."
Comparison of Suicide Rates in Treated Schizophrenia Patients Found 20-Fold Increase
An analysis published in the current issue of the British J of Psychiatry (BJP) of the suicide rate among schizophrenia patients treated at the same hospital in North Wales (UK) before psychotropic drugs and patients treated (in and out of hospital) with neuroleptics and /or atypical antipsychotics, found a 20-fold increase in the suicide rate since use of psychotropic drugs.
Polypharm & New Antipsychotics Not More Beneficial-Just More Expensive
"modern pharmacological treatment may be no more beneficial than older ones, despite their added cost."
Jane Pauley- from Steroids to mania to depression to Bi-Polar-to Drugs for Life
"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."
Coalition letter to Charles Curie, Administrator, SAMHSA
We are, however, very distressed at what appears to us to be a significant discrepancy between your statements and the reality of SAMHSA’s role in implementing the NFC report recommendations, as well as other discrepancies between your statements and SAMHSA’s actions.
National Plan for Universal Mental Health Screening:A Pharma Friendly Remedy for Societal Problems
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Slide 2: I’ll begin with the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health[1] recommendation to screen the US population for mental illness – 52 million children first. In no other democratic country has the government adopted a policy to screen the population for presumed, undetected, mental illness. The rationale behind this mind-boggling Orwellian nightmare is not improving mental health, but rather increasing life-long consumers of psychoactive drugs and to control behavior. Two NFC recommendations are designed to do just that. TeenScreen is promoted as a suicide prevention model when it in fact, increases the number of children labeled suicidal and depressed.
States Protest Contributions to Drug Plan – New York Times
States Protest Contributions to Drug Plan – New York Times Tue, 18 Oct 2005 The New York Times reports: “On Monday, the administration unveiled a new online tool to help Medicare beneficiaries choose a prescription plan from the dozens of plans available in each state. But some of the information…
Russian Roulette Medicine: More kids get multiple psychiatric drugs
Russian Roulette Medicine: More kids get multiple psychiatric drugs Wed, 3 Aug 2005 Stop the madness! Child psychiatrist, Joseph Penn, advises: “Parents shouldn’t passively accept whatever doctors recommend for children with behavior or psychiatric problems.” “We just don’t have the efficacy or safety data to back up what is common…
TeenScreen: the Law Suits Begin
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…