The federal government wants to perform mental health screening on infants and get them started on drugs which they will take for their entire lives, if the drugs don’t kill them first. And you’re going to pay for it, whether you want to or not.
Already, children as young as 3, who wind up in the foster care system, are receiving psychiatric drugs for such disorders as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or depression, with over 60% of foster children in Texas, nearly two-thirds in Massachusetts, and 55% of foster children in Florida on as many as 16 different psychiatric drugs.
Where did the drive to medicate every child in the United States begin?
It began in Texas, with the Texas Medication Algorithm Project, an effort to create “one size fits all” treatment for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons says that the “TMAP algorithm guidelines for psychotropic drugs are not backed by scientific evidence, but rather on self-interested opinion. Indeed the scientific evidence contradicts all claims made about the superiority of the drugs recommended by TMAP as first line treatment — these drugs have not been shown to be either more effective or safer than non-drug interventions or existing, cheaper, old drugs. TMAP guidelines were formulated by a consensus panel whose opinions were solicited by pharmaceutical companies that sponsored TMAP. The TMAP formularies recommend the drugs manufactured by those companies that are all on patent, very expensive, and have no better safety or effectiveness profiles than older, cheaper drugs that themselves are not very safe or effective.”
Yet under programs being pushed by a little-known federal government agency, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the discredited TMAP algorithms, originally designed for adults, would be used on children.
In SAMHSA’s Action Agenda, based on current Bush administration policy, the government wants to “fundamentally alter the form and function of the mental health service delivery system in this country” by implementing the recommendations of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.
One of these programs, which is already in operation, is Foundations for Learning, which was added into the No Child Left Behind Act at the last minute by the conference committee. According to Dr. Karen R. Effrem, of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, it “provides federal funds in the form of grants to states and other agencies to provide preschool screening, parent education, social services, home visits, transportation and curriculum to support ’social and emotional development’” for children from birth to age 7. A child can receive these services if the child has been removed from child care, Head Start or similar programs for behavioral problems, or is at risk of being removed from such programs, or if one of the child’s parents has depression or another mental illness.
“The criteria for diagnosing mental disorders are very vague in general, but are extremely vague and inaccurate for children,” Effrem wrote. “These grants will further subsidize the labeling and drugging of an alarmingly large population of young children with potent medications that have not been studied in that age group.”
Oh, and there’s one other little point. “The federal government has no constitutional authority to be involved in mental health and early childhood issues and the record of success of these types of programs is abysmal.”
The NFC recommendations include a wide variety of mental health programs targeted at children as young as age 3, and early intervention for some children from birth.
Michael Ostrolenk, a licensed psychotherapist and public policy consultant who founded the Medical Privacy Coalition, wrote, “Their influence [of the mental health establishment over government] causes our children to be labeled in infancy, and it creates a never-ending market for psychiatric drugs. The long term effects of these drugs on the brains of our children are unknown. They also create a market for other drugs used to treat the chronic side effects like obesity and diabetes, and they will be needed throughout the lives of those affected, enhancing drug company profits while bankrupting taxpayer funded programs. As these programs multiply, the use of politically motivated labeling and drugging for children who do not comply with the indoctrination of the federal curriculum will increase. Brave New World will appear less and less like fiction unless these programs are stopped.”
It appears that dumbing down the schools wasn’t enough to get everyone in America to be conforming, subservient little sheep. Now they want to drug all of our children into submission. Baa.
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Jason
Mar 25, 2006
Something like this is actually quite scary to thing about.
Granted, a lot of it comes from the fact that I’m a humongous cynic when it comes to people as is (generations past and generations present).
It also comes from a smidget of egotism, I fully admit it when I’m not in an egotistical mood :P.
I hold a very low regard for people who convey / carry themselves poorly, and I’m very admamant to blame the parents.
I weep for the next generation… I really do.
Jason
Mar 25, 2006
Quick baaaaah.
something to thing about -> something to THINK about.
So I can’t spell, bah.
tj
Mar 25, 2006
oh … my … god. i can’t believe this. they can’t seriously be using these kids in the system as guinea pigs. fricking ridiculous!
Mar 28, 2006
Searchlight Crusade
Mar 29, 2006
Watcher of Weasels
graeme
Mar 30, 2006
About 1 year ago I got my girlfriend off anti-depressants and she recovered spontaneously from all mental afflictions.
She is now happy and has a future. Her psychiatrist claimed she was now cured – quite funny since they claim not to be able to cure anything.
I realise that some people do have disturbing mental disorders, but how many people are caught in the net of the evil psychiatric/pharmaceutical public relations machine that seems to be at all times attempting to infiltrate all levels of education, the judiciary and government.
This story by you is absolutely sickening and I believe that it deserves the widest publication and public condemnation for the actions of the federal government.
Personally I have studies 3 years of Medicine – you would not believe how uncertain professors are of the functions of the brain. I initially thought medicine was a science. It’s all guesswork.
The only thing that they should do it follow the traditional mandate of medicine upheld by only the most ethical.
Primum Non Nocere => First Do No Harm
This world will not be right until psychiatry and drug companies are exposed for what they currently are. High Paid Shamsters hiding behind the once hallowed walls of Science and creaming the world of cash at the expense of the weak and those without a voice.
And now infants who can’t speak – I suppose this is in true
form, come to think of it. Of course – they can’t speak, so they can’t complain when their DNA is unalterably sickened
and their metabolism and sexual growth retarded permanently, ensuring future mental illness.
Well as you can see I could go on.
Mar 31, 2006
Watcher of Weasels
Apr 21, 2006
Dispatches from the Drug War - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity
Daniel Haszard
Jun 02, 2006
Well said,i applaud your blog,mental health consumers are the least capable of self advocacy,my doctors made me take zyprexa for 4 years which was ineffective for my symptoms.I now have a victims support page against Eli Lilly for it’s Zyprexa product causing my diabetes.–Daniel Haszard www.zyprexa-victims.com
Riley
Jul 02, 2006
Where else but Texas, the emerging cultural and political sinkhole of America…
Andy Dabydeen
Jul 02, 2006
The trend started years ago … and it seems that most parents are
just way too happy to go along with it all. After all, they want the
best for the children — and politicians fat on drug companies
handouts do know what’s best for the children.
Jul 02, 2006
logicisdead » drugged from birth
Rick
Jul 03, 2006
The use of psychotropic is over done here in the United States and I agree that schools are the front line and all they want to do is use the buildings as day storage facility. Drop your kids off here (make sure that your kids are doped up before you bring them in).
I kind of liken this to every Psychiatrist to using shock treat or before that lobotomy. Which both proved to not to be beneficial to the out
come of the prognosis of the patient other then to stupid the patient.
Debra Ross
Jul 03, 2006
Yes, it DID begin in Texas, but a LOT earlier than most people know. In the early 70’s-in so-called “schools” filled with juvenile wards of the court from other states. Actually, if you think about it, it was probably going on before that.
Elena
Jul 04, 2006
You have to think who is benefiting from this, and who is lobbying
for this. If you dig deep enough, there is someone (by which I mean
person, organization, or corporation) who has a vested economic
interest in the continued medicalization of a large number of
children for life.
Lucy
Jul 05, 2006
Having represented parents of these kids in court, and knowing that the Social Workers, for the most part, were all newbie grads of s.w., I was horrified then even more after hearing the judges insist that this or that little kid, freshly ripped from his/her home was being drugged for ‘behavior difficulties’,I,m sorry that the whole nation is being hurt by this.
Dana
Jul 07, 2006
Yes, it is terribly surprising that a child who has undergone who knows what abuse culminating in the removal from the only family he has ever known and dropped off with strangers whose name he does not know might act out in an inappropriate manner. Why can’t he pay attention in school? Why is he disruptive? He must have ADHD because we are completely, 100% controlled by bio-chemical processes. We don’t need to deal with “issues” or any of that. Just a little pill to correct those chemical imbalances in the brain and we will all be happy.
Sometimes the medication is necessary, especially short term in order to give a person enough scope to confront reality. And it wouldn’t be surprising if children in the foster care system do actually need some of this more often than children in the “normal” population because they do tend to have more mental illness running in their families. But disruption = medication is too ingrained in our thinking and is only going to do harm in the long run. We only mask issues and apply bandaids. We don’t seem to want to solve any of them anymore.
Ramon
Jul 08, 2006
I do believe you all have fallen off the deep end.
You seriously believe this is taking place?
Michael Hampton
Jul 08, 2006
You see all those links? Those go to the documentation — from the government agencies involved and from various news organizations — which show that it most certainly is what’s taking place.
TerryAnn
Jul 19, 2006
I have seen kids take the “lil blue pill” so that they will be manageable in classrooms, I know that in some cases, drugs are a godsend for parents and children, but in many cases, I honestly believe that children are being drugged into submission.
If you doubt that it’s true, I suggest calling your local school and asking to talk to the Principal about it, your taxes pay for schools, so they should be able to share some information, if not specifics. Try a Elementary School or Primary school, I think you’ll be surprised.
Linda
Jul 21, 2006
This is so sad but true the state drugs these kids in foster care and they do this to get more money!! Every child that is labled and drugged means more money for the state!! This is a goverment mill that needs to be stopped. Children are gived the doses that are given to an adult. Over medication is common in foster care. there have been laws passed now where the parents can’t be forced to medicate their kids. Children Protection Services still use this threat to remove kids from homes. We are becoming a nation of legale drug addicts by the goverment pushing this on our families!! Wake up people and smell the bacon! We are loseing our freedom daily and the goverment loves it!
Ken
Jul 21, 2006
Something can be done about it!
Read and sign this petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html
Pass it on to everyone you know.
JILL
Jul 21, 2006
My son was RIPPED from me by social services in order for them to get my Widows, and his survivors benefits checks. They immediately put him on anti-depressants and ADD drugs, saying he was depressed and ADHD. Well hell yea he was depressed…he was just kidnapped (basically) from his family, with no way to return. Funny, when we won our case in court, and brought him home, he wasn’t so depressed anymore. Today he has muscles lesions and a heart murmur from the drugs. All I can say is the Government is building a BIG ARMY against themselves by torturing these children…and now they are starting at birth age. Good luck America, you are going to need it.
Kevin Owen
Jul 22, 2006
The online videos below maybe of interest to your group as some of the
advice you receive in your work may come from psychiatrists.
Psychiatrists admit No Science No Cures Video [4mins] http://cchr.org/uploads/video/no_science.wmv
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual:(DSM): A Psychiatric Hoax Video http://cchr.org/uploads/video/broadbandDSM.wmv
Let me know if you have any questions.
vincent
Jul 28, 2006
I’m a french doctor and it’s easy too treat children with naturals
products.
We can if we want, it’s simple like that but it needs time too succeed.
Kevin Owen
Jul 28, 2006
Vincent are you treating them with drugs or natural products.
Its no use saying we can if we want to. Are you diagnosing them with
invented mental illnesses and what are you going to do about that kind of fruadulent behaviour?
See our latest video as shown on TV
Psychs False Diagnoses Online Video
http://www.freedommag.tv/shows/FM-PsychsFalseDiagnoses11.wmv
Claire Longpre
Jul 30, 2006
I was labeled bipolar in 1996. It ruined my health. I got hypothyroidismsmism and diabetes from too many meds. I was held committed at a psychiatric hospital for 5 months refusing meds. I could not see my kids except twice in si
My kids don’t want to visit with me anymore unless I take my pills aga
in. How can I get justice now? My ex-husband trhrew me out the door after 27 years raising my four sons. Just because psychiatric labelled I lost all my rights. I am sad about the treatment I got. I am now without psyks meds for the past two years and never felt any better. Thanks for reading me,
vincent
Jul 30, 2006
I don’t use antidepressive pills, with natural product it’s possible too treat. All the doctors can learn and do that; and the doctors I know who make like this are happy.
I don’t want to diagnose any mental disorder because the people can chager in better, and after,if I had writen some diagnostic in their folder, it’s not fair for them.
sorry for my english
Kevin Owen
Jul 31, 2006
Well done vicent. At least there are some honest ones out there.
English okay. You should try our
Instant CalMag-C
http://www.rehabilitatenz.co.nz/pages/instant-calmag1.html
From 1 to 3 glasses of Instant Cal-Mag-C a day, with or
after meals, replaces any tranquilizer. It does not produce
the drugged effects of tranquilizers (which are quite deadly).
Michael Hampton
Jul 31, 2006
Let’s watch it with the advertising, eh? You want an ad, you can buy one. :)
Pru Joy
Aug 03, 2006
Hey – lighten up Michael – CalMag can be a tricky drink to make from the raw products thus why a premix like CalMag C is far more achievable. I know because I have benefitted from using CalMag (both raw products & premix) when coming off masses of psych drugs which had been prescribed to me for the mis-diagnosis of mental illness when all that was “wrong” with me was simple & natural hormone change symptoms.
Pru Joy
Aug 03, 2006
I have a friend/work associate whose son was put on the anti-convulsive drug Tegretol when only 9 months old. He was only taken off this drug he was 12 years old. He then proceeded to exhibit symptoms that were diagnosed as mental illness & prescribed a long list of different psychiatric drugs. He is now 24 years old & a complete “case” in that he is totally dependent on his now aging parents & bounces from “street” drugs to “legal” drugs. The government now controls his affairs & medication. I see this as a scary example of just what happens when children/babies are drugged for so long.
Pru Joy
Aug 03, 2006
Dear Claire (July 30 post) – please see my site to share reality on your experience with my own – my site is a warning to women not to accept psychiatric treatment for hormone related symptoms.
Pru Joy
Aug 03, 2006
Oops – forgot to put in my site link – you can get there by clicking my name but here it is anyway -
http://www.freewebs.com/prujoy108/
Cariel Dobbs
Aug 27, 2006
My grandson was removed from his father’s care and placed with his moth
er, who was using drugs. When the father turned her in for physical abu
use, which turned into sexual abuse also. During this time he was placed in a behavioral hospital, which placed him on Prozac and Sequel at 5 years of age. The DHS office did not return the boy back to his father or my husband and I. This case has been going on for 5 years, where is the justice in our court system, we have not seen it yet. A Concerned Grandmother
Linda
Aug 27, 2006
I am sorry that the court system is doing this to your family.
There is no justice on our courts anymore! A lot of parents are in the same boat as you are. With the cps and doctors working hand in hand more kids wil be torn from their families. This has to stop. people don’t know the side effects of these drugs and the long term effects. I think the more the public is informed people will listen and start asking questions.
Drugging of children must stop!!! Parents need to contact their state reps and Senators and tell them no more!!! Remember that they want your vote and if they are getting a lot of bad PR maybe they will do their jobs and stop this madness going on in this country.
The Robert
Aug 30, 2006
‘they’ said to give my brother Ritalin when he was a kid
& there was nothing with him
now, years later, he has seizures
I BLAME MY GOVERNMENT
for that and else
but someday
I shall make it pay!
;-D
Sep 02, 2006
Siberia USA · Drugged from Birth
x
Sep 02, 2006
To hell with psychiatry!!!!!
Judy Adams
Sep 07, 2006
I was active in the public school system for 25 years. Over 50% of the kids were on Ritalin. One teacher asked me why I refused to allow psychiatric testing on my son in the classroom, as he might be “harmed” by being singled out. The school psychologist admitted to me he was there for the money and that each child labeled brought income to the school. At one point I was forced via a court order to bring my sons to a psychologist. It ended suddenly when I caught him scamming my insurance company. I still have proof and filing a report on him. He moved away and is still in practice.
Katinka
Sep 25, 2006
Look into Citizen’s Committee for Human Rights (CCHR). One
of the most effective organizations that have been an advocacy group for years and years and possess an arsenal of tactics to avoid the drugging of
the populous.
It’s not just the drug industry (FDA) that are raking in
the money at the expense of human dignity and intelligence, but the
majority of psychiatrists who wish to make everyone as small as they
are. Every case of “going postal,” school slayings and child
termination are a result of these drugs.
Robert
Sep 28, 2006
This link is an easy way to contact lawmakers regarding these issues
or any other issues for that matter.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
Anonymous
Oct 21, 2006
Remember life without Ritalin. We survived. Does anyone know what the
long-term side effects of this medication is? It is scary to think
what may happen to our children 20-30 yrs from now if they live that
long.
pat stevens
Oct 25, 2006
my grand daughter has been on these meds for a year and a half now is is wearing diapers at the age of 8. she was once a happy little girl who had so much to offer but her mother thought she could be a handfull at times so on the meds she went. I’m so afraid her intire life has been destroyed. I don’t know where to start with help for her and at the same time keep my boundry as a grandparent. I intend to get involved with cchr and spread the word as far as possible in my community. this is so scary and so out of control, we have to unite and protct these children. but where and how do I start? this is so very painfull
zara
Dec 12, 2006
hi, good site. see the new zealand blog above, which is against forced psych drugging
Dec 21, 2006
Two years of Homeland Stupidity - Homeland Stupidity
Sue
Dec 28, 2006
Dr. Abram Hoffer, an orthomolecular physician in Canada, has had great success treating “schizophrenia”, including complete cures with almost all patients. (Not to mention amazing success in healing cancers). But of course the mainstream psych profession, and Big Pharma, don’t want people to hear about that – no more lifelong income? no way!
He worked with the famous Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling.
Read about his story here – see the links both to schizophrenia page and cancer page.
http://orthomolecular.org/history/hoffer/index.shtml
But of course, the govt makes it easily acceptable to parents to drug their children. Haven’t they been doing that for decades, administering useless vaccines from 5 weeks old (since when does a newborn need to be protected against Hepatitis B – risk group is sexually active / druggies using needles??)
http://www.thinktwice.com
We as a society have lost the ability to think (dumbed down). People need to be able to peruse through the propaganda and find the real facts / evidence before allowing ANYONE to inflict such unnecessary and potentially fatal harm on our children!
Linda
Dec 30, 2006
We as parent lways thought that we were doing the best for our children when we had them given baby shots. Now as our kids are getting older and there are more kids on drugs for add and adhd the schools are trying to tell our kids they need to be tested for this disorder. What I would like to know is just what kind of test is there? Just because child does not sit still and they are labled by the school and the teachers.
ADHD and ADD is a FRAUD!!!!! It is a way for the companies to get money out of the insurance companies and the state.
Ritalin is poison and when given to kids over the years is like giving them pure coke. The side effects???? It will be adults that can’t function due to a life on drugs.
Lois Hafler
Feb 13, 2007
Most of the senators in the united states own huge amounts of stock in the drug company’s. This is why Bush is pushing teen screen and has given drug companies immunity from prosecution when your children die from the drugs. Probably the senators you voted for……please do not vote for a party, know who you vote for.
jean
Feb 14, 2007
All they want is the old saying a kid can be seen but not heard. So by doing this you have little robots walking around. God will bring his wrath down I Pray soon ……Evil Evil people
debbles
Feb 18, 2007
yeah, they put me on lithium and some anti depressant after my divorce and needlesstosay, major stress and life turmoil… I was literally drooling–I’m not kidding, then, my friend moved in to help me. Know what the miraculous cure was? TLC. She cooked for me, curtailed my booze consumption, got me up to do yoga and meditate and took me for long country walks along the river. I was fine and balanced in a month or so… poor kids…. big brother really has it coming…
debbles
Feb 18, 2007
I failed to add that I had taken myself off the drugs when my friend moved in to help me. It was the TLC she gave me that saved me. Those drugs just made me worse than I was before. Now, I know that drugs aren’t all evil, it’s just those monsters in the govt and their pawns that are.. I don’t know if evil is the word, I don’t have a word for it. It’s so unthinkable.
Feb 21, 2007
honest human