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This Article was written by cchr the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International >April 2005
>MORE BLOOD ON THE HANDS OF PSYCHIATRY
>The deadliest school shooting since Columbine took place on March 21st,
>2005. 16-year-old Native American Jeff Weise is the latest school-age shooter who
>was or had been taking a mind-altering antidepressant. In Red Lake,
>Minnesota, Weise killed nine people, including his grandfather, his grandfather's
>spouse, fellow schoolmates and finally himself. Yet another tragedy to add to
>the growing list of people maimed or killed by children receiving "psychiatric
>treatment."
> * In 2001, a California high school student, taking two
>antidepressants, wounded three students and a teacher. In Williamsport, PA, a 14-year-old
>student, who was also on antidepressants, shot and wounded a fellow classmate.
>
>Also in 2001, a 16-year-old armed with a rifle, on an antidepressant, took
>23 classmates and a teacher hostage at his Washington State high school.
>In 2000, a 13-year-old was "on numerous prescription medications and
>undergoing psychological counseling" when he opened fire on his classmates, wounding
>five.
>In 1999, two teenagers, one taking an antidepressant, killed 13 people at
>Columbine High School. A student in Conyers, Georgia, brought a rifle to his
>high school and shot six students. He was taking an antidepressant.
>In 1998, a 15-year-old in Oregon, who was reported to be on an
>antidepressant, killed his parents and two classmates, wounding an additional 22 others.
>
>
>There is a common denominator here, and, as you probably know, the danger is
>far from over. Currently, a new federal initiative is in the process of
>rolling out a mental health screening plan for "consumers of all ages," beginning
>with America's 52 million school children and the 6 million teachers that
>teach them. This is the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFC).
>Despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's order that a "black box"
>warning label be placed on all antidepressants stating that antidepressants
>increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children and adolescents,
>the NFC not only recommends these same suicide-inducing drugs be prescribed
>to children, but recommends an approach that will greatly increase the number
>of children prescribed these drugs.
>
>Did you know that based on the NFC recommendations, $44 million was
>originally requested from the federal government in "State Incentive Transformation
>Grants" for up to 14 states to transform their mental health systems as set
>forth by the NFC. In November 2004, in an attempt to quell the public outcry,
>the American Psychiatric Association issued a disingenuous, false and
>misleading statement to members of Congress regarding the NFC's recommendations.
>Unfortunately, Congress allocated $20 million toward the State Incentive
>Transformation Grants. Some state mental health agencies have already begun plans for
> their "transformation," seeking to increase mental health screening on a
>broad scale by whatever means, expecting the federal dollars to flow toward
>them.
>These psychiatric programs deceive parents into thinking that their child's
>newly diagnosed mental "disorder" is real disease and that psychiatric
>"medications" will treat the so-called disease. There is nothing further from the
>truth. There are no objective physical tests that can detect or verify any
>DSM-listed mental disorder as an illness, disease or abnormality.
>It is with this subjective psychiatric "diagnosis" that the trouble begins.
>And mandatory mental health screening means more subjective diagnoses—a lot
>more. This initiative gives psychiatry the opportunity to get millions of
>parents and children into mental health "treatment." If the NFC recommendations
>are implemented, millions more children will be fraudulently labeled and
>drugged, which will undoubtedly contribute to increased suicides and acts of
>violence.
>Take Daniel Rosecrans. In the winter of 1995, Daniel (who was 3 years old at
>the time) and his family became ill with symptoms that doctors attributed to
>the cold or flu. For nearly three months the family became sicker and
>sicker, at which point Daniel could hardly climb the stairs to their house. It
>finally stopped when they evacuated their house due to a carbon monoxide leak.
>The family had been receiving carbon monoxide poisoning.
>However, the real ordeal started in 1997, when Daniel started school. The
>school psychologist told Daniel's mother that he had Attention Deficit
>Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and needed to be put on a stimulant. She was also told
>that, "refusing to co-operate with the school system is not benefiting you or
>your son. We may have to move him to a special education class if you're not
>willing to put his education first, and in some states that's considered
>child abuse. We are required to notify Child Protective Services if a parent is
>not cooperating."
>Knowing her son's trouble stemmed from the carbon monoxide poisoning and not
>"ADHD," she refused. However, per the school's threat, her son was taken
>away by Child Protective Services. She fought back and finally prevailed, but it
>was a five-year battle to get her son back and off debilitating psychiatric
>drugs.
>"[On] September 29, 2002, I was called by Child Protective Services, who…
>agreed to give me my son back, stating they agreed with me that I was right all
>along on my son's actual diagnosis. On that day, I sat on the floor, unable
>to answer, phone still in my hand, years of fighting, years of severe anger
>outbursts from a child overmedicated and not knowing why his little body was
>hurting so bad¦years of battling for my rights as the child's parent, nights
>and nights of holding a crying child because he didn't know what was happening¦
>years of research to finally prove my point all came flooding out, silent
>tears flowing down my cheeks as I'd finally, I'd FINALLY won!"
>Daniel's mother knows that his ordeal would never have happened if Daniel
>hadn't been labeled ADHD in the first place. "I'll fight whatever battle I need
>to in order to stop this madness from happening to my children and to other
>parents. I hope that I can help even one woman protect her family from
>outside interference."
...........................................................................
now even after the "black box" warning has been put on most of the prescribed drugs for ADHD ADD Depression etc, it's still something like 6,000 kids per day are being put on these medications, I just thought this acticle was interesting and there was also one recently in the San Francisco Cronicle that was similiar.
>MORE BLOOD ON THE HANDS OF PSYCHIATRY
>The deadliest school shooting since Columbine took place on March 21st,
>2005. 16-year-old Native American Jeff Weise is the latest school-age shooter who
>was or had been taking a mind-altering antidepressant. In Red Lake,
>Minnesota, Weise killed nine people, including his grandfather, his grandfather's
>spouse, fellow schoolmates and finally himself. Yet another tragedy to add to
>the growing list of people maimed or killed by children receiving "psychiatric
>treatment."
> * In 2001, a California high school student, taking two
>antidepressants, wounded three students and a teacher. In Williamsport, PA, a 14-year-old
>student, who was also on antidepressants, shot and wounded a fellow classmate.
>
>Also in 2001, a 16-year-old armed with a rifle, on an antidepressant, took
>23 classmates and a teacher hostage at his Washington State high school.
>In 2000, a 13-year-old was "on numerous prescription medications and
>undergoing psychological counseling" when he opened fire on his classmates, wounding
>five.
>In 1999, two teenagers, one taking an antidepressant, killed 13 people at
>Columbine High School. A student in Conyers, Georgia, brought a rifle to his
>high school and shot six students. He was taking an antidepressant.
>In 1998, a 15-year-old in Oregon, who was reported to be on an
>antidepressant, killed his parents and two classmates, wounding an additional 22 others.
>
>
>There is a common denominator here, and, as you probably know, the danger is
>far from over. Currently, a new federal initiative is in the process of
>rolling out a mental health screening plan for "consumers of all ages," beginning
>with America's 52 million school children and the 6 million teachers that
>teach them. This is the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFC).
>Despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's order that a "black box"
>warning label be placed on all antidepressants stating that antidepressants
>increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children and adolescents,
>the NFC not only recommends these same suicide-inducing drugs be prescribed
>to children, but recommends an approach that will greatly increase the number
>of children prescribed these drugs.
>
>Did you know that based on the NFC recommendations, $44 million was
>originally requested from the federal government in "State Incentive Transformation
>Grants" for up to 14 states to transform their mental health systems as set
>forth by the NFC. In November 2004, in an attempt to quell the public outcry,
>the American Psychiatric Association issued a disingenuous, false and
>misleading statement to members of Congress regarding the NFC's recommendations.
>Unfortunately, Congress allocated $20 million toward the State Incentive
>Transformation Grants. Some state mental health agencies have already begun plans for
> their "transformation," seeking to increase mental health screening on a
>broad scale by whatever means, expecting the federal dollars to flow toward
>them.
>These psychiatric programs deceive parents into thinking that their child's
>newly diagnosed mental "disorder" is real disease and that psychiatric
>"medications" will treat the so-called disease. There is nothing further from the
>truth. There are no objective physical tests that can detect or verify any
>DSM-listed mental disorder as an illness, disease or abnormality.
>It is with this subjective psychiatric "diagnosis" that the trouble begins.
>And mandatory mental health screening means more subjective diagnoses—a lot
>more. This initiative gives psychiatry the opportunity to get millions of
>parents and children into mental health "treatment." If the NFC recommendations
>are implemented, millions more children will be fraudulently labeled and
>drugged, which will undoubtedly contribute to increased suicides and acts of
>violence.
>Take Daniel Rosecrans. In the winter of 1995, Daniel (who was 3 years old at
>the time) and his family became ill with symptoms that doctors attributed to
>the cold or flu. For nearly three months the family became sicker and
>sicker, at which point Daniel could hardly climb the stairs to their house. It
>finally stopped when they evacuated their house due to a carbon monoxide leak.
>The family had been receiving carbon monoxide poisoning.
>However, the real ordeal started in 1997, when Daniel started school. The
>school psychologist told Daniel's mother that he had Attention Deficit
>Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and needed to be put on a stimulant. She was also told
>that, "refusing to co-operate with the school system is not benefiting you or
>your son. We may have to move him to a special education class if you're not
>willing to put his education first, and in some states that's considered
>child abuse. We are required to notify Child Protective Services if a parent is
>not cooperating."
>Knowing her son's trouble stemmed from the carbon monoxide poisoning and not
>"ADHD," she refused. However, per the school's threat, her son was taken
>away by Child Protective Services. She fought back and finally prevailed, but it
>was a five-year battle to get her son back and off debilitating psychiatric
>drugs.
>"[On] September 29, 2002, I was called by Child Protective Services, who…
>agreed to give me my son back, stating they agreed with me that I was right all
>along on my son's actual diagnosis. On that day, I sat on the floor, unable
>to answer, phone still in my hand, years of fighting, years of severe anger
>outbursts from a child overmedicated and not knowing why his little body was
>hurting so bad¦years of battling for my rights as the child's parent, nights
>and nights of holding a crying child because he didn't know what was happening¦
>years of research to finally prove my point all came flooding out, silent
>tears flowing down my cheeks as I'd finally, I'd FINALLY won!"
>Daniel's mother knows that his ordeal would never have happened if Daniel
>hadn't been labeled ADHD in the first place. "I'll fight whatever battle I need
>to in order to stop this madness from happening to my children and to other
>parents. I hope that I can help even one woman protect her family from
>outside interference."
...........................................................................
now even after the "black box" warning has been put on most of the prescribed drugs for ADHD ADD Depression etc, it's still something like 6,000 kids per day are being put on these medications, I just thought this acticle was interesting and there was also one recently in the San Francisco Cronicle that was similiar.