Okay, only if they start the evaluations with the Oval Office and work their way "down"...
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Bush to Screen Population For Mental Illness
Bush to Screen Population For Mental Illness
President Bush plans to unveil next month a sweeping mental health initiative that recommends screening for every citizen and promotes the use of expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs favored by supporters of the administration.
This scares me. I don't see mental illness and treatment of mental illness as a government issue. I don't want people screening my children for mental illness - especially when they only profit if they diagnose my child with something. A diagnosis that can follow my child throughout life.
I fully support people with mental illness having access to treatment. Psychiatric hospitals are shutting down, and people with severe mental illness are ending up in jails or on the street. Something needs to be done about this problem. But, this is not the solution. An administration that's sleeping with the pharmaceutical companies cannot be trusted to deal with the current crisis. They certainly can't be trusted around our children!
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President Bush plans to unveil next month a sweeping mental health initiative that recommends screening for every citizen and promotes the use of expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs favored by supporters of the administration.
This scares me. I don't see mental illness and treatment of mental illness as a government issue. I don't want people screening my children for mental illness - especially when they only profit if they diagnose my child with something. A diagnosis that can follow my child throughout life.
I fully support people with mental illness having access to treatment. Psychiatric hospitals are shutting down, and people with severe mental illness are ending up in jails or on the street. Something needs to be done about this problem. But, this is not the solution. An administration that's sleeping with the pharmaceutical companies cannot be trusted to deal with the current crisis. They certainly can't be trusted around our children!
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What really **IRKS** me is how so many people now expect children to be miniature adults. Whatever happened to playing with your kids instead of having them dosed with some kind of ADD med and zonked out on the couch?!
Please, no offense to those whose children really DO need the meds, I'm just ticked at those weeners like my BIL whose idea of a "good kid" is one so drugged they don't move off the couch from the time they wake up until bedtime. :-/
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Originally Posted by TiredX2 You'll notice there is no talk of re-opening mental clinics. How about good training about normal childhood behavior instead? It would accomplish the same goal w/a lot less drugs! |
What really **IRKS** me is how so many people now expect children to be miniature adults. Whatever happened to playing with your kids instead of having them dosed with some kind of ADD med and zonked out on the couch?!
Please, no offense to those whose children really DO need the meds, I'm just ticked at those weeners like my BIL whose idea of a "good kid" is one so drugged they don't move off the couch from the time they wake up until bedtime. :-/
Think of all the genius in the past that would have been extinguished with the use of meds.
Perhaps this is actually a ploy to increase support for vouchers. They could do mandatory mental screening in public schools which would send people to private schools and increase voucher support.
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I wouldn't put anything past "them" at this point
Perhaps this is actually a ploy to increase support for vouchers. They could do mandatory mental screening in public schools which would send people to private schools and increase voucher support.
wtf is this? Is Ashcroft taking over in some sort of Borg like fashion?
Has anyone found any more links? ways to protest and publicize such nonsense?(other than the blanket statement to vote for someone else
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Has anyone found any more links? ways to protest and publicize such nonsense?(other than the blanket statement to vote for someone else
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