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What Is New? - Accomplishment-Alaska Supreme Court Strikes Down Forced Psychiatric Drugging & Beware-'TeenScreen' in Washington State
Psychiatric Rights - Alaska Supreme Court Strikes Down Forced Psychiatric Drugging Procedures: In a resounding affirmation of personal liberty and freedom, the Alaska Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Myers v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute today. The court found Alaska's forced psychiatric drugging regime to be unconstitutional when the state forces someone to take psychiatric medications without proving it to be in their best interests or when there are less restrictive alternatives. Faith Myers, the appellant in the case, reacted to the decision saying, "It makes all of my suffering worthwhile." The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights, a non-profit, tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization, has a mission to bring fairness and reason into the administration of legal aspects of the mental health system, particularly unwarranted court ordered psychiatric drugging. The public mental health system is creating a huge class of chronic mental patients through forcing them to take ineffective, yet extremely harmful drugs.
For more information, go to PsychRights' web site: http://psychrights.org/index.htm
TeenScreen
TeenScreen and Mental Health Screening - You need to be informed. Do you know how TeenScreen is being marketed? Did you know there is a national push on right now to screen every man, woman and child for mental illness? This site provides links to several of the more active web sites that will keep you up to date on this important issue.
Teenscreen in Washington State!- In 2003 the President’s New Freedom Commission (NFC) on Mental Health presented its final report to the President – a report that called for a “fundamental transformation” of America’s mental health system. Among the many NFC recommendations was the “routine and comprehensive” screening of Americans including children in public schools. Washington State (along with several other states) has now applied for a federal grant to implement the NFC’s recommendations, including school screening.
For more information, go to: Mental Health Screening in Washington http://www.teenscreenwa.50megs.com/
TeenScreen - Normal Kids Labeled Mentally Ill
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0608/S00010.htm
Despite years of public outcry, based on recommendations by President Bush's New Freedom Commission to screen all school children for mental illness, TeenScreen is now being administered in the nation's public school system and children are being regularly diagnosed with one, or more, disorders chosen from the close to 400 listed in the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV" (DSM), also known as the psychiatric "Billing Bible."
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In fact, in 2004, Paxil maker, Glaxo, was sued by New York State Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, for committing fraud by hiding studies that "not only failed to show any benefit for the drug in children but demonstrated that children taking Paxil were more likely to become suicidal than those taking a placebo." In September 2005, British public health officials instructed doctors to never prescribe SSRIs to children without providing psychotherapy as well. Physicians were also told to never prescribe the drugs without trying other alternative drugs first, and to not prescribe Effexor or Paxil to children under any condition.
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