KILL YOURSELF
AUGUST 11, 2004. It�s war. War against the people. War against children. War against parents. War against families.
CHEMICAL WARFARE.
I�ve been documenting it and screaming about it since this site started.
It�s eating into America. Day by day.
It�s mind control. It�s mind scrambling. It�s chemical destruction of minds.
And most of the na�ve American populace is eating it up, wanting it, asking for it, begging for it.
The scum who wage this war are the lowest of the low. The ciphers who assist in the war, who follow the marching orders, are like the �good Germans� who stood by as the little Hitlers took over and started the murders. The faceless bureaucrats who do their part in forwarding the war have their eyes on the federal money that will come to their agencies.
The psychiatrists who are the agents in the war should be wearing black uniforms and boots. They have long ago given up rational thought and have opted for pure control. Let them control each other on a desert island and hack each other to pieces.
And let us not forget the dupes, the actors and other celebs, the pols who front for this operation under the rubric of �share and care� and �good science.�
Let me tell you something. This is the same science that created the eugenics monsters. This is the same science that created the concentration camps. This is the same science that created �mental illness� as a rationale for putting people behind medical bars who disagreed with the power of the State. This is sheer madness perpetrated by those claiming to be able define sanity and insanity.
This is truly the Century of the Brain. As in, dissect the brain, map it, drug it. This is Clockwork Orange in progress.
Don�t write me and ask what you can do. You can find a good group of decent people who are already organized and you can join them and become part of the struggle. From the halls of Ritalin to the shores of Prozac.
If you�re a shrink who routinely dispenses psychotropic drugs, kill yourself. Really. Kill yourself. Do us all a favor. Overdose on a few of your own drugs and take yourself out. Right now. Don�t delay. Wipe yourself out. Then, look around as you float in the ether and take stock of what you�ve been doing. Maybe you can right your ship then. But meanwhile, kill yourself. Don�t bother to leave a note. Just do it. We don�t need explanations. We know all about it. We know the score. You�re a blight on the human scene. You�re a bug. You�re a scorpion with a few degrees on the wall. Kill yourself.
Here is a release from AHRP:
ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) Promoting openness and full
disclosure http://www.ahrp.org
FYI
The Boston Globe reports that 2/3 of children in state care in Massachusetts
are being "treated" for mental illness with psychotropic drugs. Marie
Parente, a legislator, and parents call for disclosure of "how many children
in state care are being given psychotropic drugs, and for government
agencies to take a critical look at the procedures for allowing these
medicines to be prescribed." Parente suggested that "the state may be
motivated to label children as mentally ill because of the reimbursement
checks they receive from the federal government, which compensates
Massachusetts for half of all Medicaid expenditures." (below)
If psychiatry is sometimes regarded as "a mirror of society," then America
is mindlessly heading in the wrong direction, driven by an unproven
biochemical theory for mental illness. Inasmuch as psychiatry lacks
scientific diagnostic tools, and no proven cures or safe medicines, the
skyrocketing prescribing of harmful psychotropic drugs to America's children
can only be classified as child abuse. [1, 2]
Spiraling state Medicaid expenditures for psychotropic drugs are best
explained by the drug industry's inordinate influence on psychiatric
practice--not these drugs' effectiveness.[3]
Dr. Irwin Savodnik, a psychiatrist and philosopher who teaches at UCLA, has
studied the shifting winds in psychiatry in the former Soviet Union. He
found, that once psychiatrists were freed from Soviet dictatorship in 1992,
they shed the straightjacket of "biological determinism." Today, those
psychiatrists are avidly reading Freud in an effort to regain a humanistic
perspective of human nature that biological psychiatry had eradicated.
"The great irony," Dr. Savodnik observes, "is that American psychiatry is
moving in exactly the opposite direction.In the past 30 years, the
overriding ideology of American psychiatry has shifted to a biological
model. Psychopharmacology has become its therapeutic backbone."
Dr. Savodnik points out, that the problem is that "this model doesn't
tolerate free agency. It views psychiatric problems -- moral problems,
really -- as medical ones, just as Soviet psychiatry did."
"The Soviet example places in bold relief the deficiencies and fallacies of
a truncated view of human life...as the Soviet system came undone and its
psychiatrists freed themselves from the confines of a strangulating
ideology, American psychiatrists have embraced uncritically the same narrow
vision. But as the Soviet example demonstrates with distressing clarity, a
conception of people as little more than biochemical bundles fails to
address those aspects of ourselves that make us human."
Soviet psychiatry was used primarily as a political tool to control
dissident adults: psychotropic drugs were used to punish political
dissidents and others the government deemed to be "troublemakers." American
psychiatry is more ambitious than Soviet psychiatry ever was. US
psychiatrists collaborate with government agencies by providing a seal of
approval for involuntary "treatment" of persons loosely deemed to have a
"mental disorder", or to be unruly. US psychiatrists also collaborate in the
formulation of state-sponsored mental health policies--such as, "screening
for mental illness"--initiatives which primarily target children. In
Illinois, pregnant women are targeted for screening as well. [4]
Psychiatrists serve as experts on pharmaceutical industry sponsored
"consensus" panels, issuing practice guidelines that promote the extensive
use of psychotropic drugs to control behavior-and to enrich the drug
industry. [5] For these services, the drug industry provides psychiatry with
high financial rewards.
The most expansive (and expensive) US mental health initiatives are sure-bet
profit enhancers: Leading psychiatrists, primarily from the University of
Texas, backed by funding from Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson and 9 other major
pharmaceutical companies, formulated the Texas Medication Algorithm Project
(TMAP). [5] TMAP is a template for physicians, purporting to improve their
prescribing practices for antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers,
stimulants, anticonvulsants and other psychotropic drugs. TMAP has been
endorsed by a dozen or so, state mental health agencies, and by President
Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFC). The TMAP algorithm
model "is limited to medication strategies," and TMAP recommendations
require the use of the most expensive (profit generating) psychotropic
drugs.
For depressed children, TMAP recommends SSRI antidepressants as first line
treatment "because of supporting efficacy data" from fluoxetine, paroxetine
and sertraline. [5] This statement is patently false as the scientific
evidence refutes it. [6, 7]
NCF recommends mass screening for hidden mental illness--with emphasis on
school children. [8] This dubious initiative is a radical invasion of
privacy, leaving no room for individual choice--or the freedom for parents
to say no, to psychotropic drugs for their children. [4] Such mandatory,
government-endorsed screening programs contradict the freedoms guaranteed in
a democratic society.
If implemented, this "new freedom" initiative establishes a coercive
selection policy that opens the door to discrimination and forced treatment
with powerful, psychotropic drugs that have caused more harm to children
(and adults) than the conditions for which they were prescribed. Children
and adults who will be labeled mentally ill on the basis of unreliable,
subjective tests (essentially questionnaires), can expect to lose their
autonomy as a brigade of mental health providers intrudes on their lives and
takes over their decision-making authority. It is insidious because the
built-in full employment incentive for the mental health service
industry-including psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers-is
dependent upon taking away freedom from those declared "mentally ill."
Inasmuch as drugs are the backbone of psychiatric treatment in the US,
screening for mental illness is a strategy that will increase drug sales.
The TMAP psychotropic drug guidelines promote the increased use of
particular antidepressants and antipsychotics--even as the evidence raises
doubts about these drugs' safety and therapeutic efficacy.
Ironically, the failed Soviet approach of using psychotropic drugs to subdue
political critics, is now being applied en masse in America--vulnerable
children are especially targeted. Just as Soviet psychiatrists disregarded
the harm done to patients, American psychiatrists who embrace the same
dehumanizing biological approach disregard known and foreseeable adverse
consequences. American psychiatry (and the mental health industry) has an
added motivation that the Soviets lacked; namely, a financial stake in the
profitability of the pharmaceutical industry.
A Whistleblower Report by Allen Jones, the fired Investigator in the Office
of the Inspector General (PA), documents the pharmaceutical/political
alliance that led to the dubious recommendations of TMAP and NFC:
http://psychrights.org/Drugs/AllenJonesTMAPJanuary20.pdf
An editorial in Psychiatric News confirms Allen Jones' allegations that TMAP
is a pharmaceutical industry funded model. It helps explain why TMAP is
biased toward the most expensive drugs and why state Medicaid budgets are
being depleted by TMAP recommended drugs:
"TMAP received a total of $285,000 from 11 pharmaceutical companies for
start-up of the project. In the development of the guidelines for
depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and pediatric depression,
TMAP to date has spent more than $6 million. The list of funding sources is
long." [9]
References:
1. Prozac Found In System Of CYA [California Youth Authority] Teens Found
Dead - Drugs forced on children without parental permission. Feb. 26, 2004
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/2878886/detail.html ;
2. Lawsuit: State fired shrink for exposing abuse By NICOLE WEISENSEEEGAN.
Philadelphia Daily News:
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/9095033.htm ;
http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/04/07/07.html
3. Florida Medicaid Mental Health Drug Recommendations, FY 2004-2005
http://www.fdhc.state.fl.us/Medicaid/deputy_secretary/recent_presentations/mental_health_options_021004.pdf
4. IL launches compulsory mental health screening for children and pregnant
women Monday, July 19, 2004.
http://www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=17748
5. The Texas Children's Medication Algorithm Project: Report of the Texas
Consensus Conference Panel on Medication Treatment of Childhood Major
Depressive Disorder. Carroll W. Hughes. Journal of the American Academy of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Nov, 1999.
6. Jon N Jureidini, Christopher J Doecke, Peter R Mansfield, Michelle M
Haby, David B Menkes, Anne L Tonkin, Efficacy and safety of antidepressants
for children and Adolescents, British Medical Journal, online free at:
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7444/879?
7. Craig J Whittington, Tim Kendall, Peter Fonagy, David Cottrell, Andrew
Cotgrove, Ellen Boddington. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in
childhood depression: systematic review of published versus unpublished
data. The Lancet. Volume 363, Number 9418, April 24, 2004, online free at:
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/journal.isa
8. Bush Plans to Screen Whole US Population for Mental Illness by Jeanne
Lenzer - BMJ 2004;328:1458 (19 June)
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/328/7454/1458
9. Putting Clinical Trial Results in Perspective. Psychiatric News August 6,
2004 Volume 39 Number 15, p.35.
Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav
Tel: 212-595-8974
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/08/09/prevalence_of_drugs_for_dss_wards_questioned?mode=PF
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Prevalence of drugs for DSS wards questioned
By Jessica E. Vascellaro, Globe Correspondent August 9, 2004
A lawmaker and some parents are calling on the Commonwealth to disclose how many children in state care are being given psychotropic drugs, and for
government agencies to take a critical look at the procedures for allowing
these medicines to be prescribed. They cite what they call an alarming statistic about the number of children in the care of the state Department of Social Services who are being treated for mental illness.
Figures from the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership, an
organization contracted by DSS to coordinate mental health coverage for
children in foster care, guardianship programs, and some adoption cases,
show that almost two-thirds of children in DSS care received either
inpatient or outpatient mental health counseling or treatment during the
2003 fiscal year.
According to the data, the partnership provided 12,722 of 19,856 DSS
children with mental health counseling or treatment. The organization says
it does not keep track of how many children are prescribed psychotropic
medicines such as Ritalin, Adderall, and Prozac.
"We need to look into the use of these drugs on children," said state
Representative Marie Parente, chairwoman of the state special committee on
foster care. "We need a commission to examine the whole practice of
administering these psychotropic drugs to children in foster care."
Parente said the two-thirds percentage demands a closer look because it is
inordinately high, compared with the incidence of mental health disorders in
the general population. For example, the National Institute of Mental Health
estimates that up to 2.5 percent of children and up to 8.3 percent of
adolescents in the United States suffer from depression, and 4.1 percent of
9- to 17-year-olds suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, two
of the most common mental illnesses for which the young are treated.
"Many children come from problem homes, but the children are really fine,"
said Parente. But Dr. Elizabeth Childs, commissioner of the state's
Department of Mental Health, said the high number of children in state care
receiving mental health services is logical, given the children's tumultuous
family histories. "These numbers are absolutely high, but if anything we
need a heightened awareness, since these children might have an increased
need for mental health services," she said. "I would rather see that we did
intervene with 64 percent of the children than have 50 percent of the
children who need access not get it."
For the past two years, Parente has sponsored state budget amendments that
would create a task force to study how many children in state care are
prescribed psychotropic drugs. After her latest measure was approved by the
House and the Senate, Governor Mitt Romney vetoed the amendment earlier this summer.
Richard Powers, spokesman for the state Executive Office of Health and Human Services, said the governor supported an investigation but opposed the creation of a task force. "We don't oppose the study, but we didn't think a separate study was necessary," he said. "We also thought that a study might be expanded beyond the psychotropics to all medications that children in foster care are taking."
Others say they are skeptical of the state's current approach. Gail
Wilson-Giarratano of Springfield, who adopted her son in 2002, said that
Richard, now 12, came out of the state foster care system on more
medications than she could count and that she and her husband have been
trying to get him off the prescriptions ever since.
"He has been on meds for so long that nobody knows why they were issued,"
she said. "He has been labeled as having behaviors he doesn't show."
Parente also suggested that the state may be motivated to label children as
mentally ill because of the reimbursement checks they receive from the
federal government, which compensates Massachusetts for half of all Medicaid
expenditures.
She said the state files a pre-expenditure report outlining expected costs
and each patient's eligibility for Medicaid and other federal aid. While the
state is not reimbursed until it submits a report of services actually
provided, Parente said there is a lot of room for the state to fudge numbers
and list services that were never delivered.
"I am very concerned that they not label these children as having mental
health problems in order to receive federal reimbursement," she said.
Powers said that such suggestions are baseless. "DSS does not label children
to get more money," he said, adding that the department depends on the
assessment of mental health professionals for medical decisions.
While national statistics on the number of children in state care being
treated for mental illness do not exist, a 2004 study by the Chapin Hall
Center for Children at the University of Chicago found that only 37 percent
of 17-year-old foster children surveyed in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin had
received psychological and emotional counseling in the last year and almost
one-quarter had been prescribed psychiatric drugs. Those numbers are much
lower than the two-thirds figure recorded by the Massachusetts Behavioral
Health Partnership.
Loretta Kowal, a Massachusetts social worker on DSS's professional advisory
committee, said Massachusetts doctors strongly endorse the use of
psychotropic medicines.
"We have seen them be successful over and over again," she said. "There
probably is a belief in the Massachusetts community that when all else
fails, you try what's in the cabinet."
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
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