 
11/10/2004
TELL SENATE TO
“JUST SAY NO!” TO UNIVERSAL PSYCHIATRIC
SCREENING AND DRUGGING CHILDREN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ·
Senate meets in lame
duck session next week to pass appropriations bill. ·
Bill includes funding
for universal mental health screening & recommendations for treating
children with psychotropic drugs. ·
Contact your Senators
this week and tell them to withdraw this funding. ·
Click-through to send
letter to your Senators in less than a minute. ·
Physicians: Print out flyer for your
patients! ·
Please forward this
message to everyone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The
Senate will re-convene next week in a lame duck session with the sole purpose of
passing an omnibus appropriations bill – work left incomplete before the
elections. Included
in the current version of the appropriations bill is funding for grants to
implement universal mental health screening for almost 60 million children,
pregnant women, and adults through schools and
pre-schools. The
bill would fund initiatives of the “New Freedom Commission
on Mental Health,” including a program designed to subject every school age
child in this country to psychological testing and recommendations for
treatment. The House has already
voted to appropriate $20 million for the scheme, and the Senate wants to bump it
up to $44 million. This is a dangerous
scheme that will heap even more coercive pressure on parents to medicate
children with potentially dangerous side effects. Further, even the government’s own task
force has concluded that mental health screening does little to prevent
suicide. Tell the Senate
leadership to remove the funding for grants to implement the recommendations of
the New Freedom Commission in Mental Health from the omnibus appropriations
bill. Take action now and
tell the Senate not to fund any programs that call for universal mental health
screening of our children. Here's how to
help: EVERYONE: We now have an easy,
one-step way for everyone to send a letter to their Senators, courtesy
of the All you need to do is click here. Enter your name and
address, and a letter will automatically be sent to your Senators, with your
signature. It takes about one minute. DOCTORS & HEALTH CARE
PROFESSIONALS: If you are a doctor,
CLICK HERE to
download a one-page flyer to copy and distribute at your office and hospital
starting today! Materials are posted
for downloading at www.AAPSonline.org Association
of American Physicians & Surgeons (800)
635-1196 (520)
325-4230 Fax www.aapsonline.org |