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From Magic City Morning Star
A Maine Free Press LLC Publication:
(covering the Katahdin area of Millinocket, East Millinocket,
and Medway, Maine.)
Government's Big Lie: The "Crisis" of Babies With Undiagnosed Mental
Illness
By Laura Adelmann
Mar 21, 2006
http://magic-city-news.com/article_5541.shtml
To the federal government, many newborns, toddlers and preschoolers are
undiagnosed mental cases with dire need of "treatment" (read: drugs).
Following the appalling trend of labeling school children with an
ever-expanding list of mental disorders and medicating them with the
cocaine-class of drugs like Adderall and Ritalin, government is
promoting universal mental health screening and treatment " beginning
with babies.
The Federal Mental Health Action Agenda, the blueprint to implementing
the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, is targeting America's
youngest by promoting mental health screenings in places like daycares
and schools.
In a 2003 speech, Kathryn Power director of the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration, excitedly reported that mental
health assessments " "prevention and intervention" " are increasingly
being conducted in "non-mental health settings." She commended one
unnamed community for "placing mental health consultants in child care
settings." Also touted was the federal "Prevention and Early
Intervention Grant Program." Power noted the program's goal is to reach
children " and babies " before they "have a diagnosable problem." At
that time, Power stated, more than half of the administration's programs
were to focus on infants and preschoolers.
Mandatory screening of children against government-defined criteria of
what is "mentally healthy" is an Orwellian nightmare; the government
will decide if citizens, starting at birth, are "mentally healthy."
Dr. Karen Effrem, a Johns Hopkins-trained pediatrician, researcher and
expert on the government's movement toward universal mental health
screening, has been sounding the alarm about the dangers of this Big
Pharmaceutical movement for years.
She rightly states, "Government sponsored and controlled universal
mental health screening, no matter how sweetly wrapped in the fig leaf
of parental consent, should never, ever be implemented. It is never,
EVER, the proper role of government to set norms for, assess or
intervene in the thoughts and emotions of free citizens, much less
innocent, vulnerable, and still developing children. It is our thoughts
and emotions that make each of us uniquely and individually human, and
we use these thoughts and emotions to understand the world and maintain
our inalienable right to liberty."
Once a child has been screened, a highly subjective process, their
personal medical information will become part of state records,
potentially to be used as a screening tool for health care, employment,
military or college admissions. An identified child would likely be
ushered further into the psychological system for more assessments and "treatment,"a
term that's become a euphemism for Big Psychology's first methodology:
Drug therapy. And the mental health establishment is not shy about
drugging babies. Between 1995 and 1997, psychotropic drug prescriptions
for children from 2 to 4 years old grew by 300 percent.
Under the universal screening system, an identified child's family like
would also be brought into the equation. What happens to parents who
refuse to obey the psychological establishment's recommendations to drug
a baby" Would the parent be considered a child abuser" Perhaps there is
a genetic component the government screeners may want examined. Indeed,
the actual stated goal of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health is
much broader than just babies, it promotes mental health screening for
all, including "Teen Screen," an on-line mental health questionnaire.
Effrem said the program's author admits to an 84 percent false-positive
rate. "Any other medical test with that high of a false-positive rate
would be laughed out of the room," said Effrem in a March 2 speech, (to
be available on DVD at www.edwatch.org).
But "universal" mental health screening programs are already being
implemented, many through federal grant programs, in states around the
nation, said Effrem. The Florida Strategic Plan for Infant Mental Health
Plan's goal is to develop a system to prevent children from birth to age
five from developing emotional and behavioral disorders.
"Are we going to put the kids in a bubble" Are the parents becoming
breeders and feeders so that the government can provide this mental
health nirvana for these children?" Effrem asked.
Minnesota's early childhood screening program is being integrated to
"ensure" all children ages birth to 5 are screened "early and
continuously" for "socio-emotional" (euphemism for mental health) to
link "children and their families" to mental health services. In
Illinois, "all children" are to receive social and emotional screens and
the schools are to incorporate social and emotional standards as part of
the state's learning standards.
U.S. Cong. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has been a vocal opponent of mental health
screening. In his Sept., 2004 newsletter Texas Straight Talk, he wrote,
It's not hard to imagine a time 20 or 30 years from now when government
psychiatrists stigmatize children whose religious, social , or political
values do not comport with those of the politically correct, secular
state."
It may not take that long; Effrem said some mental health and
violence-prevention programs are already labeling children as mentally
ill or potentially violent based on political and religious criteria.
The people need to speak out: There is no baby mental health crisis in
America. Broad mental illness screening of babies is an outrageous
overreaching intrusion into children's personal thoughts, behaviors and
emotions, and it needs to be stopped
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