Posted by mcp on November 11, 2004, at 13:52:18 [reposted on November 12, 2004, at 7:46:45 | original URL]
*ACTION NEEDED!*
*TELL SENATE TO "JUST SAY NO!" TO UNIVERSAL *
*PSYCHIATRIC SCREENING AND DRUGGING CHILDREN*
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-------------------------------------------------*· *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.
<http://www.aapsonline.org/alerts/mhalertlinks.htm>;*· *Physicians: Print out flyer for your patients!
<http://www.aapsonline.org/alerts/mhalertlinks.htm>;*· *Please forward this message to everyone.*
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--------------------------------------------------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:_*
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We now have an easy, one-step way for everyone to send a letter to their
Senators, cour*tesy of the **Health** **Action** **Center** run by
"Citizens for Health."*All you need to do is click here.
<http://www.aapsonline.org/alerts/mhalertlinks.htm>;Enter your name and address, and a letter will automatically be sent to
yourSenators, with your signature. It takes about one minute.
*_DOCTORS & HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS_*_:_
If you are a doctor, CLICK HERE
<http://www.aapsonline.org/alerts/mhalertlinks.htm>to download a
one-page flyer to copy and distribute at your office and hospital
starting today!Association of American Physicians & Surgeons
1601 Tucson Blvd. Suite 9
Tucson, AZ 85716
(800) 635-1196
(520) 325-4230 Fax
www.aapsonline.org
poster:mcp
thread:414914
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