- The big Bush handout to pharmaceutical companies: mandatory
mental health screening for entire U.S. population
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- The Bush administration's handouts to pharmaceutical
companies just keep on coming. First, it was the Medicare discount drug
card scam which turned out to be a system that guaranteed pharmaceutical
industry profits thanks to sky-high prices of prescription drugs (the discounts
were nonexistent). Next, it was the initiation of an anti-terror drug research
program where the government would spend billions of dollars buying and
stockpiling expensive drugs and vaccines to counter biological weapons.
And now, it's the announcement that President Bush wants to mandate the
mental health screening of the entire U.S. population.
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- Why is this a handout to drug companies? Because these
so-called mental health "disorders" are often fictitious diseases
(like ADHD) that can easily be attributed to nearly anyone. And once a
person is labeled "diseased," they can be put on expensive prescription
drugs to alter their brain chemistry. Make no mistake: this sweeping "public
health" initiative is really just a clever way to dope up half the
population with expensive prescription drugs that alter brain chemistry.
It's a devious plan. And it's an invasion of personal privacy.
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- It's all made even worse by the sad fact that antidepressant
drugs, which will no doubt be prescribed in large quantities under this
initiative, are now proven to cause a 400% increase in the risk of a patient
committing suicide. They also provoke patients to engage in violent acts
against others. These antidepressants alter brain chemistry in dangerous
ways and should probably be banned, not unleashed on the entire population.
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- The fact is, people don't need prescription drugs to
deal with mental health problems in the first place. What they need is
good nutrition that includes cod liver oil or other sources of vitamin
D (a vitamin D deficiency is one of the most common causes of mental instability),
a daily dose of natural sunlight on their skin (sunshine cures depression,
and lack of sunshine is strongly correlated with clinical depression in
the medical literature), regular physical exercise (strength training,
jogging, swimming or other forms of physical exercise powerfully alter
brain chemistry in an uplifting way), and of course the consumption of
superior nutritional supplements made with brain-boosting medicinal herbs,
organic whole foods, or superfoods.
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- That's how you solve depression, dementia, schizophrenia
and other mental disorders. And you can eliminate ADHD practically overnight
by taking children off foods loaded with added sugars or refined carbohydrates
and putting them on whole foods, organic foods and select nutritional supplements.
See, mental health problems are not caused by a lack of prescription drugs:
they're caused by a lack of nutrition, sunlight and healthy physical activity.
If you want the entire country to experience outstanding mental health,
you've got to get the people to make healthy lifestyle choices and keep
them far away from prescription drugs.
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- But of course actually enhancing the mental health of
patients was never the goal of Bush's program. The intent, it seems, is
to generate billions of dollars in profits for Big Pharma while keeping
the population in a zombie-like state of mind where they will support more
military action against Iraq, or, at least, not question authority when
Ashcroft passes the second version of the Patriot Act that makes it a federal
crime to not take your medications...
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- http://www.newstarget.com/001481.html
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