- President Bush Signs Landmark Legislation Prohibiting
Forced Psychiatric Drugging of Schoolchildren
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- Celebrities, Parents, Legislators and Civil Rights Groups
Win Victory for Children's Rights with Passage of the "Prohibition
on Mandatory Medication Amendment"
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- LOS ANGELES - Celebrities
Lisa Marie Presley, Kelly Preston, Kirstie Alley, Jenna Elfman and Juliette
Lewis joined the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a mental health
watchdog established by the Church of Scientology, in applauding Congress
for passing precedent-setting legislation that bans school personnel forcing
parents to drug their children for classroom or behavioral problems. In
order to receive federal funds under the Individuals with Disabilities
in Education Act (IDEA), the "Prohibition on Mandatory Medication
Amendment," was signed into law by President Bush today and requires
schools to implement policies that prohibit schoolchildren being forced
onto psychiatric drugs as a requisite for their education.
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- Hundreds of parents across America have been pressured
to put their school-aged children onto cocaine-like stimulants or antidepressants
for which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just ordered a "black
box label" warning of the drugs' high risk of causing suicide among
children and adolescents. Ms. Kelly Preston, who met with members of Congress
in June last year to enlist support of the amendment, said, "Every
mother has an inherent right to protect her child from harm. However, many
mothers have been denied that right because psychiatrists have inundated
unwitting teachers with the false opinion that educational and behavioral
problems are symptoms of 'mental disorders' that require mind-altering
drugs. This law gives hope for a new era in education, one where teachers
are free to work with parents to find academic solutions instead of unworkable
and harmful psychiatric treatments that benefit no one but the psychiatric
industry."
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- Many groups supported the amendment, including the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National
Foundation of Women Legislators (NFWL), Parents for a Label and Drug Free
Education, as well as numerous state and federal legislators.
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- Bruce Wiseman, the U.S. President of CCHR says, "Psychiatrists
did not want to let go of their stronghold of American schools and launched
massive counter efforts to kill this legislation. However, people are waking
up to the fact that psychiatric 'mental disorders' have absolutely no scientific/medical
validity and that psychiatrists falsely portray them as a disease or physical
condition to convince teachers and parents that these are medical issues,
which is a complete fraud. Psychiatric 'disorders' are simply checklists
of behaviors-symptoms presumed to be related-and voted by members of the
American Psychiatric Association to be included in their insurance billing
bible, the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This
has been used to justify the administration of dangerous drugs to more
than 8 million children. Parents and teachers were never informed about
documented side effects of many of these drugs, including suicide, violence,
mania and psychosis."
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- CCHR says the next step in educational reform is to remove
psychiatric and psychological testing and screening from schools which
are the feeder lines to psychiatrists who have made turning schools into
mental health clinics a business. Millions of students are now dependent
upon psychiatric drugs or are taking them illegally. CCHR, joined by scores
of parents and civil rights groups, say the New Freedom Commission on Mental
Health's recommendations for mandatory mental health screening in school
is a frightening representation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, in
which Huxley describes a controlled "utopian" civilization achieved
with the "technique of suggestion-through infant conditioning and,
later, with the aid of drugs." While the "Prohibition on Mandatory
Medication Amendment" will help prevent some of psychiatry's propensity
to drug all normal childhood behavior, many charge that the spurious sounding
"Freedom Commission on Mental Health" and its recommendations
will open another door to dangerous conditioning leading to massive increases
in psychotropic drugging of a new generation.
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- Dr. Julian Whitaker, director of California's Whitaker
Wellness Center warns that the motive behind mandatory mental health screening
of children is obvious: "That means drugging them!" For psychiatry,
this means, "52 million potential customers." He offers this
advice to parents: "First of all, refuse to sign those consent forms
when they come home from your child's school-if they can't test them, they
can't drug them."
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- CCHR will monitor the implementation of this law so that
any parent who may still experience coercion to drug their child can contact
CCHR to report this and for assistance.
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- For more information on psychiatric screening of schoolchildren,
read CCHR's new publication "Harming Youth: Psychiatry Destroys Young
Minds," by clicking here. (You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, available
free by clicking here.)
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