Mandatory mental health screening program would dose pregnant women

[genieroze]

with prescription drugs that cause birth defects.

Bureaucrats in Chicago are currently discussing a proposal to require the mental health screening of all pregnant women and children up to the age of 18 years old. The purported mission of the program is to protect the health of the public by diagnosing mental disorders before they become full blown problems -- but in reality, as we've seen from similar programs in the past, the real mission is to diagnose people with fictitious brain diseases and behavioral disorders, then dose them with highly toxic prescription drugs that not only generate profits for pharmaceutical companies, but also for the psychiatrists who prescribe them.

What's especially frightening about this program is that it may include the dosing of pregnant women with prescription drugs that we now know increase the risk of birth defects. We also know from clinical trials and experiments involving mice that children who grow up on antidepressant drugs have a much higher risk of being depressed as adults whether or not they continue taking those drugs.

In other words, it's not enough that as a nation we misdiagnose childhood hyperactivity caused by sugar consumption as being a brain chemistry imbalance and then dose all those children with Ritalin, it seems that we also want to start dosing pregnant women as well. Who's next? Are we going to dose all men under the age of 30? Are we going to require the mental health screening of all elderly people, and start dosing everyone over the age of 65 with brain altering drugs too?

There seems to be no limit to how far the highly corrupt psychiatry community and prescription drug companies will carry this to exert control over the population and generate obscene profits. And the truth is that anyone can be diagnosed with a mental disorder given sufficient creativity on the part of the psychiatrists. If a person is too creative and excited, they have Attention Deficit Disorder. If they're not creative enough, they have a reading disorder. And if they get nervous while being observed by the psychiatrist, they obviously have a social anxiety disorder. See? It doesn't take much to invent behavioral disorders and then come up with fraudulently marketed drugs that claim to mask symptoms of those disorders.

http://www.newstarget.com/002566.html

[noamnety]

1. Gotta love how they lump that together

Women and children.

Men don't have mental problems, of course, because they can take care of themselves.

[genieroze]

2. Maybe men are the cause, they cause the wars.

:silly:

[bettyellen]

6. and the stock market frauds, rapes, robbery, murder, etc!

Jeeze the list goes on, doesn't it? By all accounts men, should be the ones who are medicated.
What bullshit!

[Turbineguy]

3. Where is Doctor

Mengele, now that his time has arrived?

[elehhhhna]

4. and expectant fathers? any tests for them?

[bettyellen]

7. did you know you can get birth defects from a drunk guys sperm?

Or, a really old guys sperm?
Has anybody started prosecuting men for this?

[MountainLaurel]

10. Or a drug user's sperm

A faculty member at my undergraduate institution who was notorious for recreational drug use during the 70s and 80s (as a friend put it: "there wasn't much he didn't put down his throat, in his arms, or up his nose") fathered a child whose birth defects included physical deformities, deafness, and a mental capacity that would never rise above a 6-year-olds level. He admitted that it was his fault the child was born with these problems.

When will states like SC, that regularly incarcerate women for drug use during pregnancy, realize that the medical evidence shows that the male's drug use is just as damaging, except that it happens prior to conception. You think we'll see them testing prospective fathers anytime soon?

[bettyellen]

14. Whoa, and most guys have no idea!

Everytime I see a Viagra commercial, I think, I hope these guys are using birth control, becasue nature's trying to tell you not to proceate. And maybe you shouldn't, ya geezewad!
It just pisses me off so much, I don't blame guys for not being more aware, it's just they let it all get put on women, and it takes two to, doesn't it!

[baba]

5. As someone with AD/HD

I can tell you that being a little too "creative and excited" is not the problem! If anything AD/HD blocks my creativity by making it impossible to concentrate on creative projects. AD/HD is not just about hyperactivity. In fact, many people have the "predominantly inattentive type" which is not accompanied by hyperactivity. With any kind of AD/HD, the symptoms include inattentiveness, trouble concentrating, and difficulty finishing tasks. These symptoms need to affect functioning in at least 2 areas of life for a diagnosis to be given.

[gorrister]

8. I agree with this article 100%

though it's probably going to make the pro-Soma crowd very angry.

oh well, they can alway pop an anti-anger pill, I guess.

http://www.breggin.com/

[Samurai_Writer]

9. All I have to say is...

They can 'test' all they want... but are they going to go house-to-house and forcibly stuff the pills down our throats? Sure, write me a prescription. Are they going to PAY for all these meds too? Even if they did, I could just as easily flush them down the toilet. How would they know I'm not taking them? They going to have the medication police come and get me? Screw that.

[Why Syzygy]

11. Scary indeed

when those with the most flagrant mental disorders insist upon diagnosing the rest of the population, eh?

[RobinA]

12. Sounds Like

hysterical nonsense to me. Why are these pregnant women being forced to take drugs? You can't give people drugs without their consent.

[baba]

13. That's because nobody is going to be forced to take drugs.

The article has no basis in fact. It is, as you say, hysterical nonsense.

[genieroze]

15. We aren't exactly sure what this law will do.

[H2O Man]

16. The modern "chicken little" story

which is being used to scare people needlessly.

[proudbluestater]

17. I think I'll withhold judgement on this until some official source

appears. The author is a holistic "pharmacist." Not that he might not be right, but he does have his own axe to grind.

[depakid]

18. All you conspiracy theorists NEVER answer the simple question

WHO is going to pay for the medication?

Do any of you have the slightest clue how much crazy meds cost?
Unlikely.

You think private insurers are going to pay? Maybe they will- for some.
You think the state's going to pay? Hardly. Check your medicaid programs.

You think the feds are going to pony up the kind of extra money you all are talking about?

So- who is it?