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October 21, 2004
Action Alert on
Mental Health Screening
You can influence the funding of mental
health screening and treatment programs! While Congress and the presidential
candidates are campaigning, discussions decisions are being made about how to
finish the massive appropriations bills required for the federal budget in a
lame duck session after the election.
Included in that budget are up to $44 million to fund the recommendations of
the
New Freedom Commission such as universal mental health screening for
children as young as preschool age. The Commission recommends treatment with
powerful and potentially dangerous medications like Ritalin and Prozac. If you
want to do something about this huge potential loss of freedom, and prevent the
drugging of you and your children with admittedly ineffective and dangerous
medications, click
here:
Everything you need is there for you. If you understand the issue from
alerts sent out by
EdWatch, simply read the letter and
provide the requested information. Your letter will automatically be forwarded
on to your US Senators and Representative. If you need more information, just
click on the "Learn More About This Issue" button below the introduction on
that website.
If you care about this issue, please forward this email alert on to your
family, friends, and your circle of influence. Please post it on your websites.
Congress needs to hear from the public on this crucial issue. They will
certainly be more amenable to your concerns prior to the election.
EdAction is grateful to Michael Ostrolenk of Citizens for Health for his
assistance with this action alert, as well to The Association of American
Physicians and Surgeons, Gun Owners of America, Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for
America, The Liberty Committee, Freedom 21, The Alliance for Human Research
Protection, The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology,
and many other groups and individuals for their work in opposing these mental
health initiatives.
Disclaimer: EdAction thanks Citizens for Health for their support in the
fight against universal mental health screening and for the use of this action
alert to contact Congress on this important issue. The views and programs
endorsed by Citizens for Health on their website are not necessarily those of
EdAction.
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Your case for discussing these issues can be made stronger if you purchase
the Briefing Book now available from EdWatch that contains hard copies of nine
articles by Dr. Karen Effrem, Dr. Dennis Cuddy, Penny Pullen of Illinois, and
Karen Hayes of Illinois. A CD-rom contains all of those articles, plus a Power
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debate between Dr. Effrem and a member of the New Freedom Commission.
Ongoing action items:
1) Stay tuned and be ready to support the stand-alone legislation to
prevent universal mental health screening programs.
2) Let your state legislators know, especially during this campaign season, that
you do not want a mandatory universal mental health screening program in your
state, as is being done in Illinois and planned for New Jersey, Wisconsin, and
Hawaii.
To order the "Universal Health Screening" packet