Action Alert on Mental Health Screening
Posted October 24, 2004
You can influence the funding of mental health screening and treatment programs! While
Congress and the presidential candidates are campaigning, 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.
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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.
Current information on
Universal Mental Health Screening
in Congress. Listen to Dr. Karen Effrem on
Changing Worldviews - Talk Radio With Sharon Hughes California Bay
Area the program will be archived online for three months
Order Information on Mental Health Screening Briefing Book
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 Point presentation with evidence to bolster
your case, and excerpts of a radio debate between Dr. Effrem and a member of the New Freedom
Commission.
Ongoin action items:
- Stay tuned and be ready to support the stand-alone legislation to prevent universal
mental health screening programs.
- 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
- Order from our shopping cart,
- Order with credit card by telephone (952) 361-4931, or
- Send $20 with a request for the "Universal Health Screening" packet, made out to EdWatch.
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