New Law Bans Forced Psychiatric Drugging Of Children

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New Law Bans Forced

Psychiatric Drugging

Of Children

News Release

Citizens Commission On Human Rights

12-4-4

 

President Bush Signs Landmark Legislation Prohibiting Forced

Psychiatric Drugging of Schoolchildren

 

Celebrities, Parents, Legislators and Civil Rights Groups Win

Victory for Children's Rights with Passage of the " Prohibition on Mandatory

Medication Amendment "

 

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.

 

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. "

 

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.

 

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. "

 

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.

 

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. "

 

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.

 

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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