New freedom commission already locking people up.

[undergroundpanther]

The below superb article in the new _Mother Jones_
May/June 2005 issue ***EXPLODES*** the controversy
of psychiatric drugging of USA kids! Read how drug
companies are manipulating President Bush and state
officials to push drugs using "screening programs."

Did you know President Bush is calling for screening
*every* child and even every *ADULT* in the USA with
the drug company screening programs exposed below?

Are you next?

SAY NO TO PSYCHIATRIC DRUG SCREENING NOW!

Join a peaceful protest by MindFreedom International
to say "no" in Washington, D.C. on Monday, 2 May 2005
at noon directly in front of the headquarters of the
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
(PhRMA). For a downloadable news release, poster, etc.
see Protest Info Center at http://www.MindFreedom.org.

*BELOW* is a full copy of the _Mother Jones_ article.
Please get this out far & wide on & off the Internet!

~~~~~~~~~~

_Mother Jones_ May/June 2005 Issue

Medicating Aliah

When state mental health officials fall under
the influence of Big Pharma, the burden falls
on captive patients. Like this 13-year-old girl.

by Rob Waters

ALIAH GLEASON IS A BIG, lively girl with a
round face, a quick wit, and a sharp tongue.
She's 13 and in eighth grade at Dessau Middle
School in Pflugerville, Texas, an Austin
suburb, but could pass for several years
older. She is the second of four daughters of
Calvin and Anaka Gleason, an African American
couple who run a struggling business taking
people on casino bus trips.

In the early part of seventh grade, Aliah was
a B and C student who "got in trouble for
running my mouth." Sometimes her antics went
overboard -- like the time she barked at a
teacher she thought was ugly. "I was calling
this teacher a man because she had a
mustache," Aliah recalled over breakfast with
her parents at an Austin restaurant.

School officials considered Aliah disruptive,
deemed her to have an "oppositional disorder,"
and placed her in a special education track.
Her parents viewed her as a spirited child
who was bright but had a tendency to argue
and clown. Then one day, psychologists from
the University of Texas (UT) visited the
school to conduct a mental health screening
for sixth- and seventh-grade girls, and
Aliah's life took a dramatic turn.

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[Droopy]

1. I was struck most by Aliah's story

The rest is no surprise to me. Big corporations trying to gain influence in state run facilities and programs? That's just capitalism. Sure it's illegal, but it happens all the time. It's the elephant in the living room up there on the Hill.

But Aliah, a girl that just needed a little help with social adjustment, being taken away from her family and force fed drugs to try to change her behavior and held against her and her parent's will in what really amounts to a prison with doctors is just horrible. That needs to be investigated every bit as much as pharmacuetical companies trying to gain influnce with doctors. I bet Aliah is just one person in a long line of people who have been unjustly held against their will and medicated against their will.

Disclaimer: I take Geodon and I think it's the best thing since sliced bread.

[EFerrari]

2. Ditto, Droopy. Before Doug was on Geodon, his life was hell.

And, in my experience, most docs don't know how to monitor these drugs. So, people who take them in the public system get all kinds of sh&t for being "noncompliant" when the problem is in the appripriateness and the administration.

(As if "compliance" were a goal and not a kind of soul sickness, all by itself! That's my next topic, an essay on "Compliance.")

These bastards.