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By Evelyn Pringle (about the author)
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"Searching out those "illnesses," rather than relying on the troubled to seek help for themselves, violates the privacy of those in whom these "illnesses" are sought, " Lehrman warns, "for those youngsters whose screenings supposedly reveal such "mental illness," the major treatment will then be drugs. "
"Aren't eight million kids on ritalin enough? " Dr Lehrman wants to know.
TeenScreen is always bragging that its screening tools are free. Apparently that was also a scam to convince schools to adopt the program. According to a September 27, 2004, email to Jim McDonough, schools will have to pay a fee beginning in 2006:
"The DPS (the 19 minute computer administered screening tool) that TeenScreen offers has been sold to Mental Health Systems ... Sites can continue using the DPS, but starting Jan 2006, they will have to pay a few hundred dollars. (The exact prices is yet to be decided) ... The DPS will still be offered by TeenScreen, it will just not be free anymore. "
On December 4, 2002, Flynn spoke to the NFC, and explained the cost of setting up one TeenScreen program: "Implementation in just one school district often requires piecing together over a dozen funding streams from the education and mental health fields."
Think about that for a minute, "piecing together over a dozen funding streams." So how much are local tax payers going to end up paying for school employees to set up a TeenScreen program in every school?
Something is very wrong here. This is pharma 's marketing scheme, yet tax payers are paying to set it up, paying school employees to administer the survey, paying for "clinicians " and "case managers, " and in 2006, the use of the survey itself will cost money.
On top of all that, mark my word, tax payers are going end up paying for shrinks for students without insurance and Medicaid programs will end up funding at least three-fourths of the drugs prescribed.
As I 've said before, this has got to be the most brilliant scheme that I have come across in my 2 years of investigating the pharmaceutical industry. Its all profit - tax dollars funneled through kids directly into pharma coffers. Brilliant.
No Laughing Matter
The pharmaceutical industry is taking over the world right before our very eyes. The harmful effects of the drug-makers' take-over is well-documented in Bob Whitaker's book, "Mad In America."
Right now pharma has over a 100 NAMI type marketing front groups in place all over the globe. It has succeeded in greasing enough palms to compromise the few government officials necessary to control the Federal and State funding allocated for prescription drug programs, and it has doctors in every field of medicine writing out prescriptions for expensive psychiatric drugs as if they were the cure-all for everything under the sun.
Its gotten so bad, that Dr Lehrman notes a need for public awareness of the extent to which the American medical profession is being prostituted by the drug companies, "In no other medical specialty has that prostitution reached the depths it has in my specialty, psychiatry, " he added.
Pharma has infiltrated the staff responsible for prescribing drugs in the country 's health care facilities, to boost profits by overmedicating patients, with most of the funding coming from tax dollars, causing state Medicaid programs to go broke left and right.
In addition, it controls the media with billions of advertising dollars so that when it does get busted for hiding harmful effects of drugs that kill people or paying doctors to push drugs for ailments they were never approved for, or shooting poisonous vaccines into infants for profit, or any of the other 1000 money-making schemes that its got going on any given day, the story might make front page headlines for a day or two at most.
It took hold of the nation 's regulatory agencies by making sure to get the majority of government researchers and scientists on their payrolls so that they will readily approve new drugs and then allow companies to make a killing off selling new drugs by hiding their adverse effects until people start dropping over dead.
Become a Fan (1 fan) -- Page 5 of 6 page(s)
"Aren't eight million kids on ritalin enough? " Dr Lehrman wants to know.
TeenScreen is always bragging that its screening tools are free. Apparently that was also a scam to convince schools to adopt the program. According to a September 27, 2004, email to Jim McDonough, schools will have to pay a fee beginning in 2006:
"The DPS (the 19 minute computer administered screening tool) that TeenScreen offers has been sold to Mental Health Systems ... Sites can continue using the DPS, but starting Jan 2006, they will have to pay a few hundred dollars. (The exact prices is yet to be decided) ... The DPS will still be offered by TeenScreen, it will just not be free anymore. "
On December 4, 2002, Flynn spoke to the NFC, and explained the cost of setting up one TeenScreen program: "Implementation in just one school district often requires piecing together over a dozen funding streams from the education and mental health fields."
Think about that for a minute, "piecing together over a dozen funding streams." So how much are local tax payers going to end up paying for school employees to set up a TeenScreen program in every school?
Something is very wrong here. This is pharma 's marketing scheme, yet tax payers are paying to set it up, paying school employees to administer the survey, paying for "clinicians " and "case managers, " and in 2006, the use of the survey itself will cost money.
On top of all that, mark my word, tax payers are going end up paying for shrinks for students without insurance and Medicaid programs will end up funding at least three-fourths of the drugs prescribed.
As I 've said before, this has got to be the most brilliant scheme that I have come across in my 2 years of investigating the pharmaceutical industry. Its all profit - tax dollars funneled through kids directly into pharma coffers. Brilliant.
No Laughing Matter
The pharmaceutical industry is taking over the world right before our very eyes. The harmful effects of the drug-makers' take-over is well-documented in Bob Whitaker's book, "Mad In America."
Right now pharma has over a 100 NAMI type marketing front groups in place all over the globe. It has succeeded in greasing enough palms to compromise the few government officials necessary to control the Federal and State funding allocated for prescription drug programs, and it has doctors in every field of medicine writing out prescriptions for expensive psychiatric drugs as if they were the cure-all for everything under the sun.
Its gotten so bad, that Dr Lehrman notes a need for public awareness of the extent to which the American medical profession is being prostituted by the drug companies, "In no other medical specialty has that prostitution reached the depths it has in my specialty, psychiatry, " he added.
Pharma has infiltrated the staff responsible for prescribing drugs in the country 's health care facilities, to boost profits by overmedicating patients, with most of the funding coming from tax dollars, causing state Medicaid programs to go broke left and right.
In addition, it controls the media with billions of advertising dollars so that when it does get busted for hiding harmful effects of drugs that kill people or paying doctors to push drugs for ailments they were never approved for, or shooting poisonous vaccines into infants for profit, or any of the other 1000 money-making schemes that its got going on any given day, the story might make front page headlines for a day or two at most.
It took hold of the nation 's regulatory agencies by making sure to get the majority of government researchers and scientists on their payrolls so that they will readily approve new drugs and then allow companies to make a killing off selling new drugs by hiding their adverse effects until people start dropping over dead.
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by t rogers on Saturday, Jul 30, 2005 at 3:48:15 PM