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June 21, 2006

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The Record Searchlight (Redding, CA)

June 19, 2006

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Concord, N.H.

Dear Editor: How could anyone think that taking psychiatric drugs, with or

without " talk therapy " would be beneficial? Scientific data reveals that

antidepressants cause suicidality in children and adults. And more than 19

warnings have been issued on the dangers of psychiatric drugs since October

2004. Suicides, deaths, violence have been connected with the drugs given to

children and teens. An epidemic is occurring: the number of children who have

been and are taking lethal drugs as a result of screening, labeling and

treatment given by psychiatrists. The teens are given drugs that are in the same

class as morphine, opium and cocaine. ( " Drug Scheduling " , U.S. Drug Enforcement

Administration). Psychiatry's treatments are not safe, nor do they cure. But

there are proven methods that do help and are safe. Depression is often a

symptom of several physical ills, that can be helped by seeing a medical doctor.

Lack of proper nutrition can cause teens to go " wild " . Excessive sugar, and no

breakfast will do it. Help with this has proven to be effective. Getting real

education. Many children have gotten rid of depression with just getting the

skills of reading and math. The risk of suicides can be handled so much easier,

and with methods that do not kill.

Sunland, Calif.

You are one of the papers who ran with the UPI release regarding teen suicides

and proposed solutions to those problems.

The premise of the UPI release is flawed and you as a responsible journalist

should make the correction known to your readers.

There is no " suicide epidemic. " Child suicide rates have been declining since

the early 1990s.

As long as you continue to spread obvious falsehoods and do not correct them,

you will lose readership.

Portsmouth, Ohio

I have done my own research as a parent and have talked with thousands of

parents across the east coast and the verdict is that screening is only about

the drugs. TeenScreen will tell you all day that they are only interested in

preventing suicide, but the end result is putting those kids they think are at

risk of committing the act on psychiatric drugs. Most kids are midiagnosed or

are already on a stimulant like Ritalin or Adderall for ADHD and they have side

effects which look like a psychiatric disorder so they may be given another

disorder and put on another medication and now we really have some mental

problems going on as these side effects are pretty serious, some being

permanent, such as tics (Tourette's syndrome). I am very happy to see that the

press is taking a second and third look at this science that claims to help

people with their mental illnesses because all I saw was people in misery on

their drugs.

Las Vegas

RE: " Screening for teen suicide risk debated - More drugs and less privacy cause

worry "

Teen Screen's information is misleading and disingenuous at best, and completely

dishonest in its intent.

Teen Screen claims that " no child is screened without a parent's permission " .

What she doesn't admit is that this is a recent change in policy resulting from

litigation brought against Teen Screen by the parents of an Indiana minor who

was screened without their knowledge or permission. That was due to Teen

Screen's previous policy of using " passive consent " , a covert attempt to bypass

parental authority over their own children. Teen Screen justified such an action

because it increased the number of students they could snare in their web. If

parents had to actually consent to their kids being screened, why that would

drastically reduce the number of target children they could divert toward

psychiatric " treatment " . Unfortunately for Teen Screen, the Indiana parents

chose to stand up for their rights and challenge the legitimacy of Teen Screen's

underhanded tactics. Full details on the Federal lawsuit are available here:

http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen_lawsuit.html

Teen Screen's widely trumpeted " statistics " on suicide and mental illness are

based solely on " research " funded by pharmaceutical companies, in an attempt to

promote the sale of their latest toxic concoctions. What they don't tell us is

that a large percentage of adolescent suicides occur with individuals who either

had been under, or are currently under the same type of psychiatric " treatment "

which TeenScreen attempts to promote - psychiatric drugs. These types of

suicides are not isolated incidents, but an all too common result for the

victims of psychiatric care. This should be a huge red flag, alerting all to the

total failure of Psychiatry as a means of helping those with mental problems.

Teen Screen also fails to tell us that the lengthy list of mental " disorders "

for which they wish to screen our children are merely groups of symptoms voted

into existence by a cabal of psychiatrists. Based solely upon such

pseudo-scientific data, they proclaim a " public health crisis " where none

exists. Meanwhile, Teen Screen's attempt to incite mass hysteria by proclaiming

a " Suicide Epidemic " is also founded on totally false information. According to

the Centers for Disease Control, the suicide rate for all children ages 0 thru

19 between years 1981 and 2002, per 100,000 of the populace in the given age

range, is as follows: 1981 - 2.7; rising to a high in 1988 of 3.24. Since then

the number has shown a marked decline excepting 1993 and1994 - 2.96 and 3.00

respectively. In 1997 the rate dropped to 2.69 (below the 1981 numbers) and has

continued to plunge ever since, with a 2002 rate of 2.19. Where then is the

so-called " epidemic " . It exists solely in the minds of those who would profit by

screening our kids, falsely labeling them with bogus " disorders " and then

drugging them into a stupor, all in the name of greed and corporate profit.

For all of its pervasive propaganda, Psychiatry as a profession remains a

complete and utter failure. If this were not a true statement, we would be

reading daily accounts of the wonderful and " miraculous " recovery of afflicted

persons who are now leading perfectly normal and happy lives as a result of the

efficacious treatment received. No such tales of wonder are trumpeted in the

daily news. Why not? Because psychiatric care, consisting primarily of

prescribing mind-numbing pharmaceutical agents, doesn't work. The FDA has

mandated " black box " labels to warn doctors and patients about the potentially

lethal side effects (eg. increased risk of suicide) of those very drugs which

are supposed to treat such problems.

The sad fact is that we, as a society, are the victims of a huge money-making

scam being perpetrated by Psychiatry and Big Pharma, a scam facilitated by the

false offers of help trumpeted by Teen Screen and their ilk. Families whose

children fall victim to their avaricious plots, and those children who are

damaged by these psychotropic medications, or worse yet, die as a result of the

very real side effects of same, are simply considered " collateral damage " , the

cost of doing business.

Fortunately, the internet provides a readily available source for information

about almost any subject one wishes to research. It simply requires one to type

in a few key words, and then spend the time sifting thru the available data to

reach a conclusion. Maintaining an objective point of view, and a willingness to

confront a degree of evil usually credited only to comic book villains, will

allow the researcher to discover the real truth about this sordid mess.

As a starting point, I strongly encourage your readers to find out the truth for

themselves by taking a look at:

www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html

Clearwater

Even though your article paints the Teenscreen program in a positive light - the

very core of the opposition to this program is contained in the sentence " He had

seen a psychiatrist shortly before he committed suicide and was given a

prescription for an anti-depressant " . This is exactly why informed individuals

are opposed to funneling more kids to the drug/psychiatric industry - their

" solution " , drugs, cause suicide, as at-long-last recognized even by the FDA.

Fresno

Teen suicides have been on the decline for ten years. Almost 40% of the suicides

were on anti-depressants. Now psychiatry is creating the 'impression' that there

is an epidemic. Their solution,of course, is to put 90% of them on the very

profitable anti-depressants which ,by the way, have a side effect of suicide.

How could such a dishonest propaganda campaign be allowed you may ask. Follow

the money.You can use Google to find out. How much does each 'elected

representative's accept in campaign contributions(bribes) from pharmaceutical

companies. How many lobbyist's do pharmaceutical companies assign to each

'elected representative? Can you as a parent compete with that? Then most

important find out the propaganda techniques used by psychiatry to manipulate

your opinion. Find out all about Sigmund Freud's nephew Bernays 'Here is

a quote: Bernays (assistant to Paley, head of CBS): Those who manipulate

the organized habits and opinions of the masses constitute an invisible

government which is the true ruling power of our country. . . It is not

generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential

public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.

- L. Bernays, PROPAGANDA

To quote the truth from your article seems almost boring compared to the fear

being fanned by psychiatry but the truth will set you free of the clutches of

the unscrupulas.

" Although the argument that treating mental disorders would reduce suicides is

intuitively appealing, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a federal panel

of independent experts, concluded in 2004 that there was insufficient evidence

either for or against general physicians screening the public for suicide risk. "

I hope I have appealed to the other half of your intuition

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