Guest guest Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 Here's an article that was posted on another board. I agree with . Your friend is seeing only what she wants to see. And at one time it was proposed that people who had a problem taking their medications mandated by the courts would have a mental health worker come to their house to administer the medications. Prozac Police in Third Reich Jackboots. It can and probably will happen here. ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) Promoting openness and full disclosure http://www.ahrp.org FYI Illinois state legislators who enacted a bill to screen all children from 0 to 18--are having second thoughts about the ramifications of what they had signed: "After reviewing the Children's Mental Health Task Force recommendations from the preliminary report, I have serious reservations about some of the ways the partnership is translating the intent of the bill. There is considerable misunderstanding about the intent.. [statement by State Rep. Patti Bellock (R-Wheaton), a co-sponsor of the original legislation] The Illinois plan, would have been the first in the nation to implement the insidious screening plan under the Presidents' New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFC). NFC recommends screening the entire US population for mental illness. , a Pennsylvania whistleblower, has documented the genesis of such state and federal mental health initiatives. has traced mental health screening initiatives--including the one in Illinois-- to the pharmaceutical companies that have the most to gain from such expansive "mental health services": "The Children's Mental Health Act 2003 is the tip of an insidious iceberg." "The pharmaceutical industry is gaining back door access to all of our children by compromising key decision makers and by gaining rubber stamped endorsements of groups like the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership." Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav Tel: e-mail: veracare@a... http://www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=18658 IL Children's Mental Health Plan gives legislators headache Tuesday, August 17, 2004 By The Illinois Leader-Springfield Bureau SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois recently gained national and international attention as the first state to put into law a template for mental health screening that could become a national model for government mandated "evidence-based practices screening" for emotional and social disorders for the state's children. But now, some state legislators are expressing concern that those putting the law into practice are either over-reaching its original intent, or the language of the law is problematic. Last August, Governor Rod Blagojevich signed the Illinois Children's Health Act of 2003. It stated in part: The State of Illinois shall develop a Children's Mental Health Plan containing short-term and long-term recommendations to provide comprehensive, coordinated mental health prevention, early intervention, and treatment services for children from birth through age 18. The Act stipulated the creation of the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership, which is to submit a preliminary plan of action to the Governor on September 30. The Partnership reports directly to the governor. Last month, the Partnership held a series of public hearings around the state to unveil its plan. Recommendations included screening all pregnant women for depression, with in-home visit follow-up. It is the Partnership's recommendations that began raising red flags. State Rep. Patti Bellock (R-Wheaton), a co-sponsor of the original legislation, spelled out some concerns with the plan to IllinoisLeader.com in a prepared statement: "After reviewing the Children's Mental Health Task Force recommendations from the preliminary report, I have serious reservations about some of the ways the partnership is translating the intent of the bill. There is considerable misunderstanding about the intent.. I have strong objections to some of the recommendations: 1. I do not agree that all women should be screened for depression during pregnancy and following the birth of a child up to one year postpartum. I also do not agree with extending the Medicaid coverage beyond the 60 days postpartum. There is no mention of pregnant women in SB 1951 at all. 2. I do not agree that all children birth to age five receive periodic developmental screens. I also do not agree with a data reporting state system to track who is screened. This is a violation of privacy. 3. I do not agree with requiring social-emotional development screens with all mandated school exams (K, 4th, and 9th) or a major transition time. 4. I do not agree with report cards on children's social-emotional development, either." State Sen. Lauzen (R-Aurora), who along with all 59 members of the Illinois Senate voted for the final version of the bill, said today, "If this negative interpretation of the Act is accurate, it is personally discouraging to me that this bill could have gone through the hearing process with everybody voting it forward, and none of the true implications of what this bill was all about were understood by many of voting on it." Lauzen added, "I believe that the last people who should be defining what is normal and abnormal are Springfield politicians, including myself!" Additional concerns about the Children's Mental Health Plan involve potential drug company involvement. "The Children's Mental Health Act 2003 is the tip of an insidious iceberg," said , a former investigator in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Inspector General and the Bureau of Special Investigations. is now a federal whistleblower who monitors mental health initiatives throughout the country. "The pharmaceutical industry is gaining back door access to all of our children by compromising key decision makers and by gaining rubber stamped endorsements of groups like the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership," said . The Plan was based upon the report, "Children's Mental Health: An Urgent Priority for Illinois" by the Illinois Children's Mental Health Task Force, a group sponsored by Ounce of Prevention and funded by The Woods Foundation, the charitable arm of & and Janssen Pharmaceutica. The Irving B. Foundation is also credited with start up contributions. This new initiative if enacted, would make Illinois the first state to ratify policies that align systems of care with President Bush's New Freedom Report. The New Freedom Report recommends universal mental health screening of all United States citizens, with an emphasis on school children. C 2004 IllinoisLeader.com -- all rights reserved "Blind Reason" a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Latest Press Release Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 Hi, I sent the article to many friends about the bush administration trying to take control of our brains and making mandatory screening.. here is something that a friend sent me back.... and it does have a different slang to to it........... She says that it is only for people that already have serious mental health issues.. and when you read the New freedom initative act , it does not sound as it did in the article that I read that was sent.. I am not quite sure what to believe... Anyhow here is a different view..... and she states in reply : Apparently written by someone very anti-Bush who obviously has a personal vendetta against him!! Sounds like another personal smear campaign to me...can't always believe everything that's written! It's a well known fact that the Republican party tries to MINIMIZE the control of government in every facet of life, not take over....it's Democrats that encourage total government control! That's been one of the major differences between the two parties since the beginning! I certainly can't see the "government" FORCING people to be screened for mental health just because. C'mon....that would never fly in America.....thank goodness! I've attached below what the New Freedom Initiative act is all about....it has more to do with protecting people with disabilities from discrimination and helping to integrate them back into society. Mental Health is a small part of it so I included all I could find on it, but if you'll notice over and over it mentions it's only for adults that have already been diagnosed with serious mental illness and children that have already been diagnosed with serious emotional disturbances. So rest easy....the big, bad government is not going to come knocking on your door trying to screen you for mental health and then offer you drugs! The New Freedom InitiativePresident Bush announced the New Freedom Initiative on February 1, 2001, as part of a nationwide effort to remove barriers to community living for people with disabilities. Today, there are more than 54 million Americans living with a disability, representing a full 20 percent of the U.S. population. Almost half of these individuals have a severe disability affecting their ability to see, hear, walk or perform other basic functions of life. In addition, there are more than 25 million family caregivers and millions more who provide aid and assistance to people with disabilities. The New Freedom Initiative is a comprehensive plan that represents an important step in working to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to learn and develop skills, engage in productive work, make choices about their daily lives and participate fully in community life. The Initiative's goals are to: Increase access to assistive and universally designed technologies; Expand educational opportunities; Promote homeownership; Integrate Americans with disabilities into the workforce; Expand transportation options; and Promote full access to community life. The initiative's specific proposals that directly involve HHS include: promoting full access to community life through swift implementation of the Olmstead Supreme Court decision; integrating Americans with disabilities into the workforce through swift implementation of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (TWWIIA); and the creation of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Home > News & Policies Foreword by President W. Bush My Administration is committed to tearing down the barriers to equality that face many of the 54 million Americans with disabilities. Eleven years ago the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) made it a violation of federal law to discriminate against a person with a disability. But there is much more to do. Though progress has been made in the last decade, too many Americans with disabilities remain trapped in bureaucracies of dependence, denied the tools they need to fully access their communities. The unemployment rate for Americans with disabilities hovers at 70 percent. Home ownership rates are in the single digits. And Internet access for Americans with disabilities is half that of people without disabilities. I am committed to tearing down the remaining barriers to equality that face Americans with disabilities today. My New Freedom Initiative will help Americans with disabilities by increasing access to assistive technologies, expanding educational opportunities, increasing the ability of Americans with disabilities to integrate into the workforce, and promoting increased access into daily community life. I look forward to working with Congress to see these proposals become law. President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Executive Order By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve America's mental health service delivery system for individuals with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Establishment. There is hereby established the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (Commission). Sec. 2. Membership. (a) The Commission's membership shall be composed of: (i) Not more than fifteen members appointed by the President, including providers, payers, administrators, and consumers of mental health services and family members of consumers; and (ii) Not more than seven ex officio members, four of whom shall be designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the remaining three of whom shall be designated -- one each -- by the Secretaries of the Departments of Labor, Education, and Veterans Affairs. ( The President shall designate a Chair from among the fifteen members of the Commission appointed by the President. Sec. 3. Mission. The mission of the Commission shall be to conduct a comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system, including public and private sector providers, and to advise the President on methods of improving the system. The Commission's goal shall be to recommend improvements to enable adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances to live, work, learn, and participate fully in their communities. In carrying out its mission, the Commission shall, at a minimum: (a) Review the current quality and effectiveness of public and private providers and Federal, State, and local government involvement in the delivery of services to individuals with serious mental illnesses and children with serious emotional disturbances, and identify unmet needs and barriers to services. ( Identify innovative mental health treatments, services, and technologies that are demonstrably effective and can be widely replicated in different settings. © Formulate policy options that could be implemented by public and private providers, and Federal, State, and local governments to integrate the use of effective treatments and services, improve coordination among service providers, and improve community integration for adults with serious mental illnesses and children with serious emotional disturbances. Sec. 4. Principles. In conducting its mission, the Commission shall adhere to the following principles: (a) The Commission shall focus on the desired outcomes of mental health care, which are to attain each individual's maximum level of employment, self-care, interpersonal relationships, and community participation; ( The Commission shall focus on community-level models of care that efficiently coordinate the multiple health and human service providers and public and private payers involved in mental health treatment and delivery of services; © The Commission shall focus on those policies that maximize the utility of existing resources by increasing cost effectiveness and reducing unnecessary and burdensome regulatory barriers; (d) The Commission shall consider how mental health research findings can be used most effectively to influence the delivery of services; and (e) The Commission shall follow the principles of Federalism, and ensure that its recommendations promote innovation, flexibility, and accountability at all levels of government and respect the constitutional role of the States and Indian tribes. Sec. 5. Administration. (a) The Department of Health and Human Services, to the extent permitted by law, shall provide funding and administrative support for the Commission. ( To the extent funds are available and as authorized by law for persons serving intermittently in Government service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707), members of the Commission appointed from among private citizens of the United States may be allowed travel expenses while engaged in the work of the Commission, including per diem in lieu of subsistence. All members of the Commission who are officers or employees of the United States shall serve without compensation in addition to that received for their services as officers or employees of the United States. © The Commission shall have a staff headed by an Executive Director, who shall be selected by the President. To the extent permitted by law, office space, analytical support, and additional staff support for the Commission shall be provided by executive branch departments and agencies. (d) Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, may apply to the Commission, any functions of the President under that Act, except for those in section 6 of that Act, shall be performed by the Department of Health and Human Services, in accordance with the guidelines that have been issued by the Administrator of General Services. Sec. 6. Reports. The Commission shall submit reports to the President as follows: (a) Interim Report. Within 6 months from the date of this order, an interim report shall describe the extent of unmet needs and barriers to care within the mental health system and provide examples of community-based care models with success in coordination of services and providing desired outcomes. ( Final Report. The final report will set forth the Commission's recommendations, in accordance with its mission as stated in section 3 of this order. The submission date shall be determined by the Chair in consultation with the President. Sec. 7. Termination. The Commission shall terminate 1 year from the date of this order, unless extended by the President prior to that date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 Dear nne, Your friend sees this as a political Republican vs. Democrats issue. It isn't. It's about the cozy relationship the drug industry has with the government and specifically with Bush. I don't have the time to go into this extensively but maybe some of our members can post some articles on this. The federal New Freedom Initiative has MANDATED that all states develop programs to screen ALL children for " mental illness " . This is one aspect of the bill. Your friend has shown another aspect for people already identified as having " disabilities " . Your friend commented: <<Mental Health is a small part of it so I included all I could find on it, but if you'll notice over and over it mentions it's only for adults that have already been diagnosed with serious mental illness and children that have already been diagnosed with serious emotional disturbances. So rest easy....the big, bad government is not going to come knocking on your door trying to screen you for mental health and then offer you drugs! >> ** It's not so outrageous to think that this could happen. Illinois is the first to put a program in place. Do you really think the drug industry isn't promoting this right now? Look at their involvement in Illinois. They were also involvedin the original Commision (see http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/commission.html) Here's an article and URL: IL Children's Mental Health Plan gives legislators headache Tuesday, August 17, 2004 By The Leader-Springfield Bureau http://www.illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=18658 SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois recently gained national and international attention as the first state to put into law a template for mental health screening that could become a national model for government mandated " evidence-based practices screening " for emotional and social disorders for the state's children. But now, some state legislators are expressing concern that those putting the law into practice are either over-reaching its original intent, or the language of the law is problematic. Last August, Governor Rod Blagojevich signed the Illinois Children's Health Act of 2003. It stated in part: The State of Illinois shall develop a Children's Mental Health Plan containing short-term and long-term recommendations to provide comprehensive, coordinated mental health prevention, early intervention, and treatment services for children from birth through age 18. The Act stipulated the creation of the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership, which is to submit a preliminary plan of action to the Governor on September 30. The Partnership reports directly to the governor. Last month, the Partnership held a series of public hearings around the state to unveil its plan. Recommendations included screening all pregnant women for depression, with in-home visit follow-up. It is the Partnership's recommendations that began raising red flags. State Rep. Patti Bellock (R-Wheaton), a co-sponsor of the original legislation, spelled out some concerns with the plan to IllinoisLeader.com in a prepared statement: After reviewing the Children's Mental Health Task Force recommendations from the preliminary report, I have serious reservations about some of the ways the partnership is translating the intent of the bill. There is considerable misunderstanding about the intent.. I have strong objections to some of the recommendations: 1. I do not agree that all women should be screened for depression during pregnancy and following the birth of a child up to one year postpartum. I also do not agree with extending the Medicaid coverage beyond the 60 days postpartum. There is no mention of pregnant women in SB 1951 at all. 2. I do not agree that all children birth to age five receive periodic developmental screens. I also do not agree with a data reporting state system to track who is screened. This is a violation of privacy. 3. I do not agree with requiring social-emotional development screens with all mandated school exams (K, 4th, and 9th) or a major transition time. 4. I do not agree with report cards on children's social-emotional development, either. State Sen. Lauzen (R-Aurora), who along with all 59 members of the Illinois Senate voted for the final version of the bill, said today, " If this negative interpretation of the Act is accurate, it is personally discouraging to me that this bill could have gone through the hearing process with everybody voting it forward, and none of the true implications of what this bill was all about were understood by many of voting on it. " Lauzen added, " I believe that the last people who should be defining what is normal and abnormal are Springfield politicians, including myself! " Additional concerns about the Children's Mental Health Plan involve potential drug company involvement. " The Children's Mental Health Act 2003 is the tip of an insidious iceberg, " said , a former investigator in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Inspector General and the Bureau of Special Investigations. is now a federal whistleblower who monitors mental health initiatives throughout the country. " The pharmaceutical industry is gaining back door access to all of our children by compromising key decision makers and by gaining rubber stamped endorsements of groups like the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership, " said . The Plan was based upon the report, " Children's Mental Health: An Urgent Priority for Illinois " by the Illinois Children's Mental Health Task Force, a group sponsored by Ounce of Prevention and funded by The Woods Foundation, the charitable arm of & and Janssen Pharmaceutica. The Irving B. Foundation is also credited with start up contributions. This new initiative if enacted, would make Illinois the first state to ratify policies that align systems of care with President Bush's New Freedom Report. The New Freedom Report recommends universal mental health screening of all United States citizens, with an emphasis on school children. © 2004 IllinoisLeader.com -- all rights reserved ============================================== This paper from NAMI also makes the intentions clear: http://tinyurl.com/5rchr The APA (American Psychological Association) elucidates one of the recommendations:: Recommendation 4.4: Screen for mental disorders in primary health care, across the life span, and connect to treatment and supports. " There is growing awareness of the need to better integrate mental health into primary health care to promote overall physical health. Since primary care is often people's only access to health care, it is vital for primary care physicians to screen for mental disorders, which often co-exist with other physical disorders. " " Most families when seeking care for a child first approach their pediatrician or local school for guidance. Likewise, it has been suggested that primary care is the best place for older adults to access mental health screening and referral for treatment. Clearly, screening for depression in primary care could help to prevent the tragedy of suicide, particularly among older adults. In this regard, it has been documented that 75% of older adults who had committed suicide had visited a physician in the previous month. Screening for mental disorders in primary care, with referral to mental health professionals for assessment and treatment, would provide many individuals with critically needed access to care. " ** Please don't take any offense but we're not here to prove anything to anybody or convince anyone of anything. We're here to help people get off psychotropic drugs and recover from them. Your friend will not be convinced of anything she doesn't want to believe. She will not believe that Bush would do anything she would find outrageous. If you want to know more about why the drug industry has been allowed so much privilege in government, and why the FDA constantly defends big pharma instead of the people, type in ELI LILLY AND BUSH at http://www.google.com. Then start reading. Regards, Regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 17, 2004 Report Share Posted August 17, 2004 Dear Glitter, You said: <<And at one time it was proposed that people who had a problem taking their medications mandated by the courts would have a mental health worker come to their house to administer the medications>> ** This is done in some states under the Intensive Case Management program. They need a court order but they get them. C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 18, 2004 Report Share Posted August 18, 2004 Dear nne, I've found the exact information that states " despite their prevalence, mental disorders often go undiagnosed " and recommended comprehensive mental health screening for " consumers of all ages, " including preschool children. According to the commission, " Each year, young children are expelled from preschools and childcare facilities for severely disruptive behaviours and emotional disorders. " Schools, wrote the commission, are in a " key position " to screen the 52 million students and 6 million adults who work at the schools. It's all in here. http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/newfreedom/toc-2004.html Regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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