AAPS Speaks Out Against Mandatory MH Screening

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Association of American Physicians & Surgeons

The Voice for Private Physicians Since 1943

1601 N. Tucson Blvd Suite 9

Tucson AZ 85716

www.aapsonline.org <http://www.aapsonline.org>

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*ACTION NEEDED!*

*TELL SENATE TO " JUST SAY NO! " TO UNIVERSAL *

*PSYCHIATRIC SCREENING AND DRUGGING CHILDREN*

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· *Senate meets in lame duck session next week to pass appropriations bill.*

· *Bill includes funding for universal mental health screening &

recommendations for treating children with psychotropic drugs.*

· *Contact your Senators this week and tell them to withdraw this funding.*

· *Click-through to send letter to your Senators in less than a minute.

<http://www.aapsonline.org/alerts/mhalertlinks.htm>*

· *Physicians: Print out flyer for your patients!

<http://www.aapsonline.org/alerts/mhalertlinks.htm>*

· *Please forward this message to everyone.*

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The Senate will re-convene next week in a lame duck session with the

sole purpose of passing an omnibus appropriations bill - work left

incomplete before the elections.

Included in the current version of the appropriations bill is funding

for grants to implement universal mental health screening for almost 60

million children, pregnant women, and adults through schools and

pre-schools.

The bill would fund initiatives of the " New Freedom Commission on Mental

Health, " including a program designed to subject every school age child

in this country to psychological testing and recommendations for treatment.

The House has already voted to appropriate $20 million for the scheme,

and the Senate wants to bump it up to $44 million.

This is a dangerous scheme that will heap even more coercive pressure on

parents to medicate children with potentially dangerous side effects.

Further, even the government's own task force has concluded that mental

health screening does little to prevent suicide.

*/Tell the Senate leadership to remove the funding for grants to

implement the recommendations of the New Freedom Commission in Mental

Health from the omnibus appropriations bill. /*//

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*/Take action now and tell the Senate not to fund any programs that call

for universal mental health screening of our children./*

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*Here's how to help:*

*_EVERYONE:_*

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We now have an easy, one-step way for everyone to send a letter to their

Senators, cour*tesy of the **Health** **Action** **Center** run by

" Citizens for Health. " *

All you need to do is click here.

<http://www.aapsonline.org/alerts/mhalertlinks.htm>

Enter your name and address, and a letter will automatically be sent to

your

Senators, with your signature. It takes about one minute.

*_DOCTORS & HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS_*_:_

If you are a doctor, CLICK HERE

<http://www.aapsonline.org/alerts/mhalertlinks.htm>to download a

one-page flyer to copy and distribute at your office and hospital

starting today!

Association of American Physicians & Surgeons

1601 Tucson Blvd. Suite 9

Tucson, AZ 85716

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www.aapsonline.org