Monday, September 13, 2004

A Declaration Of Refusal To Comply With Any New Freedom Commission Mandate For Universal Mental Health Screening Of Children In The Schools
Press release from John Breeding and Wildest Colts Resources, which describes itself as a "resource site for parents, and a challenge to the biomedical mental health industry." The release begins, "Our declaration of refusal is a vigorous response to and rejection of the recommendations of the President's New Freedom Commission on mental health policy in the United States, a health policy that would mandate virtually universal mental health screening, including the 52 million children and 6 million adults in the public schools. We prefer to call it the 'New Intrusion Commission.' Its recommendations are a direct assault on child and family privacy, and a real threat to our children's well-being. Already, about 9 million school age children are on very dangerous psychotropic drugs, all for alleged 'mental illnesses' like so-called ADHD, none of which have been validated as real diseases by scientific medicine. The New Freedom Commission wants to even more vigorously pursue the labeling and drugging of our children, by screening ALL children and adults in the public schools (and elsewhere) for signs of possible 'mental illness.' This really means they are actively pursuing an expansion of the child market for psychiatric pharmaceuticals." See also the Declaration of Refusal at the Wildest Colts Resources web site.