06/22/05

The American tradition of parents deciding what is best for their children is under attack. The pharmaceutical industry wants universal mental screening for every child in America, including preschool children. But universal screening alone is not what the pharmaceutical industry wants. The real payoff for the drug companies is the drugging of children that will result -- as we learned tragically with Ritalin -- even when parents refuse! The drug companies want your children to be 'screened.' The psychiatric establishment wants to do the 'screening.' And even a recent presidential commission (New Freedom Commission on Mental Health) supports it all. These powerful groups want your children 'screened' -- whether or not you, as parents, give permission...

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from Free Market News Network, by Kent Snyder


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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