Boy, you can't take your eyes of these guys for second, let me tell you. 
Here's my letter to the editor in response to David Shern's whining in today's Tampa Trib article:
When I see shills for big pharma like David Shern get all weepy about "suicide prevention" my personal Bullspit Detector goes on red alert.
If Mr. Shern, who has deep ties to the makers of the highly addictive and profitable drugs, could have his way, we'd all be getting screened from birth for made-up mental illnesses until we die or our insurance runs out, whichever comes last.
In his dodgy call to action you saw fit to publish, he leaves out a few key facts: a) by actual numbers there is no suicide epidemic in Florida. You're statistically more likely to be hit by lightening if you're a teen. b) Mr. Shern is paid to promote drugs to teens and anyone else he can get them into. Can we really trust his point of view? c) These supposed illnesses that we're all suffering from have no medical basis in provable science. There are no lab tests demonstrating their cause. They are, believe it or not, voted into being out of whole cloth by a show of hands at American Psychiatric Association meetings. d) the drugs recommended after these screenings are "black box warning" drugs. This means they are known by the FDA to cause suicidal thoughts.
So let's see, we have made up diseases, the "treatment" (implying no cure or end in sight) for which is highly profitable and addictive drugs that can actually cause the suicidal thoughts for which we're supposedly screening (but, by statistical measure, are not there).
Let me ask you: does that sound like a recipe for honest help or a never-ending stream of profits for the drug companies?
Here's a better suggestion: David Shern and his pharma-cronies get out of our schools and our homes and go back to experimenting on rats or, for that matter, themselves.
