This is an excellent article illustrating the connection between TV and improper diagnoses, not to mention the lack of science relative to those diagnoses.
Link: Tallahassee Democrat - www.tallahassee.com - Tallahassee, FL..
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January 02, 2006
You Can't Get There From Here
Tampa Tribune is publishing more meaningless drivel about the supposed pharmaceutical breakthroughs relative to depression, suicide, etc.
First of all, there is no suicide epidemic. Period. For example: teen suicides have been going down in numbers since the 80s.
Secondly, the "treatment" being recommended is only about drugs and their profits. Do you see any of these "experts" recommending anything else? A change of diet? Anything? No, you don't. For these pharmaceutical mouthpieces, all roads lead to drugging (aka: addictions to patentable, profit-generating drugs). It's time we realize that and start asking the tough questions that would expose this the science-less scam that it is.
Where I have comment on the article it is below each paragraph. Red text indicates a part of the article on which I'm commenting.
December 15, 2005
Newborns and Toddlers Getting Drugged
This is absolute MADNESS. They are drugging NEWBORNS now? Why are these corporate drug pushers even outside of a jail? Why aren't parents tracking these greedy, pharmaceutical psycho-babbling criminals down and kicking them out of their living rooms, schools and states?! Why is Medicaid letting newborns and infants have black-box warning drugs?
Frankly I'm suprised that parents aren't storming Congress right now demanding that this has gone too far--that OBVIOUSLY this is all about profits because no individual or company would have any other reason for giving DRUGS to an infant, much less a newborn.
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They also reported that 696 Ohio children, ages newborn to 3 years old, received sedatives and powerful, mood-altering, mental-health drugs through Medicaid in July of 2004.
November 18, 2005
TIME Magazine: Taking on the Drug Defenders -- Nov. 21, 2005
Link: TIME Pacific Magazine: Taking on the Drug Defenders -- Nov. 21, 2005.
The SSRIs, in his view, are a story of a "massively successful capitalistic enterprise" - and the idea that in countries like Australia there's still a multitude of people with undiagnosed depression should be considered in that context. These people are "not clinically depressed, anyway," he says. "The drug companies are setting forth an unrealistic vision of what it is to be human. They're defining normal stresses and worries as pathological, and the only reason they're doing it is that it leads to more business."
November 16, 2005
October 24, 2005
Government Drops Corrupt Mental-Illness Drug Program
Link: GAP - Government Drops Corrupt Mental-Illness Drug Program.
Washington, D.C. – The director of the federal government’s mental health agency announced last week that his department no longer endorses the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), a controversial drug treatment regime supported by President Bush.
October 16, 2005
Drug Companies Only Caring About Profits
"The pharmaceutical industry is not your friendly neighborhood pharmacist. These are multinational corporations with a cool eye on the bottom line, which is making money. They have made blockbuster drugs out of chemical compounds that not only are no more effective than what is on the market, they have evolved a deadly side effect profile that is more deadly than the existing drugs."
Link: Allen Jones.
October 12, 2005
EvansMediaUSA :: Health: Parents Against TeenScreen
Another blogger hitting the nail on the head. Teenscreen is getting exposed more and more in the blogosphere and as far as I'm concerned it's not enough. Parents need to know that sooner or later this is going to affect their children. Pharmacorps won't rest until they have every American citizen, starting with children, hooked on their addictive, mind-altering drugs. No other industry has the lobbying organizations that the pharmas have. Period. The last vestige of protection these poor kids have are we parents and we're going to have to fight for it folks.
Start by spreading the word and telling parents you know about the sites mentioned in this article.
He Said It, Now I Don't Have To
Here's a fellow blogger regarding Teenscreen and what he thinks should happen to those who are behind it.
October 11, 2005
A prescribed threat - Los Angeles Times
It astonishes me that more people haven't made the connection between childhood drugging and abusiveness later in life.
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