the September Surprise: smirk's check-our-brains-plan (for real)

[donsu]

http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=830

Now Bush wants to test every American for mental illness--including you! And guess who will create the tests?

Next month, President Bush plans to unveil a broad new mental health plan called the “New Freedom Initiative.” Never mind that it couldn’t have less to do with freedom; if you’re a thinking American, this initiative should scare the hell out of you.

The New Freedom Initiative proposes to screen every American, including you, for mental illness. To this end, the president established a New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, to study the nation’s mental health delivery service and make a report. It’s interesting to note that many on the staff appointed to the Commission have served on the advisory boards of some of the nation’s largest drug companies.

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Children and school personnel will be the first to be screened. The panel concluded that schools are in “key positions” to screen the 52 million students and six million adults who work at the schools. By doing this, the commission expects to flush out another six million persons not now receiving treatment. But who will decide the screening criteria? Bush and his people? The drug companies? What are their qualifications?

One recommendation of the commission was that the screening be linked with “treatment and supports,” using “specific medications for specific conditions.” It is no coincidence that the treatments recommended for specific conditions are the newest state-of-the-art treatments that will bring in the most revenues for the drug companies. One of these emerging treatments is a capsule implanted within the body that delivers doses of medication without the patient having to swallow pills or take injections. If a government wanted to exert control of its citizens, think of the implications of using this device.
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the article ends with a warning:

The destruction of America is evident in many ways. Do not be fooled; the Bushites intend to control all they can, and if that can include your brain, they will do it. If Big Pharma benefits, all the better. The New Freedom Initiative is an early step toward both, and $20 million has already been set aside to implement the initiative.

Work now to maintain your grip on your first great freedom, the power to control your own thoughts. Work now to maintain your grip on your secondary freedom of being able to control the approval for your own medical treatments. Ask your congressmen and senators today to put an end to the New Freedom Initiative.




getting a patient hooked on drugs is a doctor's bread and butter and the bushgang's assurance of compliant citizens.

[DebJ]

1. this was posted before, including comments from Freeperville

I thought this was debunked as just a ploy or rumor?

[hippiegranny]

2. how ironic

given the recent columns and books that address dumbya's state of mental health.

[madmax]

3. Please, somebody tell me this is satire. n/t

[calico1]

4. So is he using himself as

a measure of how sane the rest of us should be? Because if he uses the same logic as he does with Kerry's service then that means sane is crazy and vice-versa. :silly:

[asthmaticeog]

5. Assuming this is even for real

where does the money come from? We have money for universal mental health testing, but no money for health care? We can screen kids for mental illness, but we can't give 'em books -- or lunch?

I have trouble buying this.

[Carni]

6. I will refuse this thanks very much

My kid isn't going to be party to it either...what religions exempt you from modern medicine (because I thnk I just proclaimed myself one of those...whatever they are)

It will be a very cold day in hell when the GOP starts poking around in my head and slapping me on drugs.

If I am going to take drugs I will pick them thanks very much!

[Toby109]

7. This isn't one of those stories on DU

that I read and think; naw, there is now way this can be true and then hear it on the nightly news a few days later, is it? Because this is happening a bit too frequently in my view.

[Synnical]

8. New Freedom Commision on Mental Health Recomends . . .

http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/reports/Finalreport/FullReport.htm

Goal 4 Early Mental Health Screening, Assessment, and Referral to Services Are Common Practice

For consumers of all ages, early detection, assessment, and links with treatment and supports will help prevent mental health problems from worsening.

To aid in transforming the mental health system, the Commission makes four recommendations:

4.1 Promote the mental health of young children.


4.2 Improve and expand school mental health programs.


4.3 Screen for co-occurring mental and substance use disorders and link with integrated treatment strategies.


4.4 Screen for mental disorders in primary health care, across the lifespan, and connect to treatment and supports.

[rucky]

10. what's mandatory about this?

from the snip you provided, it sounds like they're just adding mental health to early childhood health screening, which should be available as part of Head Start, etc.

[rucky]

11. in fact, here are the goals of the commission report:

Goal 1


Americans Understand that Mental Health Is Essential to Overall Health.

Goal 2


Mental Health Care Is Consumer and Family Driven.

Goal 3


Disparities in Mental Health Services Are Eliminated.

Goal 4


Early Mental Health Screening, Assessment, and Referral to Services Are Common Practice.


Rucky's NOTE: It says common practice. In what context is what I want to know. That could be interpreted many ways, but if this is the only indication that it will be made manditory, then I may be handing out the lithium myself.



Goal 5


Excellent Mental Health Care Is Delivered and Research Is Accelerated.

Goal 6


Technology Is Used to Access Mental Health Care and Information.

[soothsayer]

9. Just to sell drugs for his buddies Big Pharma n/t