Child Drugging and Mental Health Screening Protests Across the U.S.

Child Drugging and Mental Health Screening Protests Spread

Niagara Falls , New York — July 21-23, 2006 On July 23, Channel 7 News asked: "What was all the shouting about in Niagara Falls this weekend?" The broadcast reported a "spirited" protest during the convention for the "Annual Review of Psychiatry". The protesters were heard in the background shouting, "Hey, Hey, APA, How many kids have YOU drugged today?" Hundreds of tourists from all over the globe, visiting the "Honeymoon Capitol of the World", were handed flyers alerting them to TeenScreen and urging them to sign the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html
Washington, DC—July 1, 2006 TeenScreen protestors gathered at the annual convention of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. NAMI receives massive funding from pharmaceutical companies and is working hand in hand with TeenScreen to promote suicide screening of every child in the United States. The protestors handed out hundreds of flyers about TeenScreen. Passers-by were uniformly opposed to Teen Screen.

		Austin, Texas—June 23, 2006 Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn (right) told reporters at a crowded press conference that she was shocked about the over 100 foster children hospitalized in 2004 due to psychiatric drug poisoning. Strayhorn launched her foster care investigation in 2003, issuing her report Forgotten Children in April of 2004. Finding conditions much worse than anticipated, she and her staff have continued to investigate several problem areas including psychiatric drugging. Lee Spiller, (left) Director of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Texas stated that "our child welfare system is now viewed as one of the major gateways into the mental health system."


West Haven, Connecticut — June 22, 2006 The headline "Groups Protest Medicating, Labeling of Kids" appeared in the The New Haven Register on June 23, 2006. The article spoke of more than 40 members of parents’ rights and watchdog groups from Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island protesting the fraudulent psychiatric labeling and medicinal "drugging" of children. "Don’t label our kids. Don’t drug our kids. Leave our kids alone!" rallied the protestors.


Toronto, Ontario — May 20, 2006 Canadians gave the The American Psychiatric Association's annual convention a warm welcome as 350 protestors showed up to make sure their voices were heard that psychiatric labeling and drugging has to stop. Large cube vans drove back and forth with huge statements such as "Stop the psychiatric drugging of our children NOW!"

Orange County, California—May 10-12, 2006 "Say NO to TeenScreen" flyers were handed out at the three day California PTA annual convention. The flyer detailed the marketing scam to put more children on psychotropic drugs.

Tallahassee, Florida - April 11, 2006 Carole Griffin, President, Eagle Forum Florida, speaks before legislators, voicing her opposition to a bill that would have implemented suicide screening in schools. The bill asked for $600,000 in state funds for a pilot in high schools in four counties. The bill died in a Senate committee.

		Anaheim, California —March 29, 2006 New York City TeenScreen sales personnel were sent to Anaheim, California to deliver a sales pitch to thousands of psychologists from across the nation who were attending the annual convention of the National Association of School Psychologists. They unexpectedly encountered heavy opposition from many protestors at this picket.

Mishawaka, Indiana—January 31, 2006 The Elkhart Truth newspaper reported on Feb. 02, 2006 that protestors carried picket signs outside Penn High School, emphasizing their point for the school not to use the TeenScreen program on their school children. (P.A.T. = Parents Against TeenScreen)

		Nashville, Tennessee—October 29, 2005 Dr. Karen J. Effrem, Pediatrician, EdWatch, spoke about Mental Health Screening: Freedom in Danger. Effrem is a pediatrician, researcher, and conference speaker. She received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, and her pediatric training from the University of Minnesota. She has provided testimony before Congress, as well as in-depth analysis of major federal education, health, and early childhood legislation for congressional staff.

Mishawaka, Indiana, School Board Meeting—February 28, 2005 The School Board Superintendent recommended in front of concerned parents that TeenScreen be suspended pending a thorough study and also recommended that "passive consent" (TeenScreen's attempt to lure more students into their program if parents don't sign a form) be abolished.

Las Vegas, Nevada—August 29, 2005 About 20 people from the Libertarian Party of Clark County, Nevada showed up at county school district headquarters to protest mental health screening of children, reported the Las Vegas Review Journal on August 30, 2005. "Maybe the kid is having a bad day that day. They'll say he's depressed and screen them," said activist Rebecca Iocca.		Washington, DC—February 22, 2006 The National Academies, (Advisers to the Nation on Science, Engineering and Medicine) scheduled a debate for Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006. The topic: "Screening for Mental Illness in Youth: Good Preventive Medicine?". Psychiatrist and TeenScreen founder David Shaffer was scheduled to debate Vera Sharav of the Alliance for Human Research Protection. Shaffer chickened out and cancelled his appearance but Ms. Sharav carried on without him. Sharav: "Dr. Shaffer, the architect of TeenScreen, and its promoters ceaselessly claim that evidence underlies mass screening efforts. If there is evidence, why has he refused to present it?" See Ms. Sharav debate the absent TeenScreen psychiatrist in this video.

Pinellas County, Florida—January 25, 2005 The Pinellas County School Board decided in front of many concerned citizens that TeenScreen should not be implemented there. School Board member Jane Gallucci said that she was angry that Laurie Flynn told a U.S. Senate committee on health and education matters 10 months ago that pilot TeenScreen programs were operating in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. Board Chairwoman Nancy Bostock called the program "an intrusion for our students.'' False labels could embarrass students and cause turmoil at home. "We could seriously do more harm than good," she said.

Pinellas County, Florida - October 22, 2005 Ken Kramer, a public records researcher, has extensively investigated TeenScreen. Kramer says America's children today are faced with a real and present danger. It is a massive fraud being perpetrated on our children. That fraud is called TeenScreen.		South Bend, Indiana - September 16, 2005 Teresa and Michael Rhoades filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the Madison Center, Inc.,a psychiatric facility who screened their child Chelsea with TeenScreen at Penn High School. Teresa always thought of her daughter, Chelsea, as a happy and active student who gets good grades and helps mentor a girl at school. Chelsea came home from Penn High School diagnosed with an obsessive compulsive and social anxiety disorder after taking the teenscreen survey. "I was absolutely outraged that my daughter was told she had these two conditions based off a computer test," said Teresa. (Photo: Teresa Rhoades, right, her daughter, Chelsea, left)

You Can Help Spread the Word about Teenscreen's Plan to Turn Our Schools into Mental Health Clinics We need to act now before our schools become mass drugging institutions instead of educational centers. Send us news of what you're doing to help prevent the spread of TeenScreen in your area. If you don't know what to do, contact us for help. Fill in the contact form on this site and make sure to provide your email address or phone number so we can reach you (this information will be kept private). If there is a demonstration or protest in your area, please take photos of what occurs, then email them to ts_locations@yahoo.com. We'll include as many as we can on this page. This wholesale drugging of America's children must be stopped!